Steve Sailer: iSteve

The Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August 2016 will feature golf for the first time since the early 20th Century. Professional golfers tradit...

Judging from today's Google searches, the whole world is suddenly interested in my 2001 UPI article on how the Nabisco ladies' golf...

Looking back over a long enough period of time, you can see how golf course architecture in America followed the same general stylistic ...

Enough election politics for now. Back to my August sports kick. Roger Federer comes into the U.S. Open with a record 17 victories in tenni...

Back in 2004, USA Today published a list of the approximately 300 members of the Augusta National Golf Club. The list was probably from a...

The subjects of country clubs, Jews, and Jewish country clubs are interesting and somewhat important because old resentments and guilts rela...

From my Taki's Magazine column : Augusta National is to aspirational Gentile corporate executives what Harvard is to ambitious high-...

Three years ago, I blogged about how the culture of the bond rating companies, such as Warren Buffett's Moody's, had been very slo...

A decade ago, Annika Sorenstam was doing a lot of weightlifting*, and pulled away from other women golfers, becoming probably the best woman...

To get ready for the 2012 Masters, the New York Times has an article on why there are so few black caddies anymore: " Treasure of Golf’...

I've long been interested in the topic of municipal coups, in which somebody overthrows a corrupt and incompetent local government and ...

A distinguished reader points to this from CNN : New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is worried that high U.S. unemployment could lead to ...

Scottish golf fans are among the most discerning fans in all of sports. Watching the British Open on TV can be disconcerting because what th...

I've noticed that when I read the obituaries of prominent people in New York Times, I always check the last paragraph to see how many gr...

From the Washington Post : After months of public anticipation [really?], President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) have se...

Update:  Mickey Kaus  points to a 2004 Los Angeles  article  by Ann Louise Bardach suggesting the mother of ex-California Gov. Arnold Schwar...

Yesterday, Tiger Woods withdrew in pain after playing the first nine holes of the The Players' Championship in 42 strokes. (Hey, I'v...

With the PGA Championship returning this week to Whistling Straits, a spectacular pseuo-Irish Pete Dye golf course on Lake Michigan north of...

Charles Murray jumps into the golf stat discussion by pointing out how individual skills tend to be distributed along bell curves, but extr...

Your Lying Eyes quantifies an issue that a lot of sports fans have felt about golf since the emergence of Tiger Woods in 1997: that golf wo...