Articles by Curt Sampson

April 3rd, 2024

Masters 2024: The Masters champion who couldn’t read or write

In cool, muted April sunlight and the exhausted atmosphere of just-completed competition, four warriors in golf clothes sat amid a group of gray-haired men in green. Fifty-five years ago, the closing ceremony of the Masters presented an interesting tableau. While an Augusta National muckety-muck addressed the crowd, the new champ grinned a goofy grin, and Read more…

May 15th, 2018

Trinity Forest promises to be the US PGA Tour’s most intriguing venue

The AT&T Byron Nelson isn’t just changing courses, it’s changing course.

August 24th, 2017

Signs Of The Times

What’s the difference between kids getting autographs and professional chasers doing the same thing? Billions of dollars.

May 29th, 2017

How would modern tour pros do hitting Ben Hogan’s old clubs? We had them try, and it wasn’t pretty

Ben Hogan died 20 years ago, but for a few hours on Tuesday he lived again on the practice tee at Colonial.

May 17th, 2017

A final Byron Nelson at TPC Las Colinas will bring tears for some

The opening ceremony at the Byron Nelson Classic used to present a particularly dramatic tableau: among the double handful of dignitaries arrayed in the plaza between the TPC Las Colinas pro shop and the Four Seasons hotel sat the man himself.