Articles by Michael Croley

September 5th, 2024

Holy coach: How did a minister raise four PGA Tour winners from one high school?

The numbers get you close to a story but are too indifferent to describe a life. From 1997 to 2008, King Oehmig might have been the most successful high school golf coach in America. At his alma mater, Baylor School, a private boarding and day school in Chattanooga, Tenn., Oehmig’s teams won 21 state championships. Read more…

June 7th, 2024

Why I spread my brother’s ashes at Pinehurst No. 2

Golf was a strange game for my brother to play. It was not a typical sport for athletes in our hometown. Golf was a country club game, and we were not country club kids. Both our parents had grown up in a sort of desperate poverty that I think, to them, made joining the country Read more…

October 24th, 2023

Nolan Krentz: Driven

Nolan Krentz played more thank 18,000 holes last year. Nearly all were on his local nine-hole course. It wasn’t enough. We can’t figure out what makes him so… driven.

April 14th, 2023

‘A 100 years ago, I had no chance.’ A glimpse of Pinehurst’s 10th course and the woman shaping it

As a golf-course shaper, Angela Moser says her ability to blend natural landscapes with formed ones has been her gift.