Following a detour through bracken and whin, McKellar returns to the short grass with a pocketful of scratched-up golf balls—and a fantastic crop of new stories. Issue #8, like its predecessors, will surprise and delight with its eclectic coverage of the game—at all levels of play and in every corner of the globe.
On the cover, Scottish broadcaster Andrew Cotter pens an amusing account of his efforts to combine golf with exercising his dogs. Striding the fairways of Delamere Forest GC with Olive and Mabel, whose shenanigans became famous online during the pandemic, Cotter sketches out moments that will be familiar to any dog lover, as well as a few lessons at the end that will resonate with any golfer.
Further afield, Oliver Horovitz (author of “An American Caddie in St Andrews”) travels to Bolivia to get to know the cholitas, La Paz GC’s female course workers, who have developed a deep and enduring love of golf. Accompanied by first-class original photography by Michael Dunn, Horovitz puts a human face on the challenges confronted by Indigenous peoples in contemporary Bolivian society, and how they use sport to find both joy and solidarity.
Following the competitive scene, Mike Clayton runs down the 2024 majors, while Scott Michaux profiles Ryan Frazer, who has carved out a fascinating niche within the junior-to-college golf pipeline. Meanwhile, co-founder Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the late Fred Solomon, who for years led a guerrilla campaign against the broken math of the World Amateur Golf Ranking from a small office in San Francisco.
As always, these are just a few of the entertaining and illuminating stories that fill the pages of McKellar. Whether you’re a newcomer or a longtime reader, we’re confident you’ll find much to enjoy.