TEChnical Advancements

Joe Assell - GOLTEC
TIME IN A BOTTLE: GOLFTEC Co-founder and CEO Joe Assell stands amid a display showing highlights from the company’s first 25 years. Assell attended Mississippi State University hoping to find a way to forge a career for himself in the golf industry. Photograph by E.J. CARR

GOLFTEC started in a basement—now, after 25 years, it’s known around the world. And with new innovations on the horizon, the future looks bright.

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Born to Fly

Mlis Ward
Mlis Ward
FRIENDLY SKIES: After leaving the Air Force, M’lis Ward joined United Airlines, eventually becoming the first African-American female captain in commercial aviation history.

When she was a child, M’LIS WARD leaped off garage roofs — it was just a preview of the heights she would eventually attain.

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Oh, the Places We’ll Go (Someday Soon)

Anthony Cotton

By Anthony Cotton MY YOUNGEST SON lives in Phoenix, where he, of course, has a bevy of fantastic golf courses at his disposal. However, that didn’t stop him recently from hopping in his car with a buddy for a quick jaunt out to San Diego to tee it up. I have to admit to feeling … Read more

A Wary, Weary Co-Existence

Anthony Cotton

By Anthony Cotton IT IS A TRICKY line to walk these days, being a lover of golf in 2020 amid the novel coronavirus. You walk into a pro shop wearing a mask—a tacit acknowledgment that the horrific disease that has savaged the world is still very much in our midsts—only to remove it and revel … Read more

Love and Basketball and Golf

AJ and Lindsay Kuhle
AJ and Lindsay Kuhle
Photographs by JAMIE SCHWABEROW/CLARKSON CREATIVE

With an extended family of their DU women’s golf and Valor Christian High School boys’ hoops teams included in the mix, the household of coaches Lindsay and AJ Kuhle doesn’t lack for competitive spirit.

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The Siren Song of Competition

Anthony Cotton, Editor, teeing off

By Anthony Cotton IT’S A TALE as old as time, or at least as old as sport—the great athlete who longs to jam and rock out in front of a sold-out stadium, or the singer who can’t wait to take his cuts alongside big leaguers in a major league batting cage. Is it some kind … Read more