Why PGA Tour History Matters

If you don't know where you've been, you can't tell where you're going. Just ask Phil.

I recently made a trip to the Bay Area to promote my book, Uncorked, The Life and Times of Champagne Tony Lema. I posted a book signing event on Facebook. The posting attracted a comment that read:

“I'm trying to figure out how someone who wrote about a golfer from the 1960s is in any way relevant today.”

As a golf historian that specializes in the 1960s …