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Bill Fields

Bill Fields

Joined: Jan 1, 2021

Fields has covered golf since the mid-1980s, spending much of his career with Golf World magazine as an editor and writer. In recent years, he has contributed stories to various outlets including espnW.com, PGATour.com, The New York Times, The Met Golfer and Golf World (U.K.). Bill has covered more than 100 men’s major golf championships along with dozens of women’s and senior majors. He also is an experienced photographer, having shot dozens of golf tournaments, and continues to pursue that passion through personal and fine-art projects. Email: williamhfields@gmail.com; Twitter: @BillFields1

Bridging golf’s generation gap
Golf

Bridging golf’s generation gap

It’s not easy comparing champions from the 20th and 21st centuries, but one quality spans the divide: Winners respect winners, no matter the era

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LPGA seeks to expand its global footprint
Golf

LPGA seeks to expand its global footprint

Talks with Ladies European Tour could boost women’s golf

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Beard leaves mark on golf with write stuff
Golf

Beard leaves mark on golf with write stuff

Frank Beard celebrates his 80th birthday on Wednesday, a milestone that those of us who grew up watching professional golf in the 1960s and ’70s might find hard to fathom. (CBS Golf Classic, anyone?) Businesslike and bespectacled, Beard didn’t stand out f

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Dad has the honor this week in Orlando
Golf

Dad has the honor this week in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. — Not every golfer has a father who plays the game, but many dads do. Mine came to golf in middle age after I took it up as a kid, and it was the best gift I ever gave him. We played a lot but competed together only once, when I was 18, on t

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Woods vs. Snead renews its timeless aura
Golf

Woods vs. Snead renews its timeless aura

Yachts large and larger were docked at Albany in the Bahamas last week, one of them, “Privacy,” belonging to the host of the Hero World Challenge, Tiger Woods. It wasn’t the best of weeks on the course for Woods in the limited-field event that supports hi

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Tour elite feel heat as playoffs tighten
Golf

Tour elite feel heat as playoffs tighten

NORTON, Mass. – Among multimillionaire golfers or those nearly so, pressure is, of course, a relative thing. Having your season end a couple of weeks early sure isn’t like someone on the way up playing for a hundred bucks when all he has in his pocket is

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Lietzke, 67, loved off-season, not practice
Golf

Lietzke, 67, loved off-season, not practice

There is a popular saying in golf that if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. No doubt that maxim has motivated players throughout history – shag bags to launch monitors – to practice hard in pursuit of improvement. But Bruce Lietzke was an e

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Senior PGA, like entrants, stands up to time
Golf

Senior PGA, like entrants, stands up to time

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – Late Sunday afternoon after the conclusion of the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, someone will experience one of the best workouts in the game when he is handed the trophy. Alfred S. Bourne bought the eponymous prize from Tiffan

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Walk-up music gives PGA Tour a new beat
Golf

Walk-up music gives PGA Tour a new beat

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Villain in victory: Can Reed win over fans?
Golf

Villain in victory: Can Reed win over fans?

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Too much of a good thing in golf
Golf

Too much of a good thing in golf

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Skinner’s event aims to help stymie breast cancer
Golf

Skinner’s event aims to help stymie breast cancer

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