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Nobody likes listening to a golfer tell it shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing from writing an account of a kamikaze attack to our current position within global sports leader TNT Sports—we discarded stories and episodes that were merely popular or fun in favor of those that had lasting effect. An editorial moment had to ripple for years afterward in the way Golf Digest or the golf world operated, or even media at large.
That's why senior editor John P. May quietly deciding in 1961 to try photographing Ben Hogan with an 8-millimeter motion camera, which birthed our interactive and digitized modern swing sequence analyses, gets the same nod of importance as when we upended tempers at the PGA Merchandise Show in 2004 with our first Hot List ranking of clubs. We also didn't spare our embarrassments, such as when in 2010 the cover story "10 Tips Obama can take from Tiger" landed the same week revelations of Woods' personal life busted the Internet and a fire hydrant.
Thank you for being a member of the Golf Digest community. We hope you enjoy the stroll down memory lane of this special club that predates us all.
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