Expanded Content: June/July 2020 Met Golfer
Extra Content from the June/July 2020 issue of The Met Golfer
Met Methods: The Tuxedo Club's Joe Condomitti demonstrates how to deal with tricky lies in the rough and get you safely back in the fairway (or on the green!). Watch
Cooking and Coktails with Rockrimmon: Rockrimmon’s executive chef Peter Dunlop shares classic recipes to cook at home through the club’s “Chef Peter’s Pantry” guides, while beverage manger Maurice Ryan serves up cocktail recipes through “Maurice’s Cocktail Chronicles.”
Chef Peter's Panty: Quarantine Cooking Made Easy:
Maurice's Cocktail Chronices:
Photographer Paul Lester’s book of photographs, "Beyond the Fairway", collects images from his decades spent up close and personal with golf’s best. Image Gallery
Can you imagine dedicating your life to documenting everyone else? That question is posed by Jim Nantz in his foreword to Paul Lester’s collection of timeless images, "Beyond the Fairway" (Ultimate Books, $29.97).
Nantz writes that Lester was born with an enormous talent, a gift that is a mixture of art and documentary. Lester’s career as a golf photographer spans more than five decades – Ryder Cups, Skins Games, the majors, you name it he’s shot it – and his photos have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest and ESPN The Magazine, among others. For the first time he has gathered his greatest hits, a who’s who of the game and those who love to play it – from Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio and Clint Eastwood to Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson all the way to Nancy Lopez and Tiger Woods. He tells the backstory behind many of the photos, too, such as the time “Mr. 59” Al Geiberger told him to stand still and he’d chip balls over his head. Also included in this 95-page easy-to-digest read are Lester’s photographs of U.S. presidents on the links dating back to Gerald Ford.
Readers of The Met Golfer may remember the Centennial of Golf awards, a black-tie affair held in New York City in 1988, at which Lester the lone photographer; he captured a rare photo of Jack Nicklaus and Hogan, as well as several of the all-time greats all dolled up. Perhaps the best image of all is one of Arnold Palmer in his later years wrapping his left arm around Gary Player during a reunion and caught in full laughter. As Nantz so eloquently puts it, Lester has a sixth sense to capture a moment at the precise time, and this book illustrates how he did so time and time again.