The MacKenzie Golf Bag Company Is Back - Now owned by 10-year golf industry veteran Todd Rohrer, the Mackenzie Golf Bag Company is once again producing its handcrafted, full-grain leather golf bags--and playing a supporting role in Golf in the Kingdom: The Movie. Click here (and scroll to the middle of the new page) to read more.

The Serendipity of Shivas - Read what happens when a skeptical journalist discovers that golf is more than just a game [click here >>>].

Clint Eastwood & Shivas Irons, the Movie
In 2001, Clint Eastwood intended to produce a movie version of Michael Murphy's Golf In the Kingdom, having bought the film rights to the book a long time before that. He even considered Sean Connery for the starring role.
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Shivas Lives!
Reprinted verbatim from Travel & Leisure Golf:
Golf's best-selling work of fiction by far is Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy's 1972 novel about a philosophical young player and Shivas Irons, the mystical golf professional he encounters in Scotland. Finally it looks as if someone might make a movie of the book.

Over the years, several studios and even Clint Eastwood have owned the rights, but the transcendental nature of the material made it a tough sell. Now some investors, including Murphy and people associated with the nonprofit Shivas Irons Society, have acquired the rights and plan to film this fall at Oregon's Bandon Dunes. Expect lots of bagpipes and a lyrical feel, but not Sean Connery. At seventy-four, the longtime favorite to play the athletic Irons would need more than the spiritual force of True Gravity to be convincing.
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The Endearing Man In Tweed
Herbert Warren Wind, one of golf's true gentlemen -- and one of its finest writers -- has departed us. His legacy is as formidable as his long, accomplished career.
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What is Enlightenment: An Interview With The Filmmakers
What Is Enlightenment magazine recently sat down with Mindy Affrime and Susan Streitfeld, who offered an update on the cinematic version of Michael Murphy's best-selling book, Golf in the Kingdom.  Discover how Affrime and Streitfeld "...are embracing the formidable creative challenge of bringing Aurobindo, enlightenment, and integral ideas to a medium more accustomed to surf, sex, and Schwarzenegger." -- WIE.org
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