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Will Bardwell lives Mississippi. It would be easy to drop an “in” before “Mississippi,” but that would water down the point. Those four words define who he is, how he lives, and what he values. Bardwell is an attorney that specializes in civil rights litigation. If you know an attorney, especially a litigator, you recognize an inexhaustible passion for language. During the stress of a trial, it’s critical to cast off all the words that might<\/em> convey a point, in favor of the one word that does<\/em> convey the point. Bardwell takes his linguistic talents to his golf site, Lying Four<\/em>, where he writes about golf in Mississippi, golf people in Mississippi, and the occasional sojourn beyond the state lines. It’s our pleasure to start 2021 with a quick nine interview with Will Bardwell. After you read his words, visit his site, where you shall find original thoughts and stories about golf in the Deep South<\/em>, written by a fifteen handicap; in other words, one of us.<\/p>\n

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1. Introduce yourself and discuss how you got into golf as a yute (I hope you get the reference.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, I didn\u2019t really get into golf until I\u2019d grown up. My stepfather was a golfer, and I remember going to a scrubby little par-3 course with him one time and really enjoying it \u2014 but that was pretty much the extent of the golf I played as a kid. I got a little deeper into it when I started college, but it was still just owning a cheap set of clubs and swinging at balls on the driving range every now and then. It wasn\u2019t until I turned 30 that I got more serious about it. I got fitted, started taking lessons, started practicing, and all that. I\u2019m still not very good \u2014 I break 90 about as often as often as I don\u2019t. But I\u2019m minimally competent now, and that\u2019s really all you\u2019ve really gotta be to have fun with it.<\/p>\n

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2. You don’t give much away in the “About” section of LyingFour.Com. “Civil Rights Attorney by day” leads us toward your enthusiasm for language, which comes through immediately, no matter on which article we break the seal. How do your “by day” and “by night” endeavors collaborate to fulfill your destiny?<\/strong><\/p>\n

God, that\u2019s a really good question. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever thought about it quite that explicitly. But it has always bothered me that there\u2019s a gap in our country between its promises and its realities. And the reason I went to law school was that I wanted to be part of bridging that gap \u2014 trying to help make our country a fairer, more just place for everyone. And I think about golf writing the same way: the stories I\u2019m most interested in are the ones that shine a light on the gap between golf\u2019s image of itself and its reality. Golf is a great game, but the reality is that it\u2019s still wildly inaccessible for a lot of people. And there\u2019s no way that\u2019s gonna change until golf is honest with itself about those problems. When I\u2019m working on the stories that I think are most important, my hope is that I\u2019m holding a mirror up to golf to show people a part of the game that they haven\u2019t seen or thought about before.<\/p>\n

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3. You’ve succeeded in distilling the trajectory of your site to four meaningful categories: Stories, Places, Conversations, Wanderlust. Do us a solid and break down the purpose behind each heading.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, originally it was just three categories: Stories, Places, and Conversations. The Conversations category was for Q&As with people that I thought were interesting and wanted to talk to; the Places category was for under-the-radar golf courses that I wanted to tell people about; and the Stories category was for more long-form, feature-type stuff. And eventually I added a Wanderlust category that\u2019s basically just the Places articles but about less affordable options. I don\u2019t do a ton fo traveling, but I wanted to have a reason to write about those courses too. I mean, Pinehurst No. 2 is never going to be considered an affordable option, but it\u2019s one of the best golf courses in the world, and I wanted to have an excuse to write about it \u2014 so I created an excuse.<\/p>\n

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4. You’re not shy (nor editorial) about letting salty language enter the conversation you have with your subjects. Does that put them at ease, and free them up to speak in their authentic voice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I try not to overdo it, but it\u2019s just how people talk. I mean, when Rob Collins is describing the Road Hole at the Old Course and says \u201cyou hit over a fucking hotel\u201d \u2014 then, as a writer, don\u2019t you lose something by cutting that out of your story? Profanity is kind of like salt, right? Too much is gross and unbearable, but a little bit can go a long way. My first job out of college was writing sports for a tiny daily newspaper in east Mississippi, and one of my editor\u2019s rules was that everybody had 10 exclamation points to use per year. You could use them any way you wanted: in a quote, in a column, in a headline, whatever. But you couldn\u2019t do it more than 10 times per year. And his reasoning was that it only grabs people\u2019s attention if it\u2019s rare. And I try to use the same approach toward profanity in my writing. If you overdo it, then it loses its potency; but if you\u2019re not gratuitous about it, then it can be a valuable writing device.<\/p>\n

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5. Final question on language, then we’ll get back to golf. It would be too easy to suggest Faulkner as a literary spirit guide, given the Mississippi connection, so we shan’t. Instead, who have been your linguistic mentors, living or dead, and what do you find compelling or necessary about them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

God, it\u2019s hard to answer a question like this without coming off like a jackass. But I\u2019ll try. Honestly, when I think of great writers that I\u2019ve tried to emulate, the first person who comes to mind is Curtis Wilkie. Curtis was a national political reporter for the Boston Globe for 25 years, and then moved back home to Mississippi to teach journalism at Ole Miss. His first semester teaching was my junior year, and it was the best class I took in college. He has an economy to his writing where he\u2019s not using any more words than he has to, but he still manages to be really descriptive. He wrote a memoir called \u201cDixie\u201d that is just incredible, and he wrote another one about 10 years ago about a judicial corruption case in Mississippi called \u201cThe Fall of the House of Zeus.\u201d They\u2019re both unbelievable. I also love Cormac McCarthy, although 2020 has been a little too dark already to heap any of his work on top of it.<\/p>\n

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6. What inscrutable elements of a golf course should be obvious to every golfer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well the most important element of a golf course\u2019s design is also the easiest to understand: are you having fun? If you\u2019re having fun, then it\u2019s probably a great golf course. If you\u2019re not having fun, then chances are it\u2019s not a good course. I remember walking about Mossy Oak in northeast Mississippi with a buddy of mine who was playing it for the first time, and I kept wanting to ask him what he thought of the course, but he wasn\u2019t playing very well so I didn\u2019t have a lot of opportunities to sneak in the question. And finally, unprompted, he said, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m not playing worth crap, but this course is so much fun.\u201d The more golf courses you can find that are fun, the more you can start to put your finger on what design elements you find fun: maybe you like centerline bunkers or maybe you hate them, or maybe you like crazy greens or maybe you hate them. But to me, the thing I enjoy most about visiting objectively great golf courses is that you can think afterward about what exactly you liked, and then take that back home and look for lower-profile places that have some of the same features.<\/p>\n

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7. What siren song brings you to play a golf course?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny you ask that, because I think I only figured that out this year. It occurred to me that golf is a form of meditation. It allows you to block everything else out and focus singularly on the task in front of you, whether it\u2019s hitting the left side of the fairway or getting a putt started with the right speed or whatever the task of the moment is. The older I\u2019ve gotten, the more I\u2019ve come to value those opportunities to get away for a few hours and just clear out my head. And you can get that out of a round of golf no matter how good or bad you are.<\/p>\n

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8. If you were going to make an impact on Brazen Head, a course that calls to you, what features would you insist be clear and present?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accessibility, more than anything else. When you talk about communities that traditionally haven\u2019t had access to golf \u2014 people of color, folks from low-income backgrounds \u2014 Jackson is home to a lot of those folks. They deserve a great, affordable public golf option, and right now, Jackson really doesn\u2019t have that. Hopefully, Brazen Head will be the sort of place that brings together a lot of different people from a lot of different backgrounds and gives them a chance to get together when they otherwise wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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9. What question haven’t we asked, that we damn well should have? Please ask it (don’t hold back) and answer it, and thank you for your time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you want to hear my Pinehurst take?<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, here\u2019s my Pinehurst take. I think Pinehurst is unbelievable. I\u2019m crazy about the whole area, especially the resort. But the resort\u2019s portfolio of courses is way too top-heavy. No. 2 is one of the best courses in the world, obviously. And No. 4 is really, really good \u2014 not on No. 2\u2019s level, but a worthy companion. After that, though, you face a pretty steep drop-off. A lot of people like No. 8, and if you like Fazio, you\u2019ll enjoy it \u2014 but to me, it\u2019s just OK. And I know No. 3 has gotten some good attention since its facelift a couple of years ago, but I wasn\u2019t crazy about it. No. 7 is average. Basically, you\u2019ve got No. 2 and No. 4 \u2014 and after that, you\u2019re sort of wasting your time, because a round spent on one of the other courses is a round that you could be spending on a vastly superior golf course. On top of that, Pinehurst has a bit of an identify crisis: it bills itself as a traditionalist throwback, but the resort\u2019s best elements \u2014 the No. 2 restoration, the No. 4 reboot, the Cradle \u2014 all of that has happened in the past 10 years. So ironically, you\u2019ve got this place that bills itself as your grandfather\u2019s home away from home, but its best offerings have all come when the resort has leaned into innovation. And I wish they\u2019d do more of that. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a reluctance to getting too far away from the traditionalist vibe, but I think there\u2019s room to do both. For example, you could blow up No. 5 and No. 6 and do some really cool, cutting-edge stuff over there, and there\u2019d still be more than enough offerings for folks who enjoy the more Twentieth Century, country clubbish kind of thing.<\/p>\n

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