Conaway: Discovering true joy in a game. Again.
Tom Whitman chips onto the green out of a sand trap on hole number one at Overton Park Golf Course. The course has been completely redesigned and is now open to the public. (Houston Cofield/Special To The Daily Memphian)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
Golf began for everyone in Memphis in Overton Park in 1906 with the opening of the Overton Park 9, the city’s first public course.
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