Dave Cannon: 30 Years Without Missing A Shot 

(Editor's Note: The PGA of America recently announced that Dave Cannon has been named the organization's second Lifetime Achievement Award winner in photojournalism. In recognition of the announcement, GGP+ reprises this story on Cannon that originally ran Oct. 29, 2019.)

At many of golf’s big events of the past 30 years, one figure has not only been present but quite often front and centre stage. Once seen, this rangy figure is rarely forgotten. He is tall, slightly stooped under the burden of camera equipment that weighs as much as a young child and includes a lens the size of a bazooka. He is nearly always inside the ropes, roaming restlessly up and down the fairways or making a pell-mell dash from one side of a green to the other.

This figure is Englishman Dave Cannon, 64, golf’s preeminent photographer who has covered more than 100 major championships, taken millions of photographs, travelled the equivalent of circling the world 100 times and spent more than 5,000 nights in hotel rooms. Yet he might be best known by many wh...