If you follow professional golf, the names inside the ropes are household names. As a journalist covering the sport, Ron Green, Jr. is one of the most respected names inside the ropes and in the industry.

This year, Green, Jr. was named the 2023 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism by the PGA of America. He is the 32nd recipient of the award. His 93-year-old father, Ron Green Sr., won the award in 2006 for his own golf coverage and was a longtime Charlotte Observer sports columnist. They are the first father-son duo to separately win the award.

On a recent trip to one of his favorite golf destinations, Pinehurst, N.C., Green Jr. ventured into the Paradise in the Pines podcast to talk about this year's Masters, the upcoming PGA Championship and U.S. Open, how his father influenced his career, what it was like covering the 1982 North Carolina Tar Heels national championship run featuring some kid named Michael Jordan and much more.

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