Premier Properties: The Abaco Club on Winding Bay
Abaco, The Bahamas A quiet refuge from the world, The Abaco Club on Winding Bay is a tropical paradise in a setting so beautiful that words and photos hardly do it justice. Yet it is just a 45-minute flight from Fort Lauderdale. This is a true sporting club that includes the No. 1 golf course […]
Premier Properties: Hamilton Grand
St. Andrews, Scotland The golf world’s most coveted address is one you can now call home. In 1895, the world was treated to the Grand Hotel, a lavish sanctuary built by Thomas Hamilton set by the 18th hole of the Old Course. Today, this iconic building, one of the most famous landmarks in St. Andrews—that […]
Kohanaiki, A Piece of Hawaiian Golf Perfection
When you create the first new private club community on the Big Island of Hawai`i in nearly a decade, you’d better get it right. Kohanaiki, on 1½ miles of sun-drenched shoreline along the Kona Coast, has hit the mark—and then some. Open just four years, Kohanaiki boasts one of the island’s very best golf courses […]
Top 10 Courses in Pennsylvania
Here are our top 10 courses in the state of Pennsylvania: OAKMONT, Oakmont The host of a record nine U.S. Opens remains what its founder Henry Fownes intended it to be—a thorough examination in golf whether your handicap is 36 or plus-6. MERION (EAST), Ardmore Merion was hailed at its debut as “the finest […]
Knowing Catherine Lacoste – Winner of the 1967 Women’s U.S. Open
By Susie Burning I came to the 1967 U.S. Women’s Open, at the Cascades course of the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Va., feeling confident. I’d won twice that year, including just two weeks earlier, and my game was in good form. Besides, I loved the whole atmosphere of the Open. Back then it […]
The Best Par 3 in Scotland? Hopeman GC Says So…
By George Peper I thought I knew something about golf courses—and Scottish links courses in particular. So imagine my surprise earlier this year, while on a visit to St. Andrews, when a headline in one of the local pennysavers trumpeted the “Best Par-3 in Scotland” on a course that rang only the faintest of bells. Hotfooting […]
Portstewart Golf Club, a Place Worthy of Praise
By Nick Edmund Too long in the shadow of its northern neighbors, this renovated links has earned another look The country of Northern Ireland is smaller than the state of Connecticut, and yet in recent years has produced three major champions: Darren Clarke, Graeme McDowell, and, of course, Rory McIlroy. It can also boast […]
The Perfect Golf Trip to Pensacola, Florida
By George Peper Far away from the “other” Florida, you can find the ideal combination of good golf, good food, and great prices Pensacola is one of the thousands of U.S. towns named after its Native American settlers. It’s also a lilting, fun sort of word, a word that trips off the tongue, impossible to […]
Top 10 California Golf Courses
In addition to the breathtaking views, California features some of the best golf in the country. Here’s our top 10 California golf courses. Cypress Point, Monterey In a word: location. Alister MacKenzie’s organic use of the Monterey Peninsula’s coastal dunes has three jaw-dropping oceanside holes. The par-three 16th is one of golf’s most fearsome holes, […]
Royal Portrush Prepares for 2019 Open Championship
By George Peper Unfurled across a rocky rampart of Northern Ireland’s Antrim Coast, the Dunluce Course at Royal Portrush is blessed with one of the game’s most idyllic settings, and its architect, the redoubtable Harry Colt, crafted a links that is equally arresting, making full use of dramatic natural valleys, ridges, and plateaus. Among its […]