6 Trends in the Private Golf Community Industry
What’s trending now—and what could be next at your private golf community Putting Parks As the popularity of large-scale putting courses has risen at golf resorts across the country, it has become a trend among private golf communities, too. Boot Ranch’s 34-acre Practice Park is complemented by the largest green in Texas: Opened in 2017, […]
Classic Courses: Oak Hill Country Club (East)
This perennial major venue has returned to its Donald Ross roots in time for its next closeup When it comes to pedigree, the tournament résumé for Oak Hill—the more-than-a-century-old club with two Donald Ross designs outside Rochester, N.Y.—is undeniable. Its East Course is a six-time major championship host and the 1995 Ryder Cup battleground and […]
First Peek: CapRock Ranch
Part rolling hills, part climactic cliff sides, this new private design could challenge the best in the Sandhills How to describe the latest golf course design from Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner in northwest Nebraska? In a word: different. The opportunity to build in the Nebraska Sandhills, next door to the Prairie Club where Hanse […]
10 Questions: Bill Coore
Bill Coore, the lead partner of golf’s top design team, talks about the people, courses, and books that lured him away from an intended career as a classics professor Where did you learn the game? I grew up in rural North Carolina and was introduced to golf by my neighbor; we made up holes between […]
Questions: Mike Whan
Mike Whan, the USGA’s new top dog, talks about his plans (listen), his goals (learn the Rules), and his time leading the LPGA (it grew every year) How are you and your family feeling about the move to New Jersey? I’m really excited to live on Hamilton Farm—a course where we played an LPGA event […]
All 18: A Photo Tour of Congaree Golf Club
Tom Fazio’s Congaree Golf Club—modeled after the courses of the Australian Sandbelt—is built for the ground game, characterized by firm and fast conditions, slippery runoffs into hazards, sharp bunker edges, and plenty of sand. Built in 2017, the private club, nestled 45 minutes inland from the South Carolina coast, has no rough, instead featuring 130 […]
First Peek: American Dunes
Jack Nicklaus’s sandy new design in Michigan is a celebration of the red, white, and blue In 2018, Air Force fighter pilot Lt. Col. Dan Rooney approached his boyhood hero, Jack Nicklaus, with a dream: to revamp Grand Haven Golf Club into golf’s most patriotic experience, with all profits going to his Folds of Honor […]
5 Things to Know About Congaree Golf Club
Since opening in 2017, Congaree Golf Club has been one of those courses that holds a certain lore in the golf world—many have heard, but few have seen. Tucked away in a quiet corner of the South Carolina Lowcountry, the Tom Fazio design debuted as Golf Digest’s “Best New Private Course” in 2018 and recently […]
The Pros Recommend Your Order of Play at the Country’s Premier Golf Resorts (East)
You’ve booked a trip to one of America’s major golf resorts for a marathon golf vacation. You don’t know when (or if) you’ll be back, so you definitely want to play every course on the resort menu. The question is: If you’re tackling all of them in one trip, in what order should you play […]
Sand Valley: America’s Next Great Golf Resort
Bountiful Barrens: Less than five years old, Sand Valley is already America’s next great golf resort—and so much more Gazing out on an August evening from the back porch at The Lodge at Sand Valley, I found it difficult to imagine what this land must have looked like just 10 years ago, before more than […]
