10 Great Risk/Reward Holes
The label “risk/reward” is applied liberally to golf holes these days. Probably too liberally. Look at any course’s hole descriptions and you’re likely to see it appear at least a handful of times. In reality, there’s risk involved in every swing, and reward to be earned anytime a shot is successfully executed. Strategy comes into […]
Golf Destination: Puerto Rico
There are two kinds of Caribbean golf vacations. One is the kind where you choose an island, choose a resort, then hole up there for a few days to play golf, lounge on the beach, enjoy rum drinks with umbrellas in them, and just chill. You can do that in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rico […]
Top Push Carts in 2023
Walking has been central to the game of golf from its beginning, when distinguished gents sporting jackets and ties were accompanied on their rounds by eager young caddies clutching armsful of hickories. Many players today still prefer walking—and why not? It’s good exercise, and a lot more social than bombing around in a motorized buggy. […]
Words of Wisdom: Legendary Irish Course Architect Pat Ruddy
Born in 1945, Ireland’s Pat Ruddy was bitten by the golf bug at an early age. As a youngster, he’d catch rides on tractors to play at a little 9-hole course in South Sligo that rented its land from a local farmer. Later, he graduated to playing County Sligo Golf Club (aka Rosses Point), and to […]
A Brewery with a Golf Course: Tree House Brewing Serves Up Tee Times
New England’s Tree House Brewing is rolling out another barrel of fun—a brewery with a golf course The people at Tree House Brewing Company know a thing or two about greens. One of the company’s flagship New England IPAs is called Green, and over the years that hazy, citrusy, hops-rich nectar has given rise to […]
The Long Game—Not Just a Golf Movie
If it weren’t a true story, you wouldn’t believe it. But the events that author Humberto Garcia chronicled in his book, Mustang Miracle—and that director Julio Quintana captures in his new film, The Long Game—are based on events that actually happened when a group of Mexican American high schoolers decided to take up golf in […]
The 10 Toughest Greens at Augusta National
A better title for this article might be “The 18 Toughest Greens at Augusta National,” because the reality is that every putting surface on this storied course can give players fits. It all depends on where the hole is located and where a player is putting from. Long putts, short putts—it doesn’t matter. Twenty-footers can […]
Top 10 Tracks in Tasmania
They say golf’s become a global game. But in truth, that’s been the case for well over a century. And believe it or not, one of the earliest places—if not the earliest place—in which the game formally took root outside of Scotland was Tasmania, the 26,000-square-mile island located 155 miles off the southern coast of […]
Notable U.S. Courses Turning 100 in 2023
A lot was going on in 1923. Despite Prohibition, the “Roaring Twenties” were in full swing. Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president. Hank Williams was born, along with Charlton Heston and George Patton. The iconic Hollywood sign made its Tinseltown debut. And the New York Yankees played their first game at Yankee Stadium, just months […]
Naples Golf: Paradise Glossed
Naples stakes a claim to golf heaven The Florida peninsula is endowed with 1,350 miles of coastline, and many stretches of that shore have been tagged with catchy names like The First Coast, The Space Coast, The Gold Coast—each with its own cleverly crafted backstory. When the Naples, Marco Island, and Everglades Convention and Visitors […]
