Six of the Most Interesting Driving Ranges in Golf
I tend not to hit more than a dozen balls warming up before a round of golf. Like many golfers, I might joke with those next to me that my good shots are limited, so why waste them? But during my travels I’ve come across a number of unique or unusual practice ranges where it’s […]
A First Look at Hoiana Shores Golf Club
The newest course in the world’s fastest-growing golf market is open for limited preview play, and those lucky enough to get an early look at Vietnam’s Hoiana Shores Golf Club are in for a unique treat. For starters, the Robert Trent Jones Jr. design doesn’t have any flapping flags to help golfers deal with the […]
Quebec: European Golf Right Next Door
After hopping into a golf cart just outside the main entrance of the Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, the winding, uphill drive to the golf course clubhouse takes several minutes and traverses well over a mile before you get close to the first tee. Scenic views abound along the way, but once reaching the clubhouse’s hilltop […]
A Tour of Payne’s Valley
By Erik Matuszewski As our dusty camouflage utility vehicle squeezed past several excavators on one side of the gravel path behind Big Cedar Lodge’s Mountain Top clubhouse, a group of workers armed with compressed-air devices called air spades was on the other, painstakingly clearing dirt and rock from a wall of limestone outcroppings. Minutes […]
Unrivaled Access—Pine Valley’s Crump Cup
Editor’s Note: The tradition of the public being allowed to attend the Crump Cup on the Sunday of competition week has been suspended. Every year, groups of devoted golf fans make a pilgrimage to Georgia for the annual Masters Tournament. It’s a rare opportunity to stroll through one of the most picturesque and historic golf […]
Unrivaled Access—Pine Valley’s Crump Cup
Every year, groups of devoted golf fans make a pilgrimage to Georgia for the annual Masters Tournament. It’s a rare opportunity to stroll through one of the most picturesque and historic golf courses in the world—one that 99.9 percent of golfers won’t ever get the chance to play themselves. Now imagine if you could experience […]
Rock Spring Club: A Raynor Course You Can Play—For a Little While, at Least
The list of Seth Raynor golf courses open to public play is agonizingly short. Quietly, however, there’s now one tucked in a metro area with more golfers than any other in the country. The historic Rock Spring Club in West Orange, N.J., is so close to New York City that it has views of the […]
The Golf Trip Mistakes You’re Likely Making
By Erik Matuszewski Tucked away somewhere in the attic over my garage is an old golf travel case—you know, one of those rigid plastic coffins designed to protect golf clubs from damage at the airport. I upgraded my travel bag years ago and never looked back, opting for a soft, padded model with rolling casters […]
How Has the Golf Instruction Landscape Changed in the Digital Revolution?
Michael Breed is only half-joking when he says he can’t even count the number of people he’s helped improve their golf swing in an elevator or with a spatula in the kitchen. His untold number has exploded again over the past decade, especially because golf instruction doesn’t always involve hitting a golf ball in today’s […]
The 5 Most Underrated Golf Countries
Golf is truly a global game, with courses spread across 209 of the world’s 249 countries—from American Samoa to Zimbabwe. There’s even a nine-hole golf course on remote Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, a volunteer-run tropical layout that usually has more red land crabs on its fairway than golfers. Still, the sport is fairly […]
