Loopers: The Caddie Movie
The documentary Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk took almost three years to make, an 80-minute project driven by interviews with several of golf’s biggest names and visually-gripping visits to some of its grandest sites —Augusta National, Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, St. Andrews, Carnoustie, and Ballybunion among them. But landing Bill Murray’s involvement as the narrator […]
Bandon Dunes’s Junior Bandonista Program
By Erik Matuszewski When Ryan Page took a work-related road trip from Seattle to San Francisco with his wife and four kids last summer, he made a point to squeeze in a couple days at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on the rugged Oregon coast. Or, as he calls it, Daddy Disneyland. The Kaysville, Utah, resident […]
State of the Game – Do You Know How Healthy Golf Really Is?
If you’re reading this newsletter, chances are you’re a fairly passionate golfer. You’ve probably played several times this year. Maybe you’ve taken a few lessons or have been practicing in earnest, champing at the bit to test that latest swing tip on the course. Perhaps you’ve been planning another annual golf trip that brings old […]
A Year-Long Golf Road Trip—Patrick Koenig
Pulled over on the side of a lonely stretch of road in North Dakota, with twinkling stars overhead, Patrick Koenig swatted a dozen or so golf balls into the darkness from the makeshift driving range atop his RV. Make that his RGV: recreational golf vehicle. You might think playing close to 450 rounds at 405 […]
Where Would Coore & Crenshaw Be Without Kapalua?
Just imagine a golf world without gems such as Sand Hills, Bandon Trails, Cabot Cliffs, Friar’s Head, and Streamsong Resort’s Red Course. Such a scenario might have been reality if it wasn’t for the success of the Kapalua Resort’s Plantation Course in Hawaii, which shut down in February 2019 for a nine-month renovation costing upwards […]
5 Most Expensive Golf Companies
As we move into a New Year, eagerness and opportunity abound for golfers. The PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando later this month is always an annual hotbed of new releases, and the beauty of golf is that there’s a wide range of price points for entry into the game. It’s why you can go to […]
Who’s Buying in Golf Communities Now?
There’s no such thing as typical anymore, whether you mean the buyer or what it is they’re looking for One of Jack Nicklaus’s most unusual course designs—and he’s laid out more than 400—boasts the snow-capped Wasatch Mountains as a stunning backdrop. But rather than building a course that would play fast and firm, Nicklaus went […]
How McConnell Golf Saved Some of the South’s Oldest Clubs
By Erik Matuszewski The Country Club of Asheville has a rich history as one of the first 100 private clubs founded in America and lays claim to be the oldest of its kind in North Carolina. It’s anchored by a championship Donald Ross golf course and boasts a bucolic setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains. […]
A Dream Southwest U.S. Golf Road Trip
When my parents moved from the East Coast to the Monterey Peninsula several decades ago, it opened up a new golf frontier for me, spurring several golf trips in and around 17-Mile Drive and the Carmel Valley. More recently, they bought a new home in the Southwest, on the outer fringes of the ever-expanding Phoenix/Scottsdale […]
Miura Golf – Rapidly Evolving While Maintaining its Roots
Ask most golfers about high-end golf clubs in the U.S. and you’ll get an earful about PXG, whether its complimentary or critical. But another manufacturer with a far deeper history in the game has been actively trying to make inroads in this niche of the equipment market: Miura Golf. So far, so good. In the […]
