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 […]
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 […]
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 […]