Tony Dear, Author at LINKS Magazine

LINKS Q&A: Mike DeVries on Newly Opened 7 Mile Beach

Architect Mike DeVries speaks on 7 Mile Beach, a new links golf experience in Tasmania, where the 18-hole South Course is now open.

Parkland is generally associated with a specific type of golf course—deciduous trees, lush turf, heavy soil, fairly minor elevation changes.

These six highly recommended golf books will keep the golfer happy this holiday season—and four more are worth pre-ordering.

They may not have become bad, necessarily, but restoring famous bunkers has made a lot of the game’s best holes great again.

Golf collector John Morton traveled over 4,000 miles in 24-hours to retrieve a rare treasure—an authentic Old Tom Morris feathery golf ball.

Here are three things we’d forgotten about that odd, yet somehow remarkable, Masters Tournament in November 2020.

Each of us has our own favorite golf clubhouse—but are those places worthy of being on Mount Rushmore? These four probably are…

Here are 10 people who have helped bring us some of golf’s most impassioned and super-heated moments in the Ryder Cup.

We asked five architects, who have been doing great work for many years, when they decided they wanted to design golf courses for a living.

You’ll often hear words like “connecting”, “blending”, and “concealing” when the subject of tie-ins comes up in golf architecture.