The Return of Ross Bridge

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The 18-hole course at Ross Bridge recently reopened following a course repair project after a 100-year blunder no one could have seen coming.

The Mike Keiser Method

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The people who’ve worked with Mike Keiser, golf’s most successful developer, explain how he gets it done right.

Best Public Golf in Utah

Utah is one of those states where good golf is thought to exist, but few can really say for sure. Here are 10 of my favorite courses.

Book Review: “Tiger, Tiger” by James Patterson

James Patterson deals mostly in fiction, of course, but the author of 114 New York Times bestsellers also has a growing number of biographies to his name. His diverse range of subjects includes an Egyptian child king (Tutankhamun); valiant ER nurses, combat veterans, and members of the police force; notorious newsmakers like Jeffrey Epstein, Aaron […]

Deciphering the Hole Names at Royal Troon

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The five Scottish courses that made it into the first edition of the World Atlas of Golf, published in 1976, were the Old Course at St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Royal Dornoch, Muirfield, and Turnberry. Royal Troon didn’t make the cut. The 2008 edition, published by Hamlyn, did include Royal Troon, but the first couple of sentences […]

The Massacre at Winged Foot: Hale Irwin’s Win at the 1974 U.S. Open

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It’s been 50 years since the USGA turned the West Course at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York into a golfing minefield. The course setup isn’t the only remarkable memory of the 1974 U.S. Open, though. A flushed long-iron approach at the 72nd hole to secure a major championship tends to be spoken of […]

13 Years Later: Bill Coore Reflects on the Restoration of Pinehurst No. 2

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Of course they were honored—which golf course architect wouldn’t be? Of course they were humbled—again, would anyone whose vocation in life was to build, renovate, and revive great golf courses not question if they were up to the task, if only for a moment? And yes, of course they were a little nervous about the […]

Book Review: “RAINMAKER” by Hughes Norton & George Peper

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RAINMAKER: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf, from Tiger Woods to LIV and Beyond is one of those books that had to be written. Libraries, stores, and stalls are full of volumes that entertain, inform, educate, cure, encourage, comfort, instruct, empower, and generally make the world a better place, but not all […]