The Best Architect You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
Mike DeVries has been quietly, but steadily, building a reputation for designing great courses He’s been interviewed on Golf Channel and designed a course in the world’s top 25. His star is unquestionably on the rise. Yet, Mike DeVries remains something of an unknown. Unless you’re in his home state or halfway around the world, […]
Envyscapes: The Company That Can Build Your Dream Custom Practice Green
Whether you’re an LPGA Tour superstar, a student at an iconic university, or just someone with a little extra space in your backyard, chances are you might have heard of Preston Moon and his synthetic grass company Envyscapes. A former shaper with Arnold Palmer Golf Design who got started in the business with his father […]
First Peek: Sheep Ranch
Bandon Dunes’s best-kept secret is a secret no more The fifth, and likely the final, 18-hole layout at Bandon Dunes—perhaps the most highly anticipated course in the world since its announcement in 2019—debuted on June 1. For years, the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch sat hidden away from visitors to Bandon Dunes on an oceanfront plot […]
Union League National Channels Pine Valley, Calusa Pines, and Tobacco Road for Golf Course Overhaul
The first thing that catches your attention at Union League National Golf Club is a soaring, 60-foot sand dune, if only because it stands in such stark contrast to the pancake flat topography of the southern New Jersey shore region. But the dune is just the most visible part of this stunning, multi-year, multi-million-dollar project […]
Links Living: Seabrook Island Club
This barrier island community blends laid-back coastal living with easy accessibility to the charms of Charleston, all while preserving the natural beauty of its surroundings Barrier islands, so called because they protect the mainland from storms and erosion, dot the Southeastern U.S. South Carolina is home to 35 of them many of which are well […]
American Dream Courses: Midwest (West)
In a land made up predominantly of plains, pastures, prairies, and relatively few golf courses (1,435 over an area of roughly 520,000 square miles), you might assume rattling off a dozen that fit into our American Dream Courses criteria—good, inexpensive, welcoming, under-the-radar, special in some way—would be pretty straightforward. It actually threw up a number […]
Characters: Alastair Johnston
While running Arnold Palmer, Inc., for more than four decades, Alastair Johnston amassed an incredible golf library that he is now giving back to the game he love In his native city of Glasgow on the west coast of Scotland, Alastair J. Johnston is known, in the local vernacular, as a “bluenose.” In this city […]
LINKS Golf Podcast Episode 57: What Does the Data Say About the Golf Business in 2020?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Participation on the rise? A new trend in golf travel? National Golf Foundation Chief Business Officer Greg Nathan joins Digital Editor Al Lunsford to talk through a recent update on the state of the golf business from the NGF on the Season 6 premier of the LINKS Golf Podcast. You can subscribe to the LINKS […]
Caddying During the Pandemic—Yay or Nay?
Entering August, Tony Shuster had caddied for 20 days in a row at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. He totaled 847,000 steps during the month of June and another 789,000 in July—upward of 800 miles in all. Shuster is one of almost 350 caddies shepherding golfers around the six 18-hole courses at the remote, walking-only destination […]
Destination Kohler Adding New Short Course Facility
One of the country’s great golf destinations is planning to make a splash with the development of its new short course facility. Desination Kohler, the Kohler, Wis., resort that is home to four Pete Dye golf courses in Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run, is introducing “The Baths of Blackwolf Run”—featuring a 10-hole par-3 course, a […]
