The Full Scoop on Bandon Dunes’s New 5th Course – The Sheep Ranch
By Ian Critser While on a recent trip to Bandon Dunes, we had an unusual resort guest sit next to us at breakfast one morning—Ben Crenshaw. While listeners of the LINKS Golf Podcast will have already heard about this encounter in Part 1 of our Bandon Dunes episode, most won’t know the actual reason he […]
Links Living: Belfair
The site of this year’s PGA Professional Championship, this private golf community in South Carolina’s Lowcountry is also debuting a Sports & Lifestyle Campus No stranger to hosting championship events, Belfair boasts two acclaimed Tom Fazio-designed courses, both perennially ranked among the best residential courses in the country. For more than 12 years, this private […]
Links Living: Talisker Club
With a collection of venues and amenities in Utah’s Park City, this four-season private club continues to enhance its one-of-a-kind offerings for members For some, it’s about the golf. For others, it’s a lifestyle with plenty to offer off the course. At the all-seasons Talisker Club in Utah’s Deer Valley, a year-long menu of outdoor […]
Who Really Designed Bethpage Black?
By Tony Dear A while ago, we asked who deserved the credit for how a golf course turns out—designer, design associate, construction foreman, re-designer, restorer, renovator, shaper, superintendent, some of the above, or all of them. It’s an especially pertinent subject at Bethpage Black as a question mark hangs over the identity of the […]
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 […]
The Best Course I’ve Never Played
By Adam Schupak As the old American Express tagline suggested, membership has its privileges. For some big-name golfers, celebrities, architects, and administrators, membership in the game’s A List means access to the cathedrals of the game. As Wayne Gretzky put it, “I don’t mean to sound egotistical, but since I’ve retired I’ve played Augusta, […]
Six of Golf’s Best 19th Holes
One year at the Masters Tournament, my wife and I were sitting with Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and his better half, Claiborne, at an evening function when he told me that Alister MacKenzie’s original drawings of Augusta National included a 19th hole for settling tied matches. He told me I better fact-check this when I […]
LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 20 – New Course at Bandon Dunes (Oregon Trip Pt. 2)
Hosts Graylyn and Ian discuss the news that Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is adding a new course to its lineup. The duo got a sneak peek of the course from a distance on their last trip to Oregon and in this episode they describe the details of the project. They also interview Bandon Dunes character […]
My Top 5 Bucket-List Golf Experiences
At only 24, I’ve been very fortunate to have already been exposed to some of the best experiences golf has to offer. I’ve played venerable U.S. Open venues weeks before they hosted the tournament, walked the hills of Augusta National during the Masters, played classic courses restored to their former glory, and interviewed legends of […]
Questions: Ray Floyd
The winner of the 1986 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills—and a Hamptons summer resident for over 20 years—recalls the pressure of that week but hasn’t forgotten what it was like to win his first Tour event, 23 years earlier Q. You won 22 times on the PGA Tour. What do you remember about your maiden victory, which […]
