Premier Properties: The Abaco Club on Winding Bay
Abaco, The Bahamas A quiet refuge from the world, The Abaco Club on Winding Bay is a tropical paradise in a setting so beautiful that words and photos hardly do it justice. Yet it is just a 45-minute flight from Fort Lauderdale. This is a true sporting club that includes the No. 1 golf course […]
Premier Properties: Hamilton Grand
St. Andrews, Scotland The golf world’s most coveted address is one you can now call home. In 1895, the world was treated to the Grand Hotel, a lavish sanctuary built by Thomas Hamilton set by the 18th hole of the Old Course. Today, this iconic building, one of the most famous landmarks in St. Andrews—that […]
Sun Safety on the Golf Course
For all the fun you can have in the sun, it also poses serious health risks to the skin and eyes. But you can play it safe by understanding the risks and taking simple precautions. Skin “One out of every five Americans will get a skin cancer,” says Dr. Thomas Rohrer of Skin Care Physicians […]
Links Living: The Reserve Club
The perfect mix of solitude and convenience, this private community blends harmoniously with its desert surroundings If you crave seclusion and serenity in a private golf club and residential community, The Reserve Club in California’s Coachella Valley should be high on your list of places to ponder. Minutes from the Rodeo Drive of the Desert, […]
Links Living: Colleton River Club
Despite two engaging courses from two of the game’s masters, this community cherishes its peace and quiet The size and serenity of Colleton River Club is the first thing visitors notice as they make the four-mile drive in from the community’s gate. The road winds through untouched wilderness into the 1,500-acre property until it nears […]
100 Years of Pebble Beach: In the Beginning
By James A. Frank In 2019, Pebble Beach Golf Links will celebrate its 100th birthday and host its sixth U.S. Open. To commemorate these milestones, each issue of LINKS Magazine and LINKSdigital between now and then will tell the unique story that is Pebble Beach. Those articles will also be shared here on our website. […]
First Green Teaches Kids Environmental Benefits of Golf
When Steve Kealy hosts a First Green field trip, he likes to send the kids home with an incentive to protect water quality in their homes and surrounding neighborhoods. “I teach them about storm water and waste water,” says the 27-year Superintendent at Glendale Country Club in Bellevue, Wash. “And I give them four things […]
A Long Golf Weekend in Michigan
By Graylyn Loomis My first visit to Michigan was a master class in course architecture in which I helped to rebuild one course, played another with the designer, and stayed at a third with the team that had built it. I made the trip to Canal Shores, Forest Dunes, and Stoatin Brae with LINKS contributor […]
Quivira Golf Club – Los Cabos, Mexico
By Graylyn Loomis Thirty years ago, Los Cabos was a sleepy town at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula known, if at all, primarily for sport fishing. It was around then that Jack Nicklaus visited Mexico for the first time, to build what would be the first of his six courses in the […]
Kohanaiki, A Piece of Hawaiian Golf Perfection
When you create the first new private club community on the Big Island of Hawai`i in nearly a decade, you’d better get it right. Kohanaiki, on 1½ miles of sun-drenched shoreline along the Kona Coast, has hit the mark—and then some. Open just four years, Kohanaiki boasts one of the island’s very best golf courses […]
