How do Golfers Judge a Great Golf Course?

If we look closely at the characteristics of the highly rated courses, it’s easy to start drawing conclusions about what is and is not perceived as good by golfers, or at least the subset that gets to participate in the ranking process. Two characteristics that many of the top courses share are sandy soil and […]

David McLay Kidd on Making Golf Fun

I designed Bandon Dunes in the late 1990s as a 20-something Scotsman, unsullied by the American fixation with course rankings, real estate values, and critics’ opinions. Raised in Scotland, the son of a greenkeeper, I knew what made golf fun: It was simplicity with a twist, a strategy laid out in front of the golfer […]

Top 5 TPC Courses You Can Play

With the return of PGA West’s infamous TPC Stadium Course to the Career Builder Challenge this week, here are the best layouts in the TPC Network open to the public

Equipment Review: Parsons Xtreme Golf

Given the sluggish state of the golf industry, you’d have to be very rich, an out-of-the-box thinker, and perhaps a bit crazy to start a club company now. Have you met Bob Parsons? The man who created GoDaddy.com in 1997 and is reportedly worth more than $2 billion launched PXG—for Parsons Xtreme Golf —last year with the […]