Bayonne Golf Club

At this club just across the harbor from Manhattan, old meets new as the links-inspired layout transports golfers across the Atlantic Ocean

Wallasey Golf Club, England

Known primarily as the birthplace of the Stableford scoring system, this club outside Liverpool deserves notice for its layout along the Merseyside coast

Western Gailes Golf Club, Scotland

A young course architect found inspiration for his first design at a lesser-known strip of raw, heaving linksland along the west coast of Scotland

Letter from St. Andrews: A Prince of a Day

In an intratown showdown, the cagey veterans of the R&A employed an unorthodox strategem—eight pre-round drinks—to defeat their younger, stronger, and more talented opponents from the University of St. Andrews

Letter from St. Andrews: Pretenders to the Throne

2010 just may have the greatest lineup ever for major championship sites, and each of the four courses lays claim to a heritage of links golf. But according to our man in St. Andrews, only one is the real deal.