Ekwanok Country Club, Vermont
The Old Man’s design debut remains the unsurpassed paragon of golf in the Green Mountain State
Interlachen Country Club, Minnesota
When Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open, Interlachen Country Club etched its name in American golf history. With his victory, Jones set golf partisans on edge. He was already the British Amateur and British Open champ that year, and the Grand Slam was within reach. The fact that Interlachen hosted the U.S. Open […]
White Bear Yacht Club, Minnesota
By Josh Karp In 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, spent the summer—or at least part of it—living in a rented room at White Bear Yacht Club. Located 20 miles northeast of St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald’s hometown, the club seemed a perfect place to swim, relax and play golf in a quiet […]
The Honors Course, Tennessee
By Lee Pace The entrance to one of the nation’s finest golf clubs sits anonymously off a state highway about 10 miles northeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee, down the road from a strip of burger joints and convenience stores. Only a keycard properly inserted or a call via speaker box to the front desk—and someone has […]
Metairie Country Club
The New Orleans of 1922 was booming. Streetcar carryed residents from Uptown, Metairie or Gentilly to the bustling business district by day, and when night fell, to the jazz clubs that would change the country’s music history. Ships entered the ports carrying sailors eager for landfall, and riverboats docked near the French Quarter. Perhaps […]
Prairie Dunes Country Club, Kansas
Long before Sand Hills captivated golf purists, this outpost was the paragon of the links game in America’s heartland
Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, Nevada
Lake Tahoe surely is one of the most spectacular settings you’ll ever find for a golf course. Measuring 12 miles across and nearly 1,000 feet deep on average, these blue waters are so pure you could spot a golf ball 75 feet below the surface (and if you did, it would probably be one […]
TPC Snoqualmie Ridge
The TPC designation lends golf courses a certain cachet. The oft-challenging TPC layouts share a number of recurring design features: risk-reward par 4s; grassy mounds and swales; tightly mown chipping areas; and at least one short-but-dangerous par 3, which often seems to appear at the 17th hole (a la TPC Sawgrass). Surely one of the […]
Lake of Isles Golf Resort, Connecticut
Given its location in southeast Connecticut, along the densely populated New York City-Boston corridor, the opening of the Foxwoods Resort Casino nearly 20 years ago wasn’t much of a gamble. In fact, it’s just minutes off I-95, so there was no hassle at all to taking the exit and making a slight detour. Neither was the opening of […]
The European Club, Ireland
If playing a links is an experience to be cherished, what must it be like to actually develop, own and operate such a course? Pat Ruddy’s demeanor indicates it is a pleasant experience indeed. A bear of a man who always has a warm smile, a welcoming hand and a flash of wit, Ruddy […]
