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The 10 Most Influential American Golf Courses You Can Play

If you’re seeking the best of the best and don’t have private club access, here are the top 10 influential American golf courses you can play.
Top Courses You Can Play Near Major College Football Bowl Game Venues

For hoopla, pageantry, tradition, and partisan fanaticism, few sporting events anywhere stack up with college football’s major bowl games. Sure, critics chirp that there are too many bowl games these days, and that an expanded College Football Playoff system threatens to diminish the stature of these games even further. For now, however, the prospect of […]
Billy Horschel is “Figuring it Out”

Against a backdrop of obscene gobs of cash for an inferior product (we’re looking at you, LIV), overtures from boorish lads who suggest their patriotic pride is for sale (ungrateful Ryder Cuppers), and a PGA Tour hierarchy that thinks the way forward is to separate the elite from the riffraff (Signature Events, for shame), there […]
The Chain: A Preview of Streamsong Resort’s Fourth Course

Forget what you know or what you may have experienced at Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s most famous short courses, namely The Sandbox at Sand Valley and Bandon Preserve at Bandon Dunes. Both courses encapsulate fun, and they both implore golfers to think strategically, even on holes that may peak at only 63 yards in […]
Do You Have Any Golf Superstitions?

Want to Play Pine Valley?

Is this a bait-and-switch? Admittedly, yes. Sorry about that. I’m a lifelong New Jersey resident who’s always lived about an hour from the hallowed grounds of Pine Valley Golf Club and the nation’s perennial top-rated course… and has yet to play it. Sure, I still hold out hope. That’s what we do as golfers—hope and […]
Where Do You Play Golf During The Winter Months?

Golf Gadget Gifts for the Holidays

For many players, golf represents an all-too-infrequent opportunity to leave our tech-ridden “smart-world” behind, spend time with friends, get some healthful exercise, and commune with nature on playing fields as beautiful and varied as species of birds. But there’s no doubt that the right tech can also enhance your enjoyment of the game—and make you […]
Reimagining The International: Coore & Crenshaw’s Plans for Country’s Former Longest Course

When news broke in early 2021 that Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, and other key members of the Coore & Crenshaw design team, would be redesigning the Pines Course at The International in Bolton, Mass., it was unclear at that time how much, if any, of the existing course would be repurposed in those efforts. […]