Top Courses You Can Play Near Major College Football Bowl Game Venues

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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”

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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

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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 […]

Want to Play Pine Valley?

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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 […]

Golf Gadget Gifts for the Holidays

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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 […]