Links Living: Silvies Valley Ranch
The future of sustainable living is as bright as the star-filled skies at this authentic Western ranch and resort If you think living off the grid has to mean moving to the wilderness, building a cabin, raising your own food, and disconnecting from the world and its luxuries, it’s time for a rethink. Silvies Valley […]
Links Living: McLemore
Atop Lookout Mountain in northwest Georgia, this master-planned community wows with views from its clubhouse, golf course, and homes The cliff-edge Highlands Course at the McLemore mountaintop community in northwest Georgia sits 2,300 feet above sea level. Tee off at the break of day and you’ll start your round above a sea of clouds and […]
12 Best Opening Par Fives in Golf
As he did with the Los Angeles Country Club’s North course, site of the 2023 U.S. Open, George Thomas Jr. preferred to kick off his course designs with a par five. So did post-World War II design great Dick Wilson, who started Bay Hill and Doral’s Blue Monster in that fashion. While a surprising number […]
Book Review: “Golf Architecture for Normal People” by Geoff Shackelford
Geoff Shackelford’s 10th golf book (he also wrote a tribute to champion racehorse Zenyatta in 2011) probably won’t sell enough copies. That’s not to say it won’t sell plenty; it will—the author’s words are indisputably authoritative and invariably entertaining. It just won’t sell enough. Not all 70 million golfers worldwide will buy a copy, though […]
What is Your Reaction to the Merger Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf?
Matching Golf’s Most Noteworthy Architects With Their Hollywood Equivalents
Visionaries, craftsmen, and taskmasters, golf course architects and movie directors share many of the same talents—and temperaments Amateur golf architect George Thomas never emerged from a barranca yelling “Cut!” And he never audaciously insisted on cutting up a marble floor to get his strategic angles just right, a bit of legendary assiduousness attributed to a […]
Golf Writer Geoff Shackelford – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 143
Golf writer Geoff Shackelford joins the LINKS Golf Podcast to discuss the release of his latest book, Golf Architecture for Normal People. Shackelford also dives into his involvement in the restoration of Los Angeles Country Club’s North course and tells the audience what to watch for as the venue hosts its first U.S. Open. At […]
10 Top Double Greens in the U.S.
Among the many unique aspects of the Old Course at St. Andrews, it has seven double greens. So, 14 of its 18 holes have a shared green. In a previous story, we highlighted 10 of the top dual greens in the U.S.—examples in which a single hole has two separate putting surfaces. But what about […]
Great Courses of Britain & Ireland: The Berkshire
Less well known than some other heathland courses west of London, this club’s two Herbert Fowler layouts deserve their due In a 2018 essay titled “A disappearing landscape: The heathlands of the Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey borders,” Alan G. Crosby of the British Association for Local History wrote that at the beginning of the 18th […]
Have You Ever Broken a Golf Club?
