7 Superior Caribbean Resorts with Equally Great Golf
When you set your sights on the Caribbean, where a bevy of beachside resorts provide ideal settings to soak up the sun, don’t forget your sticks—some of those properties are also home to exceptional golf courses. Here, we spotlight seven Caribbean destinations with notable golf. Aurora Anguilla – Anguilla The island of Anguilla is […]
First Peek: Brambles
With the help of Coore & Crenshaw, James Duncan is introducing the UK model to California wine country Golf course architect James Duncan—a 20-plus-year associate of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw who grew up in Denmark and Scotland—has long dreamed of bringing something to America that resembled the best clubs in the UK. Specifically, a […]
Top Public Golf in San Francisco
The City by the Bay is a great city in which to play Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner once called San Francisco “49 square miles surrounded by reality.” The area of this city pressed between ocean and bay may be limited, but the number of golf facilities available to the public is not, and for […]
What Do You Use To Mark Your Ball On The Green?
10 New Golf Shoes in 2023
Some of these forthcoming shoes are focused on stylish aesthetics; others are packed with new technology. But all are guaranteed to bolster your time on the course. Here, we turn the spotlight on 10 new golf footwear styles that will be stepping to the first tee sometime in 2023. FootJoy In some respects, FootJoy’s newest […]
George Peper: A Call for Kinder Golf Courses
Having suffered through a generation that produced some regrettably brutish golf courses, we may now be in remission Thirty-five years ago, when George Bush famously called for a “kinder, gentler nation,” at the 1988 Republican Convention he was referring to the overall state of American society, but he could just as well have been talking […]
The Best Lesser-Known Courses at Pinehurst
Pinehurst Resort is one of the biggest golf properties in the world with 11 courses, including one of the game’s most iconic layouts in course No. 2. For many golfers, that storied course defines Pinehurst itself, the site of multiple U.S. Opens as well as the 1936 PGA Championship and 1951 Ryder Cup. Payne Stewart’s […]
Golf Podcasts: The New Voice of the Game
Podcasts provide golf addicts with fresh perspectives—as anyone with a microphone and internet access can become a storyteller It started in 2017 on a golf trip to Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Trail. This was the first time Mike Shade and Eli Strait—two golf-obsessed college friends in their mid-30s—planned a big buddies’ golf getaway. As a […]
The 10 Fiercest Golf Course Names in the U.S.
The very best golf course names accurately depict their settings and entice you to play. Think Pebble Beach, or the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. Some course names entice you with prospects of comfort, such as California’s Friendly Hills or Nebraska’s Happy Hollow. Other course names are more forbidding. Either they repel by […]
Better Golf Destination—Ireland or Scotland?
