Golf Trip Essentials + Youth on Course – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 136
On this episode of the LINKS Golf Podcast, co-hosts Al Lunsford and Joe Passov list the items they won’t leave home without when packing for a golf trip. Later, Al and Joe interview representatives from Youth on Course, a non-profit organization that provides junior golfers unprecedented access to some of the country’s best courses. This […]
Golf’s Most Exhaustive Tests
Bethpage Black is golf’s ultimate taxing test Some golf courses challenge with gargantuan length, others with a parade of hazards. Add slick, undulating greens, fairways squeezed by long grass, and targets shrunk by stiff breezes and you have some of earth’s toughest courses. A select few among those brutes will flat out exhaust you by […]
5 American Golf Resorts with Multiple, Unique Hotels
Golf resorts are naturally judged first by the quality—and also the quantity—of their courses. Yet, some of the best are further distinguished for their numerous hotels and the distinctive guest experiences that they provide. Sure, there are resorts that supplement a lodge or inn with cottages or villas, but we wouldn’t consider those distinct hotels. […]
Which Tee Time Do You Prefer—First Out On The Course Or Last Out?
10 Best Public Coore & Crenshaw Courses
Bill Coore, a longtime golf course architect and Ben Crenshaw, a two-time Masters Tournament champion, are among the industry’s most prolific and in-demand designers when it comes to new builds. The beautiful Plantation course at the Kapalua Resort on Maui was their first design, opening in 1991, but they really made waves four years later […]
Golf Course Architect Clive Clark – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 135
An all-new season of the LINKS Golf Podcast begins with a conversation featuring golf course architect Clive Clark. The hosts chat with Clark, a former player and broadcaster, about his memories from playing against Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf in the Ryder Cup, making the first televised hole-in-one in Masters history, and his acclaimed design […]
The 12 Best Metal-Winning Courses
When Xander Schauffele won gold at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, you could say he was a both a medal winner and a metal winner. Chemical elements such as gold, silver, copper, and iron are among the most well-known metals; they’re also extremely popular commodities in the world of golf course names. Of the golf […]
First Peek: Point Hardy Golf Club
Prepare to be stunned by Coore & Crenshaw’s first course in the Caribbean I don’t want to sound too dramatic. But in ranking the courses with the most spectacular settings for golf in the world—with appropriate acknowledgment to places like Old Head, Lofoten Links, and Cypress Point—Point Hardy Golf Club, opening in December as part […]
10 Courses that Resemble Augusta National
Dreaming of dogwoods and azaleas, but find that a tee time at Augusta National is out of reach? There’s a fistful of courses in the U.S. that embody many, though certainly not all, of the virtues of Augusta National. Some layouts approach the ambience, others the conditioning and design, and still others the floral displays. […]
The 10 Most Significant Augusta National Course Changes
The home of the Masters has undergone annual changes of all kinds. This unscientific ranking takes into account the impact on the course and on tournaments. 10. Rae’s Creek tributary fronting the 13th green is allowed to fill with more running water in the late 1980s, only to be undone following criticism from the likes […]
