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In Their Prime: Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have already produced an incredible resume of courses. But could it be that we haven’t even seen their best yet? Bill Coore always said he and design partner Ben Crenshaw feel most comfortable working on one to three projects a year. Any more than that, he added, might prevent […]
10 Top Dual Greens in the U.S.
There are double greens and then there are dual greens. Double greens are essentially one large green that’s shared by two different holes, with separate hole placements and flags. Think St. Andrews, one of the world’s most famous courses, which has seven double greens. In contrast, dual greens are when a single hole has two […]
Naples Golf: Paradise Glossed
Naples stakes a claim to golf heaven The Florida peninsula is endowed with 1,350 miles of coastline, and many stretches of that shore have been tagged with catchy names like The First Coast, The Space Coast, The Gold Coast—each with its own cleverly crafted backstory. When the Naples, Marco Island, and Everglades Convention and Visitors […]
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 […]
