Top 10 Courses: New Jersey
Here’s our list of the top 10 courses in New Jersey, also known as the Garden State
Cabot Revelstoke: Canada’s Next Great Mountain Course Takes Shape
Nestled on a ridgeline between the Selkirk and Monashee Mountains and overlooking the Columbia River Valley in Revelstoke, British Columbia, a golf course is being built in the heli-skiing capital of the world. It only makes sense that the next Canadian golf property from Cabot—one of the hottest golf development firms on the planet—would come […]
When Playing Golf, Do You Prefer To Walk The Course Or Ride In A Cart?
8 Great Courses with Gigantic Greens
Jumbo-sized greens have been around forever—or at least since the beginning. The oldest course on earth, St. Andrews, sports a fistful of the largest greens in creation. Golden Age masters from C.B. Macdonald to Alister MacKenzie, both enamored with the Old Course, crafted vast putting surfaces to emulate St. Andrews. In mid-century, Robert Trent Jones […]
Golf’s Most Unusual Tee Box Names
Tiger Woods has changed the game of golf in many ways over the years. One of the least impactful, at least for us regular folk, is the lengthening of golf courses. But who among us isn’t familiar with the term “Tiger” tees even if we haven’t played from these way-back teeing areas? That said, as […]
First Peek: Union League National
Fry/Straka bring the “Big Fill” to the Jersey Shore Just over four years after the “re-do” began at the former public Sand Barrens Golf Club in Swainton, N.J., all 27 holes at the newly named Union League National Golf Club opened for play in July. What has transpired since February 2018 at the now private […]
Best Personal Launch Monitors on the Market
It used to be that the average amateur golfer had no way of replicating the practice regimens of the world’s best professionals. To be honest, there’s still a vast chasm separating the training routines of touring pros versus weekend warriors. It’s unlikely that the average amateur can devote hours upon hours each day to work […]
Besides Golf, What Is Your Favorite Sport To Play?
Players’ Favorite Holes on the PGA Tour
Ask any avid golfer for their favorite hole on courses that they play regularly, and their answer—should they have one—will likely highlight a hole that they always (or at least most of the time) play well. Tour players aren’t immune to this train of thought, either. “My favorite hole on tour is No. 6 at […]
Golf’s Most Intimidating Courses
No course intimidates so thoroughly as Pine Valley Legendary scribe Bernard Darwin called Pine Valley “an examination in golf.” It’s been called far worse. Perennially ranked as the world’s best golf course, it is also likely the most intimidating, certainly for a middle handicap golfer. Its bunkers sport sinister names such as “Hell’s Half-acre” at […]