First Peek: The Keep at McLemore Resort
The second course at this Peach State resort/community promises an unparalleled mountain golf experience Already equipped with a layout that offers one of the game’s best finishing holes—a 435-yard par four with a stunning green perched atop a mountain precipice—northwest Georgia’s McLemore Resort is upping the ante and betting big with its second 18-hole design […]
Reversible Courses: A Returning Golf Fad?
It’s not like they were the only thing golfers could talk about, but from June 2016 when Michigan’s The Loop opened to July 2017 when Silvies Valley Ranch in Oregon welcomed its first guests, reversible courses certainly enjoyed their moment in the spotlight. Inspired by the reverse, or “left-hand,” routing on the Old Course at […]
Top 10 Places You Can’t Hit It at Augusta National
Augusta National has always been get-able for any player who’s dialed in during Masters week. Ben Hogan scorched the course with an unprecedented winning score of 14-under-par way back in 1953. Jack Nicklaus established a new tournament record of 17-under in 1965 (equaled by Raymond Floyd in 1976). And Tiger Woods bettered that score by […]
A Preview of Shorty’s: The New Par-3 Course at Bandon Dunes
His parents knew him as Warren, but to everyone else he was “Shorty.” Shorty Dow, caretaker (or, as he put it, “governor, mayor, and sheriff”) of the wild, 1,250-acre property on the Oregon coast that Mike Keiser would eventually transform into what might be the greatest golf resort in the world, Bandon Dunes, earned the […]
How the Old Course Inspired Augusta National
When Bobby Jones and Alister Mackenzie designed Augusta National, they took much of their inspiration from the Old Course. Can you see the connection? Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie, the original architects of Augusta National, had something else in common: The course they admired the most in the world was the Old Course at St. […]
11 Architects Who Directly Influenced Augusta National
Even the most casual golf fan is aware that Augusta National Golf Club was designed by Alister MacKenzie, in tandem with amateur legend and Grand Slam winner Bobby Jones. However, not even serious Masters students realize that nearly 20 prominent figures in the game have effected changes to the course design over the past 90 […]
Best Blind Shots at Public U.S. Golf Courses
The Dell hole at Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland remains almost as exactly as Old Tom Morris created it well over a century ago, a stunning and unique blind par three that plays over a 30-foot-tall hill to a narrow green set between the grassy dunes. For golfers on the tee, the only indication of […]
14 New Golf Projects on Our Radar
Golf’s post-pandemic resurgence has changed many things across the industry, development included. The National Golf Foundation recently revealed that there were more new courses under construction (69 at the start of 2024) than at any time in more than a decade. The uptick in development has yielded opportunity for both veteran and up-and-coming architects to […]
Jack Nicklaus and The Bear’s Club
It’s 10am on a February Tuesday in Jupiter, Fla. I’m en route to The Bear’s Club to talk to the private golf club’s founder and inspiration, Jack Nicklaus, about the updates completed in late 2023 on his original 1999 design in his South Florida backyard. It’s not every day you get to have a private […]
Golf’s Ultimate Encounters with Nature
Pebble Beach delivers golf’s best encounter with nature The most glorious courses not only challenge and entertain, they also transport us into stirring settings that stimulate our senses. For providing the ultimate encounter with nature, one awash in sensory overload, Pebble Beach Golf Links has no peer. It offers elements you can see, hear, feel, […]
