Inwood Country Club
It has been generations since the Belt Parkway and Kennedy Airport bestowed their mixed blessings on the town of Inwood. Today a drive down the JFK Expressway and Rockaway Boulevard carries you past blank-looking freight warehouses and the backs of strip malls, with occasional, reassuring glimpse of scrub pines or an old bait shack. […]
A History of Pasatiempo Golf Club
The opening of any golf course represents an ending as well as a beginning—the end of a long struggle to identify the land, to carve the course out of its raw potential. But Pasatiempo represents a more poignant end than most, because it was the last great course of the Roaring ’20s, opening just […]
Golf Travel: Williamsburg, Virginia
History is at the heart of Williamsburg, from the restored 18th-century town that was the capital of pre-Revolutionary Virginia to the country’s second-oldest college. The history even extends to the golf—the area is home to one of the first island greens. But there’s far more to Williamsburg than the past: Lodging options like the […]
Formby Golf Club, England
Scan the itinerary of any golfer on a pilgrimage to the British Isles and the chances are Formby Golf Club will be somewhere near the bottom, next to the reminder about buying presents for the family at the airport on the way home. There is one reason for this oversight and it has nothing […]
North Berwick Golf Club, Scotland
The vast majority of golfers, even those natives of the game’s homeland who ought to know better, mention of East Lothian generally brings the knee-jerk response of “Muirfield, magnificent Muirfield.” Yet in historical terms, the present home of the ancient Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers is a Johnny-come-lately upstart on the peerless stretch of […]
The Royal Dublin Golf Club, Ireland
When the guns on the Western Front fell silent at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month of 1918, among the estimated 35,000 Irish who perished in the Great War was the country’s finest golfer. Michael Moran, the first Irishman to win prize money in the British Open, was mortally […]
Double Eagle Club
John McConnell believes in doing things right. That’s how this Columbus, Ohio, resident brought Worthington Industries from an $1,800 start-up operation in his basement to a Fortune 500 company with more than $1 billion in sales and 7,000 employees. His philosophy: Work hard, know exactly where you’re going and surround yourself with the best possible people. These same rules […]
The Kingsley Club
Two high-rolling businessmen gambled on an unknown architect and came up aces with this spiritual descendant of the classic Crystal Downs
Royal New Kent, Virginia
Royal New Kent opened in August 1996. From a playability standpoint, Royal New Kent features generous, contoured fairways, occasional blind shots, 140 bunkers and large, fast greens with bold swales and ridges. A thinking man’s course, each hole has several ways to play it and every shot has options regarding the choice of clubs and […]
Garden City Golf Club, New York
We might say Garden City Golf Club has aged gracefully, except it hasn’t aged at all. It is a small, private club frozen in time, in the heart of a prosperous Long Island town just east of New York City. It is a place where golf simply feels more like golf, where your second step […]