Tot Hill Farm: A Mike Strantz Gem is Restored in North Carolina
There’s something about playing a Mike Strantz-designed golf course. As an 18-hole exercise, the experience for golfers routinely borders on surreal, with one abstract hole after the next. And there’s a rareness, certainly, given that the artistic “Maverick” gifted the golf world just seven original designs before tragically passing away at the age of 50 […]
Modern Classics: Wild Horse
Another beauty in the Nebraska Sandhills, but this one is open to the public—and very affordable It’s unlikely any public golfer hoping to get the most bang from their buck will ever find a better option than Wild Horse Golf Club in Gothenburg, Neb. Okay, the fact it’s in Gothenburg—not the easiest place to reach, […]
An Early Look at Big Cedar Lodge’s New Cliffhangers Par-3 Course
Big Cedar Lodge’s golf offerings are getting bigger. The resort in southwest Missouri, founded by Bass Pro Shops owner Johnny Morris, has three 18-hole championship courses and is set to become the first golf destination in the U.S. with three different short courses. Big Cedar has a pristinely manicured 9-hole par-3 course called Top of […]
Top 10 Lakeside Courses You Can Play
Many course connoisseurs opine that there’s nothing better than oceanside golf. However, there’s plenty to be said for the glories of golf on a lake. Some lakeside golf experiences deliver so much beauty and challenge that they can vie with any of the top-ranked courses set next to oceans, bays, gulfs, or sounds. Based on […]
8 Noteworthy Municipal Golf Rebirths in 2023
As I walked off the 18th green at twilight at the conclusion of a recent weekday round, the action was just getting started for many other visitors to the new The Park West Palm. The clubhouse’s back patio bar bustled with a young crowd while families mixed with groups of 20- and 30-somethings on the […]
10 of Oregon’s Top Public Golf Courses Beyond Bandon Dunes
There is a wealth of quality public-access golf courses in Oregon removed from Bandon Dunes Golf Resort—here are 10 of the best.
The 10 Most Extraordinary Greens in the U.S.
“Putting greens are to golf courses what faces are to portraits,” said pioneering American architect Charles Blair Macdonald. Indeed, it is the infinite variety of golf’s ultimate targets that makes for endless fascination. “Nothing is more enjoyable than to play to a beautifully designed green,” said Robert Trent Jones, who recognized that shaping, contour, and […]
Top 20 U.S. Courses for Fall Foliage
When sweater weather arrives in northern climes, the days may grow shorter and the nights longer, but golf’s playing grounds take on a mantle of color that makes playing in autumn a sublime experience. From New England to the Pacific Northwest, with pockets of color extending through mountain regions and as far south as Alabama […]
Top 10 Courses: Portugal
Here’s our list of the top 10 courses across the Atlantic in Portugal 1. MONTE REI (NORTH), Vila Nova de Cacela, Faro At the southern tip of Portugal, this Jack Nicklaus course unfurls between the Serra do Caldeirão mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Bigness is the keynote: Broad fairways, enormous sculpted bunkers, and raised greens […]
Scotland’s Best Do-or-Die Par Threes
Par threes offer a nice break from golf’s two-shotters and three-shotters, a respite from the lengthier holes that predominate most courses—including those lucky enough to be situated in the Home of Golf. But because so much depends on your tee shot on these holes, your one full swing, they can often be scorecard-wreckers. If your […]