PGA Tour Q&A: One Course for the Rest of Your Life
If you could only play one course for the rest of your life, where would you choose to play? It’s a question that golfing friends often ask each other, so we decided to ask a bunch of PGA Tour players to find out where they would choose to play golf if they could only tee […]
Top 10 Georgia Courses You Can Play
Unfortunately for visiting golfers to Georgia, the host venue of the Tour Championship—East Lake Golf Club—is private, as are former Tour stops Atlanta Country Club, TPC Sugarloaf, and multiple-major-championship-host Atlanta Athletic Club. However, Atlanta and the rest of the Peach State boast a multitude of superb public-access layouts. Here are the 10 best courses you […]
Great Public Golf Courses Around Seattle
In his 1962 travelogue Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck wrote of his shock at seeing the rapid expansion of Seattle. He’d thought of it as a “little city of space and trees and gardens, its houses matched to such a background,” but it was now a place of eight-lane highways with traffic that rushed with […]
Ireland’s 10 Best Par Threes
Par threes are special holes. Rarely will you robotically reach for your driver when you step onto the tee of a par three. More likely, you’ll be grabbing a laser rangefinder and throwing a few blades of grass in the air to calculate the distance and pick a club. At that point, one swing will […]
7 Noteworthy “North” Courses in America
The year 2023 served as a notable year for “North” courses, both competitively and recreationally—the U.S. Open graced the fairways of the North course at Los Angeles Country Club; the North course at Olympia Fields Country Club hosted the second round of the 2023 FedExCup Playoffs; and Tom Doak’s anticipated North course at Te Arai […]
The Most “Angelic” U.S. Golf Courses
Los Angeles, in addition to recently hosting the 2023 (men’s) U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club’s North course, is home to the second-most golfers of any metropolitan area in the country. The County of Los Angeles owns the largest and busiest public golf system in the nation, with 20 courses at 18 different sites. We’ve […]
Top 10 Tennessee Courses You Can Play
Unfortunately for visiting golfers, TPC Southwind—home to the PGA Tour’s prestigious FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tenn.—is private, as is Memphis’s other top tournament track, the South course at Colonial Country Club. However, the Volunteer State is chock full of value-oriented, extremely scenic public-access layouts. Here are the 10 best courses you can play […]
Ireland’s 10 Best Modern Courses
Ireland has no shortage of historic golf courses—famed venues that attract eager visitors from all over the world. Playing the notable links at Ballybunion, Lahinch, and Portmarnock—and the two Royals, County Down and Portrush, in Northern Ireland—should be on every golfer’s bucket list. But some of Ireland’s other must-play courses date to more recent times, […]
No Repeat Par: Examining One of Golf’s Unique Routing Quirks
When “The Other Course” at Scottsdale National Golf Club debuted in 2016, much of the focus was that the dramatic routing had been built from an almost pancake-flat piece of property by moving 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt. But the layout, from the design team of Tim Jackson and David Kahn, is among the […]
America’s Top Lighted Golf Courses
Near one of the country’s most crowded golf markets—Phoenix and Scottsdale—one Arizona course is hoping to stand out… by moving into the spotlight. The big differentiator for the course, Grass Clippings at Rolling Hills in Tempe, isn’t the roaring lions or howling monkeys from the nearby Phoenix Zoo that can be heard on the 3rd […]