Best Public Golf Courses of Palm Springs
There are golf hotbeds around the country and then there are destinations like Palm Springs, Calif., where the label of “Golf Mecca” seems more appropriate. With close to 125 golf courses in the near vicinity, options are aplenty with accessibility extremely high. Here’s a look at five of the best public courses in the Palm […]
A Los Angeles Golf Getaway
If you’re willing to battle the notorious freeways, several fun and affordable golf courses in Los Angeles await you—and the weather is hard to beat Angelenos validate all of the worst clichés about this sprawling region. We arrive late and leave early. We travel down peculiar vanity and dietary excursions. But the golfers of SoCal? […]
Top 18-Hole Golf Course Openings for 2021
With more than 38,000 golf courses worldwide, there’s no shortage of options for golfers with wanderlust. And given the wealth of supply and the demand for land, new golf course openings are pretty limited. But there are still some great ones to celebrate. After recently highlighting the top course debuts of 2020, it’s only fitting […]
Best Public Golf Options of Scottsdale
In my mind, when it comes to a winter golf oasis, there is nothing finer than Scottsdale. Home to the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the Scottsdale area boasts more than 200 golf courses, many of which are accessible to the public. Each year when the PGA Tour converges on TPC Scottsdale for the “Greatest Show […]
10 Top Golf Courses That Opened in 2020
Even with golf’s resurgence in 2020 amid the pandemic, new course openings are exceedingly limited. After all, with more than 38,000 courses in over 200 countries worldwide, there’s no shortage of supply. Think about that. Even if you played one new course every single day, you’d need more than 100 years to play them all. […]
American Dream Courses: Deep South
This is our version of the American Dream—really good golf where everyone is welcome and everyone can afford to play. I’ve had the good fortune to play quite a bit in the Deep South and don’t remember a course I haven’t liked (granted I don’t go looking for bad golf courses). Here’s a dozen great […]
Did Michael Jordan Build Golf’s Best Practice Area?
When he was in high school, Dustin Johnson used to hit balls long into the night at Weed Hill Driving Range outside Columbia, S.C., a practice facility that course architect Bobby Weed built when he was a teenager himself. While Weed Hill closed in 2015, Johnson is still honing his game at another practice complex […]
“Getting to 18”: Tom Doak’s Invaluable Addition to the Golf Library
A relatively small, though certainly important, part of a golf course architect’s job is deciding on a hole’s cosmetics, or how it’s going to look. A more important layer for most is its strategy, or how it’s going to play. By far the most crucial consideration, however, as it pertains to the functional, operational, and […]
Cabot Revelstoke Coming to Canada in 2023
Cabot announced in mid-November it will be expanding its golf-resort empire to the western side of Canada in British Columbia with Cabot Revelstoke—a resort expected to open in 2023 with a lodge and housing alongside an 18-hole golf course called Cabot Pacific designed by Rod Whitman and his new company, Whitman, Axland, & Cutten. Whitman, […]
American Dream Courses: Mid-Atlantic
There have been times the boundaries of the regions we’ve covered in this series have been rather stretched. The Northeast featured Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey—states I have since discovered could actually be considered part of the Mid-Atlantic. So not only does this article about the Mid-Atlantic not include Pennsylvania, New York, and New […]
