From Our Readers: A Love Affair with Scotland’s Muirfield
A subscriber shares his experience at one of Scotland’s most iconic Open Championship venues By Clive Greaves I first fell in love with Muirfield on the occasion of my first visit some 50 years ago. I have been fortunate to return quite a few times in the intervening years and my passion has only increased. […]
A Deep Dive on the Black Course at Streamsong Resort
By Graylyn Loomis Walking Streamsong Black before it opened, I was struck by its size and scale. The fairways were wide, the greens huge, and everywhere you turned were long views across thousands of acres of central Florida. It took me more than a year to return with my clubs and actually play the […]
100 Years of Pebble Beach: The U.S. Open
In 2019, Pebble Beach Golf Links will celebrate its 100th birthday and host its sixth U.S. Open. To commemorate these milestones, each issue of LINKS Magazine and LINKSdigital between now and then will tell the unique story that is Pebble Beach. Those articles will also be shared here on our website. As Pebble Beach Golf Links […]
A Deep Dive into Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley
By Erik Matuszewski I scanned the carts in front of the clubhouse, searching for the one headed to the 7th hole for our shotgun start at Mammoth Dunes. Jordan, the friendly young attendant who’d earlier said he’d be ferrying us to our opening hole, saw my confusion and waved me over. He was standing next […]
Kauai’s Prince Course is Reborn
By Erik Matuszewski For years, the Prince Course on Kauai has been shrouded in mystery. The challenging layout, a visual stunner which plays over and through valleys, ravines and rivers on Kauai’s lush north shore, hasn’t been open to play since the end of 2014 yet somehow remained on various top 100 course ranking […]
Clubs Without Courses: How Some Golf Clubs Thrive Without a Home Track
When Sean Ogle abandoned the life of a financial analyst and began writing the blog “Breaking 80,” he never imagined how many fellow golfers would reach out and invite him to play golf at their home courses. Realizing he had formed an impressive network of “golf geeks,” Ogle decided there must be a better way […]
Carnoustie Golf Links Hosts its Eighth Open Championship
By Tony Dear Scott Dunlap tied for tenth at the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie. He finished five shots out of the three-man play-off contested by the hapless Frenchman Jean Van de Velde who had blown his chance of outright victory with a calamitous triple-bogey seven on the 72nd hole, 1997 champion at Royal […]
100 Years of Pebble Beach: The 1977 PGA Championship
In 2019, Pebble Beach Golf Links will celebrate its 100th birthday and host its sixth U.S. Open. To commemorate these milestones, each issue of LINKS Magazine and LINKSdigital between now and then will tell the unique story that is Pebble Beach. Those articles will also be shared here on our website. If you don’t remember what […]
The Essential: Dick Wilson
These days, many define the post-war period in golf design as the “Robert Trent Jones Era,” but it’s sometimes forgotten that for nearly 20 years he had a rival matching him course for course. Louis Sibbett “Dick” Wilson, born in Philadelphia in 1904, dropped out of the University of Vermont (which he had attended on […]
Beau Welling: Person of Interest
For years, the unofficial title of “golf’s most interesting man” has belonged to Miguel Angel Jimenez. But let us make the case for Beau Welling. Consider the course designer’s extensive range of interests and accomplishments. He is a great fan of the arts and sits on the board of the Carolina Ballet Theatre. During the […]
