Dumbarnie Links
On a trip to Scotland last fall I had the opportunity to play a sneak-preview round at Dumbarnie Links. Clive Clark, a member of the 1973 Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team, has taken a relatively undistinguished landscape and created 18 fun, testing, and memorable holes. About nine miles south of St. Andrews on […]
A Tour of Payne’s Valley
By Erik Matuszewski As our dusty camouflage utility vehicle squeezed past several excavators on one side of the gravel path behind Big Cedar Lodge’s Mountain Top clubhouse, a group of workers armed with compressed-air devices called air spades was on the other, painstakingly clearing dirt and rock from a wall of limestone outcroppings. Minutes […]
Top 10 Courses: Spain
Well-known for its famous coastlines along the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Spain also boasts a flavorful variety of more than 300 golf courses. From shore to shore you can find some of the best Robert Trent Jones Sr. designs in all of Europe, see Seve Ballesteros’s influence sprinkled across his homeland, and visit a plethora of […]
Landmand Golf Club: A New King-Collins Design
“The terrain is so bold, wild at times,” Rob Collins says of the site at Landmand Golf Club in northeast Nebraska where he and design partner Tad King have routed 18 holes that are set to open in 2021. “It reminds me of Ireland with 100-foot dunes everywhere you look.” King and Collins’s much-anticipated […]
Rock Spring Club: A Raynor Course You Can Play—For a Little While, at Least
The list of Seth Raynor golf courses open to public play is agonizingly short. Quietly, however, there’s now one tucked in a metro area with more golfers than any other in the country. The historic Rock Spring Club in West Orange, N.J., is so close to New York City that it has views of the […]
Cabot St. Lucia—Keiser and Cowan-Dewar Head South
By Adam Schupak Ben Cowan-Dewar still remembers the first time he saw pictures of what will be Cabot Saint Lucia. They were tantalizing enough to get him to hop on a plane and see for himself in June 2016. What he saw did not fail to impress: 1.5 miles of jutted coastline overlooking the Cas […]
Great Courses of Britain & Ireland: Brora Golf Club
Far north along the Scottish coast, playing between grazing sheep and the North Sea, is golf in its purest form. Located 30 minutes north of Dornoch, way up in the Scottish Highlands, Brora Golf Club is an unassuming links that sinks its hooks into nearly every golfer who plays it. It’s what people mean when […]
First Peek: Twin Dolphin
By Adam Schupak With Fred Couples part of the architectural team it’s no surprise that this new course at the tip of the Baja Peninsula is laid-back and fun Golfers needing another reason to visit the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula have a good one. Set on the shores of Santa Maria Bay, where […]
Classic Course: Brae Burn Country Club
If champions determine the quality of a golf course, then Brae Burn Country Club on the outskirts of Boston is firmly among America’s elite. When the record offers up names like Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Francis Ouimet, Harriot Curtis, and Beth Daniel, the place is something special. Like many of the courses that emerged in […]
Darren Clarke’s Royal Portrush
If Max Faulkner were around to defend his 1951 Open Championship title, he might not recognize what they’ve done to Royal Portrush’s acclaimed Dunluce Course. But 2011 Open Champion Darren Clarke has had a front-row seat to all the architectural drama that’s taken place there recently. The jovial Ulsterman has owned a home in Portrush […]