100 Years of Pebble Beach: The U.S. Amateur
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. While Pebble Beach is […]
Short and Sweet: 9-Hole, Par 3, and Short Courses are the Future
Nine-holers, Par-3s, and other abbreviated courses are all the rage–and could be the secret to reviving golf Former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy missed the cut at the 2009 British Open, but that didn’t prevent him from making lasting memories that week. Each day, after practice and following his first two rounds at the Ailsa […]
First Peek: Stoatin Brae
By Graylyn Loomis The newest course at a Michigan resort is a coming-out party for a team of up-and-coming designers When Jon Scott, owner of Gull Lake View Resort in Augusta, Mich., wanted to add a sixth golf course to his family’s property, he turned to Tom Doak, who lives about three hours north in […]
Classic Course: Somerset Hills Country Club
By Tom Ierubino Hidden away in Bernardsville, N.J., seven miles from the USGA’s headquarters in Far Hills, Somerset Hills is a place where time seems to stand still—but in a good way. There are no cart paths, and most of the golfers walk. The understated clubhouse is more about utility than grandeur. The same […]
Great Courses of Britain & Ireland: Enniscrone
The golf club celebrates its 100th year in 2018, but as I round the peak of towering Cnoc na gCorp in search of my ball, I can’t help but ponder the millennia of wind and tides and sliding glaciers that pushed this sandy pyramid up out of the dunes. It is the tallest ridge on […]
Top 10 Golf Courses: Georgia
Home to more than just Augusta National, where patrons flock every April for the Masters, the state of Georgia lays claim to a somewhat surprisingly wide variety of places to play golf. From hilly and historic courses dotting Atlanta to the beautiful “Golden Isles” on the state’s east coast, there is no shortage of world-class […]
Trinity Forest: A Golf Course Built on a Landfill
“Building a golf course should just not be this hard.” Those aren’t words one expects to hear from architect Bill Coore, who along with partner Ben Crenshaw has been responsible for some of the most important and appreciated layouts of the last few decades. But it’s exactly what Coore said over the phone to Jonas […]
Classic Course: San Francisco Golf Club
By Brian Hewitt A.W. Tillinghast’s only West Coast design has been restored to its original splendor In 1918, when the San Francisco Golf Club unveiled what turned out to be A. W. Tillinghast’s only original design west of Texas, it produced barely a murmur. No one knew the course would set the bar for […]
First Peek at Hogs Head
By Michael Williams There is no shortage of spectacular golf in Ireland; indeed, the bucket list of many golfers is peppered with destinations on the Emerald Isle. But with the opening of Robert Trent Jones II’s Hogs Head, every list was just extended one line. Located in County Kerry just outside the town of Waterville […]
The Essential: Hugh Alison
Charles Hugh Alison, who was known to the world by his middle name, was born in 1883 in the small English city of Preston, about 30 miles north of Manchester. A powerfully built and athletic young man, he played first-class cricket and earned his “Blue” competing for Oxford against Cambridge in the University Golf Match. […]
