48 Hours in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Perhaps no place on the East Coast is as synonymous with golf as Myrtle Beach with its 102 courses
The Most Underrated Pete Dye Courses You Should Play
Whistling Straits. TPC Sawgrass. The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. Each of those courses should be on your bucket list, for sure. But here are some other public-access Pete Dye designs that might not get as much publicity but are sure to get your heart racing. Blackwolf Run Kohler, Wis. Very close to The American […]
The Top 10 Best Match Play Courses You Can Play
Back in the day, it was all about the match, score be damned. The nation’s Golden Era courses were specifically designed for match play, and now a new generation of designers, lead by Coore & Crenshaw, Tom Doak, and Gil Hanse, have built or restyled courses with risk-reward options that incite head-scratching, suspense, and sudden […]
First Peek at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point
Even the most diehard New Yorkers haven’t heard of Ferry Point, a little bit of the Bronx that sticks into the East River under the Whitestone Bridge. That anonymity is about to change.
The Top 10 Eco-Friendly Practices of Golf Courses
Golf, a game played in nature, has for years been lambasted by tree-huggers as a despoiler of the environment. Some of the criticism was deserved, but the industry overall has self-corrected since the millennium, pioneering cost-effective ways to become better stewards of the environment. In honor of Earth Day on April 22, here are what […]
Emerald Dunes Golf Club
A recent renovation has made the course, a true south Florida landmark, better than ever. What hasn’t changed are the club’s unique membership benefits and its ability to offer refuge from the outside world.
Radrick Farms
Back when a college job meant flipping burgers, I stumbled onto an offer I couldn’t rightly refuse: manning the pro shop at Radrick Farms, the University of Michigan’s faculty/staff golf course. A close audit might reveal the disappearance of a number of beers and a few ham sandwiches during my tenure, yet miraculously the operation […]
The Top 10 Unluckiest Holes in Golf
Golfers are by nature superstitious, and with reason. Their fortunes are tied to lucky (or unlucky) outcomes. Rub of the green rules the game. But there are some holes that seem to consistently bring players to grief. Augusta National, Augusta, Ga. | No. 15, par five, 530 yards You’ve finagled an invitation to Augusta National, […]
Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand
Set high above the Pacific Ocean in New Zealand, this Tom Doak design converges nature and sport like few other courses
The Top 10 Female Golf Course Architects
Ida Dixon Very likely the first woman architect in the U.S. (if not the world), Dixon is responsible for Springhaven Club, a private club in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, that opened in 1904. Dixon also was president of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia from 1911-16, which has held a tournament in her honor since 1917. Among […]
