The Sanctuary Golf Club
A real estate sultan buys a patch of wilderness near Denver and tells architect Jim Engh to build the “most spectacular course” in the country. The resulting visual feast says that goal just may have been achieved.
Cabot Links: A Great Course?
This Nova Scotia layout has been the most hotly anticipated new course of the year. Following his visit in September, LINKS Senior Writer Thomas Dunne found himself struggling with a simple question. What emerged was a (messy) search for the elusive border separating good from great—as well as a captivating conversation with a fellow linksophile.
The Infamous Lunch at Muirfield
The lunch at Muirfield is a weighty tradition, indeed
Which is Better – National or Shinnecock?
These two legendary layouts are not only near one another geographically but numerically, as well, on lists of the country’s greatest classic courses
Cabot Links, Canada
Cabot Links is off the beaten path, but well worth the trip
A Simpler Game: FarmLinks at Pursell Farms
FarmLinks is not just a top-rated resort—It’s also a research-and-development golf course that has schooled thousands of superintendents
Moortown Golf Club, England
The site of the first Ryder Cup played in Britain, this English beauty has recently had many of its MacKenzie charms restored
The Most Polarizing Courses in Golf

St. Andrews…Muirfield…Pinehurst No.2…TPC Sawgrass…Icons all. But they’re also among a handful of courses that split golfers into two groups—those who love them and those who emphatically do not
Chicago Loves Golf
You’ve gotta be devoted, and a little bit crazy, to play golf in Chicago. But then you’ll
be rewarded by some of the country’s best courses, public and private
Gil Hanse on the Rio Olympic Golf Course
Sooner or later, the secret would get out. It had to