12 Surprising PGA Championship Courses You Can Play
Quail Hollow, venue for the 2025 PGA Championship, has a storied history by any measure. Unfortunately, you have to know a member to get aboard. However, if you’re looking to bask in PGA Championship lore, there are plenty of public-access layouts that will accommodate, including some that will surprise you. We’ll omit the obvious trophy […]
The Greening of Oak Hill: A Master Restoration by Andrew Green
Meet Andrew Green, architecture’s low-profile master of restoring vintage golf courses, including the venue for the 2023 PGA Championship WHEN THE NEWS BROKE IN 2016 that Oak Hill Country Club had retained an architect to restore its Donald Ross-designed East course, a collective cheer erupted. When the club revealed that the architect chosen was Andrew […]
5 Reasons To Love Pinehurst Resort
The flagship hotel at the Cradle of American Golf is undergoing a stylish and luxurious transformation Since the turn of the 20th century, Pinehurst Resort has attracted the country’s most discerning golf travelers to its bevy of world-class courses. Yet despite the now nine full-length layouts (with a 10th in the works), the resort’s centerpiece […]
A Brewery with a Golf Course: Tree House Brewing Serves Up Tee Times
New England’s Tree House Brewing is rolling out another barrel of fun—a brewery with a golf course The people at Tree House Brewing Company know a thing or two about greens. One of the company’s flagship New England IPAs is called Green, and over the years that hazy, citrusy, hops-rich nectar has given rise to […]
Angela Moser: Pinehurst X Marks the Spot
Angela Moser’s life led her to a career in course design, and a treasured opportunity at Pinehurst Angela Moser loves baking. The hands-on molding process, creating something for others’ enjoyment, is sort of like shaping a golf course. “Though it’s a little more delicious, I think,” says Moser, who has helped mold such projects as […]
Top 10 Co-Designed Public Courses in the U.S.
With each memorable Masters Tournament, we are treated to one of architecture’s greatest design collaborations, with Alister MacKenzie and Bobby Jones responsible for the creation of Augusta National. Sixty-five years later, Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus teamed up to craft Harbour Town, a beloved PGA Tour venue since 1969. What those courses proved is that […]
PGA Frisco: Behind the PGA of America’s New Home in Texas
PGA Frisco, the new home of the PGA of America, boasts two freshly built courses ready to challenge the world’s best—and you At PGA Frisco, just north of Dallas, the 14th hole on Fields Ranch West is aptly branded “Big Country.” The subtle dogleg-left plays notably uphill to a well-guarded green that is exceedingly wide, […]
A 6-Course Public Golf Trip in Orlando
Where else can you enjoy the work of everyone from Arnold Palmer to Mickey Mouse? The scouting report on the Orlando golf scene can best be summed up as quantity over quality. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t courses worth schlepping your clubs along for the ride when joining the masses coming to the most-visited […]
Golf’s Most Exhaustive Tests
Bethpage Black is golf’s ultimate taxing test Some golf courses challenge with gargantuan length, others with a parade of hazards. Add slick, undulating greens, fairways squeezed by long grass, and targets shrunk by stiff breezes and you have some of earth’s toughest courses. A select few among those brutes will flat out exhaust you by […]
10 Best Public Coore & Crenshaw Courses
Bill Coore, a longtime golf course architect and Ben Crenshaw, a two-time Masters Tournament champion, are among the industry’s most prolific and in-demand designers when it comes to new builds. The beautiful Plantation course at the Kapalua Resort on Maui was their first design, opening in 1991, but they really made waves four years later […]
