Classic Courses: Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower)
Dripping in history and prestige, A.W. Tillinghast’s New Jersey triumph shines again the way it did more than a century ago Few golf clubs engulf you in historical significance like Baltusrol. It overwhelms from the moment you pass through the iron gates, in the halls of its 80,000-square-foot Tudor revival clubhouse, and sprawling across A.W. […]
In Their Prime: Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have already produced an incredible resume of courses. But could it be that we haven’t even seen their best yet? Bill Coore always said he and design partner Ben Crenshaw feel most comfortable working on one to three projects a year. Any more than that, he added, might prevent […]
Naples Golf: Paradise Glossed
Naples stakes a claim to golf heaven The Florida peninsula is endowed with 1,350 miles of coastline, and many stretches of that shore have been tagged with catchy names like The First Coast, The Space Coast, The Gold Coast—each with its own cleverly crafted backstory. When the Naples, Marco Island, and Everglades Convention and Visitors […]
First Peek: Brambles
With the help of Coore & Crenshaw, James Duncan is introducing the UK model to California wine country Golf course architect James Duncan—a 20-plus-year associate of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw who grew up in Denmark and Scotland—has long dreamed of bringing something to America that resembled the best clubs in the UK. Specifically, a […]
Top Public Golf in San Francisco
The City by the Bay is a great city in which to play Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner once called San Francisco “49 square miles surrounded by reality.” The area of this city pressed between ocean and bay may be limited, but the number of golf facilities available to the public is not, and for […]
George Peper: A Call for Kinder Golf Courses
Having suffered through a generation that produced some regrettably brutish golf courses, we may now be in remission Thirty-five years ago, when George Bush famously called for a “kinder, gentler nation,” at the 1988 Republican Convention he was referring to the overall state of American society, but he could just as well have been talking […]
Golf Podcasts: The New Voice of the Game
Podcasts provide golf addicts with fresh perspectives—as anyone with a microphone and internet access can become a storyteller It started in 2017 on a golf trip to Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Trail. This was the first time Mike Shade and Eli Strait—two golf-obsessed college friends in their mid-30s—planned a big buddies’ golf getaway. As a […]
Top 10 Courses: Virginia
Here’s our list of the top 10 courses in Virginia, also known as the Old Dominion 1. THE OLDE FARM, Bristol Unfurled on a stretch of rolling farmland in the Appalachian foothills, this links-style design by Bobby Weed, always in superb condition, is a full test of both shotmaking and course management. 2. THE […]
Golf’s Boldest Bunkers
Bunkers should be visible, numerous, and intimidating. These four courses display the boldest bunkers of all.
Geoff Shackelford: Golf Architecture is Getting its Due
Golf architecture is having a moment. Finally! From the public-course world up to the elitest of the elite, golfers are bonding over a shared affinity for course design. To the small legion of geeks out there—guilty as charged—we’ve long wondered why the masses failed to share our passion even as architecture has long been golf’s […]