Spring 2025 

Volume 38, Number 2

Spring Fever

There’s an unwritten rule in the golf publishing business that we have to write about the Masters each spring. The challenge, of course, is coming up with new things to say. You’re going to be thrilled this year, as we’ve produced pieces featuring veteran Masters looper John Wood, Augusta National’s consulting architect Tom Fazio, and more in this issue. Spring has sprung.

Table of Contents

Tom Fazio has dominated the last six decades of golf architecture

by Joe Passov

Veteran Masters looper John Wood identifies the critical shots and toughest hole locations at the Masters

by Joe Passov

The other country on the Iberian Peninsula is finally getting the respect it deserves for its culture, cuisine, comforts—and great golf

by David DeSmith

For nearly 50 years, Bob Rotella has been helping golfers win the battle with their minds

by Steve Eubanks

After cashing in big on its original bet, Washington State’s Gamble Sands is ready to double down

by Al Lunsford

Long after a glacier carved out this piece of Cape Cod, one of the game’s lesser-known geniuses laid out a masterpiece upon it

by David DeSmith

Push on just a wee bit further east of Edinburgh for this not-to-be-missed charmer

by Nick Edmund

Inside LINKS

Spring Fever

The Real Bifurcation is Coming

Green Sunday

Bergin’s Dazzling Discovery

In Development

World Round-up

Norway

Marion Hollins

Kiawah Island Golf Resort

Loraloma

Sam Cooper

Nebraska

John Wood (photo by Getty Images)

Veteran Masters looper John Wood identifies the critical shots and toughest hole locations at the Masters

by Joe Passov

Tom Fazio has dominated the last six decades of golf architecture

by Joe Passov

Tom Fazio

Bob Rotella (photo by Bob Cullen)

For nearly 50 years, Bob Rotella has been helping golfers win the battle with their minds

by Steve Eubanks

The other country on the Iberian Peninsula is finally getting the respect it deserves for its culture, cuisine, comforts—and great golf

by David DeSmith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penha Longa (photo by Kevin Murray)