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. […]
A.W. Tillinghast’s Greatest Courses – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 120
The hosts give listeners a background on one of golf’s greatest architects, A.W. Tillinghast, and detail his early life, his design style, his rise to prominence after death, and his best courses—private and public. This episode of the LINKS Golf Podcast is presented by Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. You can subscribe to the LINKS Golf […]
Personal Bests
The big-name architects designed courses that anyone-including you-can play. Here are the best from each of them. One of the great things about golf is how many courses are open to the public. Another terrific feature is that so many different individuals brought their aesthetics and expertise to the task of designing courses. Put those […]
Winged Foot’s Challenging U.S. Open Setup
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Winged Foot. The name conjures images of sidewalk-thin fairways, ball-devouring rough, and concrete-hard greens that repel approach shots—and make three-putting from five feet all too possible. In other words, it’s the perfect U.S. Open venue. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Open is returning to Winged Foot’s renowned West Course a few months later than […]
Gil Hanse’s Architecture 101: Greens and Their Complexes
On a visit to The Los Angeles Country Club in preparation for the 2023 U.S. Open, I did something that I rarely do. While walking the course with the superintendent, we putted on every green. And I must say, it was a lot of fun, free from trying to “make” a putt and instead watching […]
Who Really Designed Bethpage Black?
By Tony Dear A while ago, we asked who deserved the credit for how a golf course turns out—designer, design associate, construction foreman, re-designer, restorer, renovator, shaper, superintendent, some of the above, or all of them. It’s an especially pertinent subject at Bethpage Black as a question mark hangs over the identity of the […]
The Illustrious Career of A.W. Tillinghast
The talented terror from Philly was recently inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame
