The Top 10 Female Golf Course Architects
Ida Dixon Very likely the first woman architect in the U.S. (if not the world), Dixon is responsible for Springhaven Club, a private club in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, that opened in 1904. Dixon also was president of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia from 1911-16, which has held a tournament in her honor since 1917. Among […]
A Brief History of Seth Raynor Golf Courses
C.B. Macdonald’s protégé rose to produce an impressive portfolio of his own
The Affordability of Minimalist Golf Courses
If they cost so little to build, why aren’t minimalist golf courses more affordable to play?
Comparing Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods Courses
As golfers, two of the sport’s most legendary figures have a lot in common. In their prime, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods drove the ball long and straight. They controlled the distance and trajectory of their irons, scrambled to save par when they missed, and sank all the putts that mattered. Both were cool-headed strategists who were better under the gun than the competition.
The Greatest Golf Architect of All Time: Harry Colt
In LINKS’s Silver Anniversary issue last fall, readers may recall the surprise atop the leaderboard of the 25 greatest architects of all time. The winner of that survey was Harry S. Colt (1869–1951), a lawyer and former Cambridge University golf captain who left his position as club secretary of England’s Sunningdale Golf Club to become the pivotal figure in golf’s first truly global design firm, Colt, Alison, & Morrison. In this partnership, C.H. Alison took on projects in far-flung locales like Japan and New Zealand, while Colt worked primarily in the British Isles and Continental Europe.
The Top 10 Jack Nicklaus Courses You Can Play
Many of Jack’s best courses are private, but he’s designed a number of great public-access layouts, too
Robert Trent Jones Jr. on Chambers Bay
Backed by “the Lone Fir” and Puget Sound, the par-three 15th at Chambers Bay—the 2015 U.S. Open host near Tacoma, Washington—is the course’s charm hole
Great Courses, Awful Holes
Not every great course has a stinker in its routing, but enough do that we wonder if these porkers don’t deserve their own kind of grudging praise
The Future of Golf Course Architecture
The “minimalists” appear to have won the battle over the future of golf course design. Sadly, their hopes of winning new jobs seem minimal, too.
The Par-5 Untouchables, Revisited
Our recent research suggests the unreachable par five has become an endangered species
