Speed Slots: A Unique Golf Course Feature Explained
Today’s course architects clearly endorse the use of speed slots—regarded as something of a welcome quirk or abnormality in golf design.
12 Things You Might Not Have Known About Augusta National
In 1986, Charles Price wrote a history of Bobby Jones, The Masters, and Augusta National Golf Club titled A Golf Story, which he noted in the afterword was not the “official” story of any of them, but rather an “authorized” version. The founding editor of Golf Magazine and later a contributing editor at Golf Digest, […]
How Bobby Jones Won His First U.S. Open a Century Ago
When it comes to figuring out how Bobby Jones won his first United States Open Championship a century ago this year—in July of 1923—one would benefit in reviewing what a 56-year-old Jones said about his greatest golfing weakness during several interviews with sports reporters and a few of his golfing articles penned on the subject. […]
What We Know About the New 13th Tee at Augusta National
Here’s what we know about Augusta National’s ambitious 13th tee: pretty much everything—minus one elusive detail Not long ago, players would turn up Masters week and get asked about course changes. Some reported phantom revisions, insisting the club had tweaked and tugged away at the design when no such thing occurred. The Lords of Augusta […]
Great Holes of the British Isles: 11th, St. Andrews (Old), “Eden”
Bobby Jones is widely regarded as one of golf’s foremost gentlemen. The stories of Jones’s sportsmanship and convivial manner are legion, and the reverence with which he is lauded seldom flags. But there was one hole that caused the good Mr. Jones to completely lose it: the 11th hole of the Old Course at St. […]
A 5-Course Golf Road Trip Around Atlanta
For golfers, Atlanta conjures one name—Bobby Jones—and the hometown hero has deep roots within the local public golf scene 5 Courses 162 Miles $168-$297 Bobby Jones Golf Course, built in 1932 as the city’s first 18-hole public track, has carried The Emperor’s name since its founding, but the quality and condition of the course never […]
5 Great Public Golf Courses in the Greater Atlanta Area
While Georgia’s crown jewel of golf, Augusta National, sits at the far eastern edge of the state, the area around the state’s capital city is flush with superior golf courses. Well-known are private clubs like Peachtree, Atlanta Athletic Club, and East Lake Golf Club, but public golf is also extremely accessible in and around the […]
The Enduring Legacy of Bobby Jones
No matter how or when you tune into this year’s Masters, you’re going to hear someone wax lyrical about the legacy of Robert Tyre Jones Jr.—Bobby Jones. Augusta National was his course—his dream realized in the Georgia pines. The course and club still bear his signature almost everywhere you look. And the way the Masters […]
The Ultimate Unpassable Golf Quiz
Don’t even think about acing this test. Instead, try to make a decent golf score. Give yourself a starting total of 100 and deduct one stroke for each correct answer. (Answers at bottom of page) 1. Which is greater? The number of PGA Tour victories by Phil Mickelson or the combined total number of Tour […]
The New Bobby Jones Golf Course: New Life for Atlanta’s Oldest Public Layout
By the mid 2000s, the Bobby Jones Golf Course was no longer the fitting tribute to its namesake that it was on opening day in 1932. Although it sat on prime real estate in the heart of Atlanta, the city’s oldest public golf course had become hopelessly run-down. It was the type of course that […]
