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 […]
The Lost MacKenzie Drawings of Augusta National
For 80 years, two sketches by Alister MacKenzie were locked in a vault. LINKS is showing them to the public for the first time
5 Myths About Bobby Jones
Some surprises about the founder of Augusta National, from biographer/historian Sidney L. Matthew
Are Today’s Pro Golfers the Best Ever? Maybe Not…
Today’s best players are very good. The best players of decades ago were better. They had to be.
Top 10 Reasons Pro Golf is Easier than Our Golf
The pros might be playing our game this week, but they don’t play the same game
The Course That Almost Wasn’t: The Story Behind The Story Behind Augusta National
J. Perry “Commodore” Stoltz had a dream. The Miami-based hotel magnate, whose faced graced the October 1, 1925 front cover of the Augusta Chronicle, envisioned an ever-expanding empire of elegant hotels—luxurious resort hotels that would draw wealthy winter visitors from the north and treat them to warm, southern temperatures and hospitality to match. Properties in […]
Augusta National Golf Club
A mutual love of St. Andrews led Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie to establish an American classic
Royal Lytham & St. Annes, England
A British Open Tradition
Wallasey Golf Club, England
Known primarily as the birthplace of the Stableford scoring system, this club outside Liverpool deserves notice for its layout along the Merseyside coast
Letter from St. Andrews: Between the Hill and Strath
With a fiercely sloping green and a pair of dastardly bunkers, the 11th hole at the Old Course is one of the greatest par threes in golf
