Classic Courses: California Golf Club of San Francisco

Coming up the entryway into California Golf Club of San Francisco—or, as it’s more commonly called, Cal Club—is a drive back in time. The road winds past the first fairway and up to a grand white clubhouse. There’s a main entrance, but the members know better and walk around to the side and through a […]

Thousand Greens: Match.com Meets the Top 100

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Shinnecock, Winged Foot, Oakmont, Olympic—every serious golfer knows the names, but only a fortunate few have played the courses. In contrast to the UK, where the host sites of the Open Championship extend a warm welcome to visitors, U.S. Open venues and other top American courses are, for the most part, shut tight, exclusive bastions […]

Top 10 Most Scenic Golf Courses

In a world rich with stunning golf courses, some layouts simply stand above the rest. Sure, there is a seemingly endless amount of courses that occupy seaside linksland or are blessed with a mountain backdrop, and while they’re definitely scenic, not all of them can make the cut for this list. The 10 courses I […]

Cypress Point Club, California

  Cypress Point is, among golf courses, perhaps the ultimate enigma. It is one of the most famous, has been called the most beautiful and is widely considered to be one of the greatest golf courses in the world. Yet relatively few play it, there is no practice range or high-end logo-filled pro shop, the […]

A History of Pasatiempo Golf Club

  The opening of any golf course represents an ending as well as a beginning—the end of a long struggle to identify the land, to carve the course out of its raw potential. But Pasatiempo represents a more poignant end than most, because it was the last great course of the Roaring ’20s, opening just […]