Thousand Greens: Match.com Meets the Top 100
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 […]
Seminole and Cypress Point to Host Walker Cups
The two very exclusive clubs have joined the Walker Cup rota, but can their short layouts hold up?
Wee Wonders: The World’s Best Short Par 3s
Short par threes challenge architects, spark joy in golfers, and tap into what we love most about the game
The Golf Courses of the “The Crosby” AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
With its majestic setting on the Monterey Peninsula, no PGA Tour event boasts the lineup of layouts that the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am does
Which to Play? Cypress Point vs. Pebble Beach
Cypress Point or Pebble Beach
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 […]
