First Peek: Apogee South

A new design duo crafted Apogee South, the second layout at this golf haven in Florida’s high-end Hobe Sound.
First Peek: The Keep at McLemore Resort

The second course at this Peach State resort/community promises an unparalleled mountain golf experience Already equipped with a layout that offers one of the game’s best finishing holes—a 435-yard par four with a stunning green perched atop a mountain precipice—northwest Georgia’s McLemore Resort is upping the ante and betting big with its second 18-hole design […]
First Peek: The Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort

High-end golf is opening in the Motor City for the first time in more than 20 years Golfers researching a vacation to Michigan should take the state’s most populous city into consideration before automatically looking west toward Lake Michigan or north to the Upper Peninsula. Saint John’s Resort in the Metro-Detroit suburb of Plymouth, Mich., […]
First Peek: Te Arai Links (North)

The second half of this New Zealand resort should finally get you to fly across the Pacific Tom Doak’s track record in New Zealand already includes two layouts, Cape Kidnappers (opened in 2004) and Tara Iti (2015), that have become fixtures on World Top 100 lists—the latter soaring as high as the second-best course outside […]
First Peek: Point Hardy Golf Club

Prepare to be stunned by Coore & Crenshaw’s first course in the Caribbean I don’t want to sound too dramatic. But in ranking the courses with the most spectacular settings for golf in the world—with appropriate acknowledgment to places like Old Head, Lofoten Links, and Cypress Point—Point Hardy Golf Club, opening in December as part […]
First Peek: New Golf Projects in Scotland

The Home of Golf is enjoying a surge of new projects CABOT HIGHLANDS, Inverness In June 2022, golf development firm Cabot announced plans for its first property in the UK. The brand, known for its established Cabot Cape Breton property in Nova Scotia and projects in progress in Saint Lucia, British Columbia, and Florida, acquired […]
First Peek: Bar Run

A family-owned sand and gravel mine has morphed into Oregon’s next great public golf course Since opening Umpqua Sand & Gravel in 1965, the Guido family has known the land they owned in Roseburg, Ore., couldn’t be mined forever. A lighthearted idea to build a 9-hole course led to shaping a few par-three holes for […]
First Peek: CapRock Ranch

Part rolling hills, part climactic cliff sides, this new private design could challenge the best in the Sandhills How to describe the latest golf course design from Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner in northwest Nebraska? In a word: different. The opportunity to build in the Nebraska Sandhills, next door to the Prairie Club where Hanse […]
First Peek: PGA Frisco (East)

The PGA of America is building it and golf ’s top events are coming. Eventually. The majority of the Gil Hanse-designed East Course at PGA Frisco—part of the 36-hole municipal development at the heart of the PGA of America’s new headquarters 40 minutes north of Dallas—has been grassed and should be ready to debut by […]
First Peek: Tiger Woods’ Payne’s Valley
By Erik Matuszewski Big Cedar Lodge’s Mountain Top clubhouse first comes into view on the winding drive up to the resort’s newest golf course, Payne’s Valley. At a distance, it looks small atop a massive ridge and limestone wall almost 200 feet high—the highest point on the property in southwest Missouri. It’s just […]