Top 10 “Red” Courses You Can Play
Seeing red—being overcome with anger—isn’t much fun, but playing red can be a blast. Dozens of stellar courses worldwide identify as “Red,” with the spectrum’s boldest color an integral part the course name. In other cases, Red is the actual course name. We’re speaking to such renowned international layouts as England’s The Berkshire (Red), designed […]
5 Unique Events at U.S. Golf Resorts
Every year, I anxiously await the mid-summer member/guest tournament at my buddy’s club. The format, camaraderie, and competition spread over several days is an annual highlight, and I know I’m not alone in circling that type of event on the golf calendar. Just over a year ago, in celebration of a milestone birthday, I took […]
Bonus Golf: The Best 19th Holes the Public Can Play
The 18 regulation holes at Payne’s Valley—the newest course at Missouri’s Big Cedar Lodge—may showcase Tiger Woods’s design chops, but the course’s 19th hole, nicknamed “The Big Rock,” is largely the vision of Big Cedar’s owner, Johnny Morris. The island green, which plays no more than 136 yards, is fronted by a large bunker and […]
Our Favorite Putting Courses
The current trend among golf resorts to add expansive putting courses to their offerings has its roots in the Home of Golf, where the St. Andrews Ladies Putting Club was created in the 1860s to give respectable ladies a place of their own to enjoy the game. Better known as “The Himalayas,” the enormous, undulating […]
10 Top Golf Courses That Opened in 2020
Even with golf’s resurgence in 2020 amid the pandemic, new course openings are exceedingly limited. After all, with more than 38,000 courses in over 200 countries worldwide, there’s no shortage of supply. Think about that. Even if you played one new course every single day, you’d need more than 100 years to play them all. […]
New Short Courses On the Horizon
It seems only natural Myrtle Beach should join the short course craze. The lot across the street from Myrtle Beach International Airport has been unused since 2017. But by this fall, it will once again be home to an 18-hole, par three course at the end of the runway—one with lights for nighttime play, music, […]
LINKS Exclusive Q&A: Course Architect Keith Rhebb
By Adam Stanley What a life it’s been for Keith Rhebb. A life, he says, he couldn’t even imagine in his dreams. Rhebb got his start in 2002 after working for a construction company in his hometown of Lincoln, Neb., and has made a name for himself working alongside Bill Coore and Ben […]
A Long Golf Weekend in Michigan
By Graylyn Loomis My first visit to Michigan was a master class in course architecture in which I helped to rebuild one course, played another with the designer, and stayed at a third with the team that had built it. I made the trip to Canal Shores, Forest Dunes, and Stoatin Brae with LINKS contributor […]
