Los Angeles Country Club: Ready For Its Close-Up
Los Angeles Country Club’s storied, if mysterious, North Course earns the U.S. Open spotlight It’s time to pull back the curtains. After an absence of 75 years, the U.S. Open is returning to our nation’s second-largest city and to a first-time venue, the Los Angeles Country Club. Course connoisseurs are salivating at the prospect of […]
Classic Courses: Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower)
Dripping in history and prestige, A.W. Tillinghast’s New Jersey triumph shines again the way it did more than a century ago Few golf clubs engulf you in historical significance like Baltusrol. It overwhelms from the moment you pass through the iron gates, in the halls of its 80,000-square-foot Tudor revival clubhouse, and sprawling across A.W. […]
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 […]
Gil Hanse’s Architecture 101: The Trouble With Trees
No architect wants to remove them from a golf course, but it’s often the best solution I am frequently asked what is the most difficult part of restoring Golden Age golf courses. My answer is always the same: trees. People look at trees wistfully, even romantically, and their opinions are always subjective. But when we […]
Gil Hanse Explains the Importance of Fairways
Most golfers don’t think of the fairway as an architectural feature, instead believing it’s just there for maintenance. However, we spend almost as much time marking out fairway lines in our new construction as we do anywhere else on the course. Why? Because the fairway is the first target every golfer aims for and where […]
LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 87: In-Depth on Baltusrol
Gil Hanse breaks down the details of his restoration work on the Lower Course at Baltusrol Golf Club in a conversation with Digital Editor Al Lunsford on this episode of the LINKS Golf Podcast, presented by Ashcroft Capital. Lunsford also takes listeners inside his round and overnight stay at the historic club. You can subscribe […]
Gil Hanse’s Architecture 101: Still On the Tee
Still on the Tee: There’s more to the importance of tee design than you—and the author—suspected We have already determined three things relating to the position of tees: 1) The routing of the course will establish the location of the tees; 2) The strategy of the hole will determine the angles of approach that each […]
Classic Courses: Plainfield Country Club
From revolution to evolution, this more than 100-year-old Donald Ross layout has stood the test of time On the spot where the Revolutionary War’s Battle of The Short Hills was fought in 1777, it is fitting that Plainfield Country Club has given golfers all the fight they can handle since it opened in 1921. However, […]
The Most Underrated Holes at Famous Courses
Each year when Masters week approaches, the golfing world transfixes its attention on Augusta National Golf Club. Golf enthusiasts picture the fairways and greens of Amen Corner or perhaps the club’s idyllic 16th hole. Similarly, when other widely acclaimed courses like TPC Sawgrass or the Old Course at St. Andrews come to mind, they conjure […]
Gil Hanse’s Architecture 101: Now On the Tee
The lowly teeing ground is only lowly if you overlook its strategic—and pleasure-producing—impact In hindsight, our discussion of a golf course’s features should logically have started with tees, since they are the starting point for each hole. However, tees are not the first feature that comes to mind when thinking about a golf course. In […]
