What Makes a Golf Course Great?
The notion of golf course greatness eludes exact description
Dogged Victim | My Course You’ll Likely Never Play
But next time you’re near Siberia, please do stop by
The Unsung Heroes of Golf Course Architecture
Who actually did the work on the World’s great courses?
The Philosophy of Tom Fazio
A painterly aptitude for melding golf with the landscape has made him the most commercially successful architect of our time
The Challenges of Building a Golf Course
Building a golf course doesn’t always go smoothly, as these tales from the work site attest
A Brief History of Seth Raynor Golf Courses
C.B. Macdonald’s protégé rose to produce an impressive portfolio of his own
The Affordability of Minimalist Golf Courses
If they cost so little to build, why aren’t minimalist golf courses more affordable to play?
Comparing Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods Courses
As golfers, two of the sport’s most legendary figures have a lot in common. In their prime, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods drove the ball long and straight. They controlled the distance and trajectory of their irons, scrambled to save par when they missed, and sank all the putts that mattered. Both were cool-headed strategists who were better under the gun than the competition.
The Greatest Golf Architect of All Time: Harry Colt
In LINKS’s Silver Anniversary issue last fall, readers may recall the surprise atop the leaderboard of the 25 greatest architects of all time. The winner of that survey was Harry S. Colt (1869–1951), a lawyer and former Cambridge University golf captain who left his position as club secretary of England’s Sunningdale Golf Club to become the pivotal figure in golf’s first truly global design firm, Colt, Alison, & Morrison. In this partnership, C.H. Alison took on projects in far-flung locales like Japan and New Zealand, while Colt worked primarily in the British Isles and Continental Europe.
The Top 10 Jack Nicklaus Courses You Can Play
Many of Jack’s best courses are private, but he’s designed a number of great public-access layouts, too