George Peper: 750 Courses and Counting
About a month ago, I played for the first time a fine links course on England’s Somerset Coast called Burnham & Berrow. Now, normally this would be an occasion of no particular significance—certainly not worth trumpeting in the first line of a LINKS column—but in this instance it meant something. You see, B&B happened to […]
LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 4 – A Golf Road Trip On California’s Highway 1
In this episode, Graylyn takes us through a recent California road trip during which he played several public courses at varying price points between San Francisco and the Monterey Peninsula. He describes his favorite courses, pleasant surprises, best parts of the drive down Highway 1 in a brand new BMW M6 convertible, and his honest […]
The 5 Classic Public Courses Most in Need of Renovation Love
By Adam Schupak We are in the Age of Renovation in golf course architecture. So the title of this piece—choosing only five public courses in need of work—is highly subjective and ripe for debate. (Let the games begin in the comments section!) But we can all agree that many municipal and public courses would […]
LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 2 – How to Fly With Your Clubs
In this episode, Ian and Graylyn discuss some of the dos and don’ts of traveling with your golf clubs. It’s an often forgotten topic when planning a golf trip, but there’s a lot to think about that can make or break your experience. Come for the sound travel advice from Graylyn, stick around to hear […]
The 5 Courses I Want to Play Most
By Graylyn Loomis If you picture the LINKS staff as a group of crazed golf travelers, you’re not far off. On any given day we’re either on, returning from, or planning our next golf adventures and rarely does a week go by when a staffer isn’t visiting a new destination. With all of that […]
Prince’s Golf Club: A Gem in Southeast England
By Graylyn Loomis When the revolutionary rubber-core Haskell Golf Ball arrived in Britain around 1900, it rendered old—and even contemporary—courses obsolete. To combat the problem, a developer decided to build Prince’s Golf Club. It was considered very long at 7,000 yards when it opened in 1906 and was heralded as a course for the […]
Kauai’s Prince Course is Reborn
By Erik Matuszewski For years, the Prince Course on Kauai has been shrouded in mystery. The challenging layout, a visual stunner which plays over and through valleys, ravines and rivers on Kauai’s lush north shore, hasn’t been open to play since the end of 2014 yet somehow remained on various top 100 course ranking […]
Clubs Without Courses: How Some Golf Clubs Thrive Without a Home Track
When Sean Ogle abandoned the life of a financial analyst and began writing the blog “Breaking 80,” he never imagined how many fellow golfers would reach out and invite him to play golf at their home courses. Realizing he had formed an impressive network of “golf geeks,” Ogle decided there must be a better way […]
100 Years of Pebble Beach: New Reasons to Stay
By James A. Frank In 2019, Pebble Beach Golf Links will celebrate its 100th birthday and host its sixth U.S. Open. To commemorate these milestones, each issue of LINKS Magazine and LINKSdigital between now and then will tell the unique story that is Pebble Beach. Those articles will also be shared here on our website. […]
Frugal Golfer: Niagara Falls
By Chris Wagner Mention Niagara Falls and the first thoughts that come to mind are wonder-of-the-world waterfalls, heavenly honeymoon hotels, and rainbows appearing magically in the mist. For golfers, the Niagara Falls areas on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border hold an unexpected treat, a flood of fine courses that are a barrel of fun. […]
