Every Presidents Cup Course—Ranked
With the Presidents Cup celebrating 30 years, we wondered how each host course compares. Here are the nine host venues, ranked top to bottom.
Golf’s Most Exhilarating Courses
Ireland’s Old Head is golf’s most exhilarating experience There are moments in golf that you wish could be frozen in time: Stepping onto the first tee of the Old Course at St. Andrews; emerging from the trees to greet 15, 16, and 17 at Cypress Point; staring down the daunting approach over the Pacific at […]
Hyperscapes: A Member Club Built Around Virtual Golf Courses
Would you pay $50,000 to join a golf club without an actual course? Hyperscapes Golf Club is the first members-only club built around fully virtual courses, and the first layout—crafted by Nicklaus Design on a stunning Scottish landscape within a recreated Caledonian forest from 6,000 years ago—will be available for member play on golf simulators […]
12 Questions About 2024 PGA Championship Host Valhalla with Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus knows a thing or two about major championship golf. No one has won more majors than the Golden Bear (18). And during his storied career, he played every major championship course you can name. He’s also designed more courses than you can shake a mashie niblick at, including many that have hosted PGA […]
11 Architects Who Directly Influenced Augusta National
Even the most casual golf fan is aware that Augusta National Golf Club was designed by Alister MacKenzie, in tandem with amateur legend and Grand Slam winner Bobby Jones. However, not even serious Masters students realize that nearly 20 prominent figures in the game have effected changes to the course design over the past 90 […]
Jack Nicklaus and The Bear’s Club
It’s 10am on a February Tuesday in Jupiter, Fla. I’m en route to The Bear’s Club to talk to the private golf club’s founder and inspiration, Jack Nicklaus, about the updates completed in late 2023 on his original 1999 design in his South Florida backyard. It’s not every day you get to have a private […]
Short Courses at Golf Communities Are on the Rise
What’s green, fun as well as challenging, and fits in just a couple of acres? The new breed of short courses, which are popping up in top golf communities nationwide. Nearly six years ago, Desert Mountain faced a dilemma. It revolved around a thumbprint of land with no obvious purpose. “The club owned a small, […]
5 Things to Know About Jack Nicklaus and Justin Thomas’s New Course
Jack Nicklaus and Justin Thomas officially unveiled Panther National—the duos’ new co-designed 18-hole course and centerpiece of a new private golf community in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.—with a grand opening in mid-November. The vision of Swiss developer Dominik Senn, a former world-class alpine ski racer turned founder of the 4sports & Entertainment sports management agency, […]
Top 10 Jack Nicklaus Designs You Can Play
If there’s one thing that may eclipse Jack Nicklaus’s legacy as a player, it will be his legacy as a course designer. As Pete Dye once said, “It’s astonishing to me that the same guy who was gifted with the greatest golf skill of the 20th century should also be blessed with such deft creativity.” […]
Palmetto Bluff Continues Its Thrilling Evolution
Already a premier Lowcountry community, Palmetto Bluff is looking forward to an exciting future Turn off the audiobook, hush the kids in the back, open the car windows—and your eyes. You want to be alert when driving into Palmetto Bluff. The four-mile trip from the gatehouse to the first signs of development starts with quintessential […]
