America’s Best Golf Islands – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 149
Co-hosts Al Lunsford and Joe Passov discuss the appeal of island golf and highlight their choices for the best public golf islands in America on this episode of the LINKS Golf Podcast. This episode is presented by Wild Dunes Resort. You can subscribe to the LINKS Golf Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. […]
The 9 Best Twilight Golf Rounds You Can Play in the U.S.
Teeing off after prime time offers a mixed bag. On the one hand, you’ll get cooling breezes, artist-worthy color textures, and often reduced fees. On the other hand, your round might be called short on account of darkness. Courses to avoid when teeing it up at twilight are any that play through canyons—where daylight vanishes […]
8 Ryder Cup Courses You Can Play
The Ryder Cup has produced memorable moments and legendary matches; yet, aside from delivering a trio of thrilling days of intense match-play golf, the team competition is unique among the sport’s most significant events for the accessibility of its venues. Only six U.S. Open courses (out of more than 50) welcome public golfers. Similarly, fewer […]
The Lesser-Known Golf Courses at Kiawah Island
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Ocean Course, host of the 103rd PGA Championship and one of Pete Dye’s seminal works which was completed just in time to host the Ryder Cup in 1991 (and previously hosted the PGA Championship in 2012), may be the crown jewel at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, but the luxurious resort’s four additional courses collectively […]
Top 10 Courses: South Carolina
Here’s our list of the top 10 courses in the Palmetto State. 1. THE OCEAN COURSE, Kiawah Island Both the best and hardest course in this state, arguably the Southeast. Pete Dye’s artistry combines with ever-present wind to produce an unrelenting test of shotmaking and resolve. It hosted the PGA Championship for a second time in 2021. 2. YEAMANS HALL, […]
5 Public U.S. Courses I HAVE to Play in 2021
I’ve been extremely fortunate to play some of the country’s finest public courses over my 30 years of life. I got my first taste of Pinehurst playing No. 2 shortly after it’s restoration in 2011. In 2012, my dad and I took on Pebble Beach and for the first time I was able to enjoy […]
Fractional Ownership: Great Golf Living at a Fraction of the Price
The day started with an early-morning beach bike ride on Kiawah Island. After that, a bucket-list tee time on the Ocean Course, the most celebrated of the seven golf courses on the South Carolina island. My kids and I hit the pool just steps from the ocean later that afternoon, then ventured out to the […]
The Hardest Round of Your Life
Of all of the rounds you’ve played in your golf lifetime, there are but a few that seem to be etched in your memory in permanent ink. There’s the story of your career-low round, that your friends and family could recite back to you word-for-word. Then there are probably one or two courses you checked […]
Remembering Pete Dye
Pete Dye picked me up at the airport. It was 1988 and I’d flown to Palm Beach to interview him. He told me he’d have a rental car because he and wife Alice were on the road so much they didn’t keep a car at their Florida home, just rented whenever they were there. He’d […]
The Best Pete Dye Golf Courses You Can Play
It’s fair to say Pete Dye will be revered as long as golf is played. Here are a few of his greatest designs that are open to the public.
