Top 20 U.S. Courses for Fall Foliage
When sweater weather arrives in northern climes, the days may grow shorter and the nights longer, but golf’s playing grounds take on a mantle of color that makes playing in autumn a sublime experience. From New England to the Pacific Northwest, with pockets of color extending through mountain regions and as far south as Alabama […]
Top 10 Courses: Portugal
Here’s our list of the top 10 courses across the Atlantic in Portugal 1. MONTE REI (NORTH), Vila Nova de Cacela, Faro At the southern tip of Portugal, this Jack Nicklaus course unfurls between the Serra do Caldeirão mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Bigness is the keynote: Broad fairways, enormous sculpted bunkers, and raised greens […]
Golf’s Most Perilous Courses
Cabo’s Quivira is golf’s ultimate hair-raising adventure Sometimes all we want from a golf experience is a tranquil walk in the park. Occasionally, however, we crave a pulse-quickening thrill ride. For the same reason some choose to go skydiving, watch a horror movie, or drive in Manhattan, the lure of a potentially perilous round of […]
Links Living: Oldfield
High regard for the natural beauty of its Lowcountry setting gives this community on the banks of South Carolina’s Okatie River a feeling of sanctuary Picturesque white paddock fences enclosing grazing horses, majestic live oaks draped with moss, and nostalgic gas lanterns create one of the most welcoming and memorable entrances to a private gated […]
Links Living: Spanish Peaks
Set amid the Montana wilderness, this private golf and ski community is adding to an already impressive slate of four-season amenities At Spanish Peaks Mountain Club in Big Sky, Mont., they say the adventures are as endless as the landscape. That’s not hyperbole. With the namesake range towering in the background, Yellowstone National Park less […]
First Peek: Te Arai Links (North)
The second half of this New Zealand resort should finally get you to fly across the Pacific Tom Doak’s track record in New Zealand already includes two layouts, Cape Kidnappers (opened in 2004) and Tara Iti (2015), that have become fixtures on World Top 100 lists—the latter soaring as high as the second-best course outside […]
Let’s Go Clubbing: The Growing Golf Nightlife Scene
Vibrant new forms of golf are keeping players swinging at non-traditional venues long after the sun goes down—and changing the way we view the game Merriam-Webster defines golf as “a game in which a player using special clubs attempts to sink a ball with as few strokes as possible into each of the 9 or […]
George Peper: On Taking a Break from Golf
Golf and I are currently separated. No pity, please—I haven’t missed a shot in months. The last time I played golf was March. Okay, maybe I did sneak in three rounds in June (a member-guest with my son), but other than that, not so much as a chip shot in the past six months. That’s […]
Living La Dolce Vita: The Best of Golf in Italy
Just in time for the Ryder Cup—the best of golf in Italy Italy has an aura about it. An unmistakable charm that emanates from the language, the art, and the food. The country is familiar, but as a golf destination it remains something of a mystery. All that should change now that the redesigned stadium […]
Geoff Shackelford: A Cup Half Empty
Courses on this side of the Atlantic have made for better Ryder Cup venues than those in Europe. One selection could change all that. Credit for the modern Ryder Cup’s revival starts with continental Europe’s inclusion in 1979 after Great Britain and Ireland grew tired of keeping calm and carrying on. Teams armed with Seves […]
