Top 10 Co-Designed Public Courses in the U.S.
With each memorable Masters Tournament, we are treated to one of architecture’s greatest design collaborations, with Alister MacKenzie and Bobby Jones responsible for the creation of Augusta National. Sixty-five years later, Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus teamed up to craft Harbour Town, a beloved PGA Tour venue since 1969. What those courses proved is that […]
PGA Frisco: Behind the PGA of America’s New Home in Texas
PGA Frisco, the new home of the PGA of America, boasts two freshly built courses ready to challenge the world’s best—and you At PGA Frisco, just north of Dallas, the 14th hole on Fields Ranch West is aptly branded “Big Country.” The subtle dogleg-left plays notably uphill to a well-guarded green that is exceedingly wide, […]
A 6-Course Public Golf Trip in Orlando
Where else can you enjoy the work of everyone from Arnold Palmer to Mickey Mouse? The scouting report on the Orlando golf scene can best be summed up as quantity over quality. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t courses worth schlepping your clubs along for the ride when joining the masses coming to the most-visited […]
Golf’s Most Exhaustive Tests
Bethpage Black is golf’s ultimate taxing test Some golf courses challenge with gargantuan length, others with a parade of hazards. Add slick, undulating greens, fairways squeezed by long grass, and targets shrunk by stiff breezes and you have some of earth’s toughest courses. A select few among those brutes will flat out exhaust you by […]
First Peek: Point Hardy Golf Club
Prepare to be stunned by Coore & Crenshaw’s first course in the Caribbean I don’t want to sound too dramatic. But in ranking the courses with the most spectacular settings for golf in the world—with appropriate acknowledgment to places like Old Head, Lofoten Links, and Cypress Point—Point Hardy Golf Club, opening in December as part […]
10 Courses that Resemble Augusta National
Dreaming of dogwoods and azaleas, but find that a tee time at Augusta National is out of reach? There’s a fistful of courses in the U.S. that embody many, though certainly not all, of the virtues of Augusta National. Some layouts approach the ambience, others the conditioning and design, and still others the floral displays. […]
The 10 Most Significant Augusta National Course Changes
The home of the Masters has undergone annual changes of all kinds. This unscientific ranking takes into account the impact on the course and on tournaments. 10. Rae’s Creek tributary fronting the 13th green is allowed to fill with more running water in the late 1980s, only to be undone following criticism from the likes […]
Links Living: Tesoro Club
The rebirth of this proud Treasure Coast community’s once-abandoned golf courses has been nothing short of remarkable. What a difference new ownership makes. “When I first came through the gates of Tesoro Club, my initial impression was the sheer beauty of it,” says Roderick O’Connor, part of Tesoro’s ownership trio that also includes Timothy Jones […]
What We Know About the New 13th Tee at Augusta National
Here’s what we know about Augusta National’s ambitious 13th tee: pretty much everything—minus one elusive detail Not long ago, players would turn up Masters week and get asked about course changes. Some reported phantom revisions, insisting the club had tweaked and tugged away at the design when no such thing occurred. The Lords of Augusta […]
Geoff Shackelford: The Tee Box Affair at Augusta National
A real-life, Grishamesque thriller is coming in April, full of high-stakes machinations, Southern charm, and unsuspecting protagonists How, you ask, could a closely mown rectangle become a non-coma-inducing potboiler? The intrigue centers around the forthcoming fuss over a tee at Augusta National debuting after years of speculation. Anyone with a golf pulse will opine on […]
