5 of Canada’s Top Golf Resorts
A glance at the top ranks of players on the PGA Tour these days brings many red Maple Leaf Flags to the forefront. Any given week, it’s likely that a good chunk of the Tour’s top 50 players will be Canadian born. Yes, the Canucks are coming on strong at the professional level, but when […]
8 Golf Courses with Unique Pin Flags
Landmand Golf Club is oversized in a great many ways, with the King-Collins design sprawling across 588 acres of Nebraska farmland—almost four times the size of an average 18-hole golf course. The bunkers are fearsomely large, the greens massive. And to fit the scale of the putting surfaces, the pin flags are oversized as well. […]
10 Courses with Great Collections of Par Threes
Nearly 30 years ago in the pages of LINKS Magazine, author/broadcaster Ben Wright opined that the Golden Horseshoe’s Gold course in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., featured the best set of par threes on a single course of any he knew. Bentley was a shrewd, well-traveled judge—and a designer himself—so I’ll give him his due. I also […]
Top 10 Golf Trip Drives for 2021
Road trip. Two ordinary words that conjure up visions of adventure by the mile and new discoveries at every turn. Is there a golfer anywhere who wouldn’t like to be loading up his or her clubs and hitting the road right now with a significant other or a bunch of friends? I know I would. […]
Links Courses of The Americas: The Few, the Proud, and the Imposters
The British Golf Museum defines a links course as “a stretch of land near the coast characterized by undulating terrain, often associated with dunes, infertile sandy soil, and indigenous grasses such as marram, sea lyme, and the fescues and bents which, when properly managed, produce the fine-textured, tight turf for which links are famed.” By definition, there are […]
