North Carolina’s 10 Best Historic Tournament Courses
Judging the quality of design and significance as a tournament host, here are the 10 best historic tournament courses in North Carolina.
11 Things to Know About Pinehurst Resort’s New Course: No. 11
Just over a year after the debut of the No. 10 course, Pinehurst has unveiled its plans for course No. 11, designed by Coore & Crenshaw.
10 U.S. States with the Most Golf Courses
The top 10 U.S. states with the most golf courses, each boasting 500 or more. See which states make the list.
Red Hot Golf Courses of the Blue Ridge Mountains
The temps are cool but the golf courses smokin’ in the Blue Ridge mountains that range from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
7 Great “Mountain” Golf Courses You Can Play
What are some of top golf courses that have the word “mountain,” or a version thereof, as a part of their name?
10 Top Golf and Beach Options for Summer
I’m often told that man does not live by golf alone (usually by non-golfers). And in the summertime, one of the chief non-golf activities that I and other golfers enjoy is spending time swimming and lounging by the sea. Lakes and ponds can have beaches—and some rivers do, too. But they can’t compare to going […]
What to Know About USGA’s Golf House Pinehurst
Since its inception, the USGA has amassed the most extensive collection of golf artifacts and memorabilia in the world. The USGA Museum was originally located in New York City, but the organization eventually chose a location in Liberty Corner, N.J., where the museum opened to visitors in 1972 in a location adjacent to USGA headquarters. […]
Best Public Golf Around Pinehurst
Come for one of the country’s premier golf resorts—but stay (or come back) for the incredible collection of public courses around Pinehurst Let’s cut to the chase. There’s one reason every golfer wants to haul their sticks to the middle of North Carolina: taking on Donald Ross’s “Mona Lisa,” Course No. 2, and the rest […]
13 Years Later: Bill Coore Reflects on the Restoration of Pinehurst No. 2
Of course they were honored—which golf course architect wouldn’t be? Of course they were humbled—again, would anyone whose vocation in life was to build, renovate, and revive great golf courses not question if they were up to the task, if only for a moment? And yes, of course they were a little nervous about the […]
Tot Hill Farm: A Mike Strantz Gem is Restored in North Carolina
There’s something about playing a Mike Strantz-designed golf course. As an 18-hole exercise, the experience for golfers routinely borders on surreal, with one abstract hole after the next. And there’s a rareness, certainly, given that the artistic “Maverick” gifted the golf world just seven original designs before tragically passing away at the age of 50 […]
