A Preview of Shorty’s: The New Par-3 Course at Bandon Dunes
His parents knew him as Warren, but to everyone else he was “Shorty.” Shorty Dow, caretaker (or, as he put it, “governor, mayor, and sheriff”) of the wild, 1,250-acre property on the Oregon coast that Mike Keiser would eventually transform into what might be the greatest golf resort in the world, Bandon Dunes, earned the […]
First Peek at The Hay: Pebble Beach’s New Short Course
One of the nation’s most coveted golf resorts gets even more attractive with its Tiger Woods-designed par-3 course Golf’s greatest meeting of land and sea hardly needs another selling point. Yet later this year, America’s most iconic golf resort will unveil a rejuvenated short course designed by a rising name in the golf-design business, Tiger […]
3’s Greenville
Back in the 1920s, golf’s number-one visionary was a cheerful Chicagoan named Herb Graffis. He co-founded the National Golf Foundation, the Club Managers Association, Course Superintendents Association, and Golf Writers Association, not to mention GOLF Magazine. For those and many other contributions he was among the first class of inductees into the World Golf Hall […]
The “Baddest” Par-3 Courses in the U.S.
The twisted dead trees planted around the holes at the “Bad Little Nine” are a sure sign of what’s in store for golfers at Scottsdale National Golf Club’s fiendishly fun par-3 course. Deep bunkers are everywhere, some sprawling and others a devilish pock. There are humps and bumps the likes of which you’ve likely never […]
Plans Revealed for Tiger Woods’s New Short Course at Pebble Beach
Tiger Woods already had a well-known relationship with Pebble Beach Golf Links after his thrilling 15-shot U.S. Open victory two decades ago. Woods and Pebble Beach have since decided to formalize that relationship with the announcement that the 15-time major champion and his TGR Design team would be overhauling the former site of the Peter […]
New 14-Hole Short Course “QuickSands” Coming to Gamble Sands
David McLay Kidd and Troon Golf recently announced that ground has been broken on a 14-hole short course called “QuickSands” at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Wash.—the first of its kind in the state of Washington. The property’s second course joins the original McLay Kidd-designed 18-hole Sands course, the links style layout set in the high […]
Short and Sweet: 9-Hole, Par 3, and Short Courses are the Future
Nine-holers, Par-3s, and other abbreviated courses are all the rage–and could be the secret to reviving golf Former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy missed the cut at the 2009 British Open, but that didn’t prevent him from making lasting memories that week. Each day, after practice and following his first two rounds at the Ailsa […]
