U.S. Golf Courses on our 2025 Wish List – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 188
The hosts take turns picking the top three U.S. golf courses they would like to visit and play in 2025—public or private.
Best Courses Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 185
The co-hosts dive into the golf course design career of Robert Trent Jones Jr. and each pick three of their favorite Jones Jr. courses.
5 New Public Courses to Know in 2025 – LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 184
The co-hosts recap a recent trip to a new course opening in Georgia and discuss five notable public courses that are due to open in 2025.
6 Modern Golf Courses with Multiple Drivable Par Fours
Many golf courses with multiple drivable par fours are open to the public—here are six notable modern examples.
Top 10 Kentucky Courses You Can Play
Unfortunately for visiting golfers, 2024 PGA Championship host Valhalla in Louisville, Ky., is private, as are most of the region’s top courses. However, the Bluegrass State boasts a slew of value-oriented, scenery-soaked, public-access layouts. Here are the 10 best courses you can play in Kentucky. Lassing Pointe—Union Long heralded as one of the nation’s top […]
Notable Regulation Courses Under Par-70 in the U.S.
When the newest course at Sand Valley Golf Resort opens this year, it will be very different from the other offerings at the Central Wisconsin destination. Unlike the wider corridors at Sand Valley and especially Mammoth Dunes, Sedge Valley is tighter and shorter, a par-68 layout designed by Tom Doak on an intimate piece of […]
Do You Belong to Multiple Golf Clubs?
7 Golf Getaways That Mix Public and Private Courses
In the remote Sandhills of northwest Nebraska, on the rim of the Snake River canyon and about a half hour from the South Dakota border, the Prairie Club is a golf destination like no other. Not only might it be the only golf resort with two 18-hole championship courses that each play to a par […]
Want to Play Pine Valley?
Is this a bait-and-switch? Admittedly, yes. Sorry about that. I’m a lifelong New Jersey resident who’s always lived about an hour from the hallowed grounds of Pine Valley Golf Club and the nation’s perennial top-rated course… and has yet to play it. Sure, I still hold out hope. That’s what we do as golfers—hope and […]
Top 10 Lakeside Courses You Can Play
Many course connoisseurs opine that there’s nothing better than oceanside golf. However, there’s plenty to be said for the glories of golf on a lake. Some lakeside golf experiences deliver so much beauty and challenge that they can vie with any of the top-ranked courses set next to oceans, bays, gulfs, or sounds. Based on […]