The Best Public Golf in Charlotte
North Carolina’s largest city and its outlying suburbs are rich with premier private golf clubs. Residents of the Queen City are familiar with the likes of Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte Country Club, and Carolina Golf Club, but thanks to ongoing restoration and revitalization projects, great public-access golf has also become plentiful in the Charlotte area. […]
Best Public Golf Courses of Palm Springs
There are golf hotbeds around the country and then there are destinations like Palm Springs, Calif., where the label of “Golf Mecca” seems more appropriate. With close to 125 golf courses in the near vicinity, options are aplenty with accessibility extremely high. Here’s a look at five of the best public courses in the Palm […]
Personal Bests
The big-name architects designed courses that anyone-including you-can play. Here are the best from each of them. One of the great things about golf is how many courses are open to the public. Another terrific feature is that so many different individuals brought their aesthetics and expertise to the task of designing courses. Put those […]
TPC Harding Park’s Road to Glory
The venue for this week’s PGA Championship has enjoyed something of a wild ride since opening in July 1925. Designed by Sam Whiting and William Watson whose famed Lake Course at the Olympic Club had opened the year before, TPC Harding Park was originally named Lake Merced Municipal Links but soon was dedicated to President […]
A High-End Myrtle Beach Golf Weekend
Myrtle Beach is one of the great misunderstood golf destinations on the east coast. Some think of it as a golf mecca and others think it has quantity over quality. Until recently, I merely thought of it as my childhood family beach destination and a place I hadn’t visited in a decade. The truth is, […]
Top 10 Courses: Long Island
Home to classic major championship venues, breathtaking modern layouts, and everything in between, Long Island has long been a favorite summertime destination for avid golf travelers. Whether you’re spending the night in your car to save your place in line for the “People’s Country Club” or lucky enough to tee it up at one […]
Top 10 Courses: Ohio
Known mainly to the golf world for producing the great Jack Nicklaus, it should be unsurprising that Ohio boasts an incredibly rich collection of golf courses. Though the Golden Bear has undoubtedly left his mark on a few of these layouts—he grew up practicing at #4 on our list and #1 is famously referred […]
The Full Scoop on Bandon Dunes’s New 5th Course – The Sheep Ranch
By Ian Critser While on a recent trip to Bandon Dunes, we had an unusual resort guest sit next to us at breakfast one morning—Ben Crenshaw. While listeners of the LINKS Golf Podcast will have already heard about this encounter in Part 1 of our Bandon Dunes episode, most won’t know the actual reason he […]
Who Really Designed Bethpage Black?
By Tony Dear A while ago, we asked who deserved the credit for how a golf course turns out—designer, design associate, construction foreman, re-designer, restorer, renovator, shaper, superintendent, some of the above, or all of them. It’s an especially pertinent subject at Bethpage Black as a question mark hangs over the identity of the […]
The New Bobby Jones Golf Course: New Life for Atlanta’s Oldest Public Layout
By the mid 2000s, the Bobby Jones Golf Course was no longer the fitting tribute to its namesake that it was on opening day in 1932. Although it sat on prime real estate in the heart of Atlanta, the city’s oldest public golf course had become hopelessly run-down. It was the type of course that […]
