Robert Trent Jones Golf Club Revisited

Of the 500 courses designed by one of the biggest names in course architecture, only one offers a golf experience that is special enough to be worthy of carrying his name

East Course, The Broadmoor

Two of the greatest architects in the game’s history combined to form a championship test in the rarified air of the Colorado Rockies

West Point Military Academy Golf Course

  Base/Location: United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Par: 70 Yardage: 6,036 Play Policy: Open to the public with reduced rates for the military. The hilly, tree-line terrain more than makes up for what this Robert Trent Jones Sr. course lacks in length. The fast, sloping greens also add greatly to the course’s defense, […]

Eisenhower Golf Club, U.S. Air Force Academy

  Base/Location: United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. Par: 72 Yardage: 7,301 Play Policy: Active duty and retired military, DoD civilians, USAFA contractors, and guests. Located about 30 minutes north of the Broadmoor and sharing similar foothill terrain with fast, sloping greens, the Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed Blue is regarded as perhaps the […]

Woodstock Inn Golf Vacation

  It’s easy to get your Woodstocks confused, so full of them is the Northeast. For the record, the one the music festival is named for is in upstate New York. The one where rich Bostonians all have ski chalets is in New Hampshire. And the one where you can tee it up on a […]

Interlachen Country Club, Minnesota

  When Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open, Interlachen Country Club etched its name in American golf history. With his victory, Jones set golf partisans on edge. He was already the British Amateur and British Open champ that year, and the Grand Slam was within reach. The fact that Interlachen hosted the U.S. Open […]

Eugene Country Club, Oregon

In 1899, in a cow pasture outside the fledgling city of Eugene, Oregon, a group of university professors and local businessmen formed the South Willamette Golf Club, forerunner of Eugene Country Club. Like the rapidly developing territory surrounding it, the club, which switched to its current name in 1912, experienced growing pains. After a 1920 […]

Metedeconk National Golf Club

  Metedeconk National is a secluded retreat located in Jackson, the geographic center of New Jersey. Yet, it has the advantage of being situated just 60 miles south of Manhattan. It tries hard to be a rustic, off-the-beaten-path golf retreat, but its facilities are so good, its 27 holes so well-crafted and maintained, that it’s […]

Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia

  For Donald Ross, the meccas are Dornoch and Pinehurst; for Bobby Jones, it’s Augusta National; for Jack Nicklaus, Muirfield Village. And for Robert Trent Jones Sr., “Trent,” as he was known, it’s his namesake club in the rolling hills of northern Virginia. Glenn Smickley was course superintendent during construction and grow-in back in 1989 […]