Classic Course: Country Club of Charleston
Rare are the moments, while playing a golf course for the first time, that you round a corner or reach the brow of a hill suddenly to come face to face with a shotmaking assignment so visually arresting that you stop dead in your tracks, speechless except perhaps for a murmured “wow.” Examples that come […]
What’s Tougher: Renovating a Course or Designing New?
When asked if they’d rather build from scratch or renovating existing courses, most architects say they prefer to build new. Some pause a moment, however, before adjusting their response. “Actually, it depends.” There’s a lot to think about. Before taking on a new course, the architect must consider the quality of the site, how far […]
The Hotchkiss School Course: A Raynor Course Open to All
Golf architecture geeks surely know the name Seth Raynor. A local surveyor (and non-golfer) plucked out of obscurity by Charles Blair Macdonald to help him build the National Golf Links on Long Island, Raynor became Macdonald’s partner, the yin to his yang, and following his boss’s “template hole” formula designed a number of notable […]
The 5 Most Underrated Golf States
By Adam Schupak Underrated. By definition it means to underestimate, play down, sell short—you get the drift. For a golf course, or in this case the entire collective layouts of a state to be termed underrated, it’s a bit like being considered The Best Player Never to Win a Major—is it a compliment or […]
Where to Play Golf in Chattanooga, Tennessee
By Graylyn Loomis What are the most underrated golf cities in the United States? Your mind may jump to the Northeast or the West Coast, but you should set your sights southward, and more specifically, to Chattanooga, Tenn. Not only is Chattanooga filled with underappreciated golf, but the city itself has been booming in past […]
Fishers Island Club
From Manhattan Island to Cape Cod, the distance as the crow flies is exactly 200 miles. At the precise midpoint of that route lies the most captivating golf course on the East Coast—and arguably in the world—Fishers Island. It’s not an easy course to get onto, not an easy club to get into, and (unless […]
A Golf Vacation in Cape Cod
When the Army Corps of Engineers gouged 20 million cubic yards of rock and earth from the Massachusetts towns of Bourne and Sandwich in the early 1930s, the great canal they cut became an accepted boundary between Cape Cod and the rest of the world. But lately I have stood on tee boxes at new […]
The Country Club of Charleston
In the city where American golf began, this Seth Raynor gem is a leading example of golden age greatness
A Brief History of Seth Raynor Golf Courses
C.B. Macdonald’s protégé rose to produce an impressive portfolio of his own
The Top 10 Seth Raynor Courses
After apprenticing with America’s first great architect, Charles Blair Macdonald, Seth Raynor went on to design a number of great courses himself that are famous for their template holes and strategic nuance. Here are our Top 10 Seth Raynor Courses. 10. Creek Club Locust Valley, N.Y. While Long Island’s best courses are in the Hamptons, […]
