Golf Cruises Are Growing in Popularity
The day Ernie Els captured the Claret Jug in the gloaming at the 2002 Open at Muirfield, he’d barely tipped his cap before my wife, Sue, and I were making our way back down the 18th fairway to the beach. “Hurry,” I said. “Our hotel’s leaving in 30 minutes.” At the shoreline, we stepped into […]
10 Remote Courses That Are Worth the Trip
When Mike Keiser created Bandon Dunes on the windswept coast of Oregon, it involved a leap of faith. It wasn’t so much a matter of “Build it and they will come,” but of, “If you build it and it’s really good, they will come.” And come, they have. Keiser and Canadian development partner Ben Cowan-Dewar […]
Ranking the World: Rest of the World
With the fourth and final installment of our series ranking the world’s golf nations (outside the U.S.) we consider the remainder of the globe, from South America to South Africa, Canada to the Caribbean The final in our four-part series ranking the best golf countries outside the U.S. looks at the Rest of the World, […]
Links Courses of The Americas: The Few, the Proud, and the Imposters
The British Golf Museum defines a links course as “a stretch of land near the coast characterized by undulating terrain, often associated with dunes, infertile sandy soil, and indigenous grasses such as marram, sea lyme, and the fescues and bents which, when properly managed, produce the fine-textured, tight turf for which links are famed.” By definition, there are […]
Top 10 Golf Courses in South America
1. Jockey Club (Red) San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina South America’s best collection of courses is in Argentina, and this one by Alistair MacKenzie leads the way. The Red Course, the Good Doctor said, “has a greater resemblance not only in appearance but in the character of its golf, to the Old Course in St. Andrews […]
My Top 5: Diego Bustos
The CNN en Español sports anchor lists his favorite courses south of the border
