Who’s Your Favorite Golfer? And Why Even Have One?
By James A. Frank We’re doing a survey. Two questions, very easy. First question: Who is your favorite golfer? Second question: Why? Okay, maybe it isn’t so easy after all. Because while I’m pretty sure you have a favorite golfer, explaining your rationale can be difficult. Fandom is a curious thing. Why do average […]
100 Years of Pebble Beach: The U.S. Open

In 2019, Pebble Beach Golf Links will celebrate its 100th birthday and host its sixth U.S. Open. To commemorate these milestones, each issue of LINKS Magazine and LINKSdigital between now and then will tell the unique story that is Pebble Beach. Those articles will also be shared here on our website. As Pebble Beach Golf Links […]
Beau Welling: Person of Interest

For years, the unofficial title of “golf’s most interesting man” has belonged to Miguel Angel Jimenez. But let us make the case for Beau Welling. Consider the course designer’s extensive range of interests and accomplishments. He is a great fan of the arts and sits on the board of the Carolina Ballet Theatre. During the […]
Seeing the Tiger Effect From Inside the Ropes

The Tiger Woods effect, to quote a favorite Seinfeld line, is real and it is spectacular. Even Elvis was in the building to see the latest Tiger Woods comeback tour when he threatened to win for the first time in five years at the Valspar Championship.https://twitter.com/AdamSchupak/status/972895048948965376 It’s funny how fast we forget how much he […]
A Conversation with Mike "Fluff" Cowan
By Adam Schupak He’s caddied for Tiger Woods and Peter Jacobsen, now works with Jim Furyk, and is more recognizable than many of today’s players. So what are his favorite memories, what was it like when he started, and how did he get that nickname? Q. What is your fondest memory of being on the […]
George Peper: The Last Tee
What the game needs now is more Codger Courses
Tiger To Redesign Chicago Public Courses?
If you believe the rumors, Woods is going to be very busy in the not-too-distant future
The End of the Grand Slam of Golf
Golf’s new realities sound the death knell for a tournament that brought together the year’s major champions
First Peek at Bluejack National
Tall trees, sizable elevation changes, and an absence of rough give Tiger’s first U.S. design an Augusta National look and feel
Opening Ace at the Playgrounds at Bluejack National
The perfect way to open the Playgrounds at Tiger’s first completed US design