Quail Hollow’s Championship Pedigree
Quail Hollow Club, host of the 2025 PGA Championship, defies the usual standards for a major venue, yet its tournament history is impressive.
9 of Golf’s Great Quarry Courses
There’s no doubt you’ve come across a few examples of golf courses with the word “quarry” in their name. And while many of them are brandished with that moniker for obvious reasons—i.e., they’re routed across lands that previously hosted commercial excavations of rock or sand—not all of them exhibit evidence of those extreme, land-altering operations. […]
Tom Fazio: Dean of Design
Tom Fazio just turned 80, yet remains as ubiquitous as anyone in the design business, dominiating the last six decades of golf architecture.
Modern Classics: The Ridge at Back Brook
At The Ridge at Back Brook, Tom Fazio carved a big, bold, and beautiful course out of the forests and hills of rural New Jersey.
First Peek: Richland at Reynolds Lake Oconee
Richland, the seventh course at Georgia resort/communty Reynolds Lake Oconee, blends a bit of old with a bit of new.
Top Mountain Courses in 10 American West States
Mountain golf is different. It’s three-dimensional chess, with elevation changes that factor into the way you approach just about every shot. America’s western states are blessed with dozens of superb mountain tracks, from hillside bucking-bronco rides to others that are gentler canters through quiet valleys surrounded by towering peaks. Many of the west’s more impressive […]
11 Architects Who Directly Influenced Augusta National
Even the most casual golf fan is aware that Augusta National Golf Club was designed by Alister MacKenzie, in tandem with amateur legend and Grand Slam winner Bobby Jones. However, not even serious Masters students realize that nearly 20 prominent figures in the game have effected changes to the course design over the past 90 […]
All 18: A Photo Tour of Congaree Golf Club
Tom Fazio’s Congaree Golf Club—modeled after the courses of the Australian Sandbelt—is built for the ground game, characterized by firm and fast conditions, slippery runoffs into hazards, sharp bunker edges, and plenty of sand. Built in 2017, the private club, nestled 45 minutes inland from the South Carolina coast, has no rough, instead featuring 130 […]
The Lesser-Known Golf Courses at Kiawah Island
The Ocean Course, host of the 103rd PGA Championship and one of Pete Dye’s seminal works which was completed just in time to host the Ryder Cup in 1991 (and previously hosted the PGA Championship in 2012), may be the crown jewel at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, but the luxurious resort’s four additional courses collectively […]
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 […]
