Top Public Golf in San Francisco
The City by the Bay is a great city in which to play Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner once called San Francisco “49 square miles surrounded by reality.” The area of this city pressed between ocean and bay may be limited, but the number of golf facilities available to the public is not, and for […]
America’s Top 10 Munis
The chief requirement for making this list is that the golf course must be owned by a municipality. We’re judging here on the quality of the design, test of golf, scenic appeal, and tournament lore. For best-value munis? We’ll leave that for another time. Here then are the 10 best municipal courses in the U.S. […]
TPC Harding Park’s Road to Glory
The venue for this week’s PGA Championship has enjoyed something of a wild ride since opening in July 1925. Designed by Sam Whiting and William Watson whose famed Lake Course at the Olympic Club had opened the year before, TPC Harding Park was originally named Lake Merced Municipal Links but soon was dedicated to President […]
Best New or Returning Courses on Tour in 2020
For the most part the traveling circus of professional golf tours visit many of the same venues year after year. On the PGA Tour, January begins in Hawaii, springtime swings through Augusta, and the fall takes golfers to wine country. But each year we’re also treated to a either a few new courses on tour, […]
The Future of Municipal Golf Courses
The future of municipal courses in America is a subject of great concern with course closures on pace to exceed openings for yet another year. Many of the approximately 2,500 municipal golf facilities in the U.S. face an uncertain future despite making positive impacts with an often-conflicting responsibility—providing an affordable community recreation option while still […]
The Dream California Golf Road Trip
Highway 1. The Pacific Coast Highway. The famous road along the California coast goes by different names depending on where you are in the state. But in Northern California, where I recently spent a week, it’s Highway 1. The last time I drove from San Francisco to Carmel, I left at 3:30 in the morning […]
Top 5 TPC Courses You Can Play
With the return of PGA West’s infamous TPC Stadium Course to the Career Builder Challenge this week, here are the best layouts in the TPC Network open to the public
