10 of Golf’s Polarizing Par Threes

Whether because of design, difficulty, setting, or situation, sometimes a golf hole just doesn’t fit our eye or sensibilities. A hole that is loved by some (or many) may be loathed by others. Of course, that just speaks to one of the unique beauties of golf: the playing field is always different. What follows is […]
Playing Trump Turnberry After its Major Renovation
By Graylyn Loomis When Turnberry opened in 1901 it was heralded as one of Scotland’s best new links courses. Sadly, a few decades later the course was closed and flattened during the first and second World Wars to create a large airfield for Royal Air Force training. In 1950 the course was reopened after a […]
Gil Hanse Tweaks Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster
With his populist presidential bid and the latest tweaks at Doral, Donald Trump is resonating with ‘the little guy’
You Need to Play in The Great Irish Links Challenge
Getting to go to Ireland is on just about every golfer’s bucket list. Getting to play in a tournament while there makes it just that much better
First Peek at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point
Even the most diehard New Yorkers haven’t heard of Ferry Point, a little bit of the Bronx that sticks into the East River under the Whitestone Bridge. That anonymity is about to change.
Trump National Doral, Blue Monster Renovation
Just in time for the WGC-Cadillac Championship, Messrs. Trump and Hanse have unveiled their beefed-up beast of a Blue Course
When You’re Locker Neighbors with The Donald
By Jack Purcell, 2013 In 1984, when I was working as a junior ad sales rep at Sports Illustrated, I had the good fortune of getting a membership to Winged Foot. On my first day I was assigned a locker in the upper locker room right next to Donald Trump’s. That afternoon, as I was changing […]
Trump Doonbeg, Ireland
Routed through massive dunes on the southwest Irish coast, this Greg Norman design is a quintessential links layout that returns again and again to the sea
Trump International Golf Links: Great Dunes, Grand Dreams
Despite a storm of opposition, remote location and downturn in the golf market, Donald Trump is moving forward with his ambitious Scottish golf project along the North Sea
Trump International Golf Links, Scotland
He promised “the greatest golf course in the world” and The Donald has clearly given it his best shot