Ben Wright: A True Player
In a storied career that has netted nine major championships and more than 100 victories worldwide, Gary Player fashioned plenty of great golf shots under the fiercest pressure. With this year’s PGA Championship fast approaching, I can’t help recalling the greatest of these shots I ever witnessed—one that earned him the 1972 PGA title in […]
Quail Hollow Club
A bastion of Southern wealth and power has been reborn as a championship venue for the 21st century
Palmetto Golf Club
One of the oldest clubs in the country becomes one of the hottest during Masters week
McArthur Golf Club
Three-time major winner Nick Price tapped his considerable knowledge earned while playing the world’s best courses to co-design a strategic gem on an enviably sandy Florida landscape
Where to Stay, Eat, and Play Golf in Alabama
What goes better with golf than food? In our latest installment of “Golf Gourmet,” we take you to five fabulous course-and-restaurant combos in L.A.–that’s Lower Alabama, y’all.
West Point Military Academy Golf Course
Base/Location: United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Par: 70 Yardage: 6,036 Play Policy: Open to the public with reduced rates for the military. The hilly, tree-line terrain more than makes up for what this Robert Trent Jones Sr. course lacks in length. The fast, sloping greens also add greatly to the course’s defense, […]
West Virginia: Golf at The Greenbrier
“Taking the waters.” It’s a notion that harkens to another time, when the rich and famous went to the country for the restorative effects of the mineral springs found there. The spirit of modern spas and resorts owes much to these springs, one of the first of which was the one at White Sulphur […]
The Restoration of a MacKenzie Treasure, Pasatiempo Golf Club
Marion Hollins was the preeminent female athlete of the 1920s, earning accolades in tennis, golf, polo and steeplechase. Hollins was also involved in real estate, and managed the development of the Cypress Point Club. She was also the visionary behind Pasatiempo Golf Club, one of the finest public courses in the country. Hollins teamed up with another giant […]
How to play at Augusta National
What would you shoot at Augusta National? Hint: take your worse score ever and add 10 strokes
French Lick’s Third Century
New owners of the French Lick Springs Resort & Spa recently announced plans to renovate the Donald Ross-designed Hill Course there. It was hard to hear the news and not feel anxiety. Followed by trepidation. Angst, even. The Hill is an 85-year-old heirloom, one of the last virtually untouched Ross designs anywhere. To play […]