Tom Doak Redesign of San Francisco Golf Club
Nearly six decades ago, the city of San Francisco announced plans to build a freeway abutting the eastern border of the property that makes up San Francisco Golf Club. Faced with such an intrusion, the intensely private club set out to rework the three holes nearest to the road on the only A.W. Tillinghast […]
Interlachen Country Club, Minnesota
When Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open, Interlachen Country Club etched its name in American golf history. With his victory, Jones set golf partisans on edge. He was already the British Amateur and British Open champ that year, and the Grand Slam was within reach. The fact that Interlachen hosted the U.S. Open […]
Pecan Valley Golf Club, Texas
If your name is Arnold Palmer, even your failures can give a place a reputation. At San Antonio’s Pecan Valley Golf Club, it’s been more than three decades since Palmer’s second-place finish to Julius Boros in the 1968 PGA Championship, but locals still talk about the King’s dollar-short heroics like it was yesterday. Boros, […]
Olympia Fields Country Club, Illinois
Golf bag slung over my shoulder, I hail a cab from in front of a Chicago hotel, ride seven blocks to Randolph Station and board a southbound Metra train, which rolls out of the Loop at 7:48 on a Saturday morning. The Sears Tower and John Hancock Building receding into the skyline behind us […]
Pound Ridge Golf Club, New York
Pete Dye’s courses have induced plenty of different states among golfers, from the frustration of hitting multiple shots into the water at TPC Sawgrass’ 17th hole to the elation of hitting a career drive toward the lighthouse at Harbour Town Golf Links’ 18th hole. But until now, there was one state Dye had never explored: New York. […]
Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club, California
Amid the four-lane concrete highways of sprawling San Diego County, a commercial neighborhood ends by offering Encinitas Boulevard motorists a choice of narrow, winding roads. Veering right, the traveler starts down a winding lane shaded by sycamores and live oaks, seemingly headed for San Diego’s agricultural backcountry. But locals know this as the access […]
Ekwanok Country Club, Vermont
The Old Man’s design debut remains the unsurpassed paragon of golf in the Green Mountain State
Champions Golf Club, Houston, Texas
For Jack Burke Jr., it is not enough for the Champions Golf Club merely to possess two of the Southwest’s most admired golf courses. For a club to be worth its salt, it first and foremost must succeed as a club. Members and employees alike must be totally committed to making every aspect of the club as good as […]
Chicago Golf Club, Illinois
To some people, old fashioned is a cocktail; to others it’s a lifestyle. But to the members of America’s oldest 18-hole golf course, Chicago Golf Club, it is the defining characteristic. The club was old fashioned when it started 115 years ago, it’s that way today, and God willing, it will stay that way […]
Upstate New York: An Overshadowed Golf Region
When it comes to golf in the state of New York, most of the attention is focused on the New York City metropolitan area—for good reason. After all, it is home to U.S. Open sites Bethpage, Shinnecock Hills and Winged Foot, not to mention courses like National Golf Links of America, Maidstone, Garden City and Quaker Ridge that […]