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 […]
Quaker Ridge Golf Club
There are low-profile courses, and there are really low-profile courses. Then there’s Quaker Ridge Golf Club, which has long held the reputation of being one of America’s most low-key classic courses. For those familiar with its virtues, Quaker Ridge is as well regarded and admired as nearly any course in the country. For most […]
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 […]
The Golf Club, Columbus, Ohio
The name was as simple as the design was revolutionary. It was 1967 when Pete Dye unveiled The Golf Club, one of his greatest yet still lesser-known masterpieces. Autocratic owner Fred Jones instructed Dye, a former insurance salesman who was just getting started in the design business, to build a course that would “feel […]
Lost Dunes Golf Club
“That’s my goal every round I play here,” Tom Doak confesses as he lines up yet another four-foot for par. “Not to three-putt. I don’t think I’ve succeeded yet.” Doak wears a serene expression on a cloudy October day at Lost Dunes Golf Club in Bridgman, Michigan, a half-mile from Lake Michigan’s gently breaking waves […]
Cascades Course at Omni Homestead Resort, Virginia
It‘s widely touted as America’s finest mountain layout, but the Cascades course at the Homestead actually lies in a valley surrounded by the densely wooded hills of the Alleghenies. Regardless of how it’s labeled, most golfers would agree with the legendary Sam Snead, who calls it “the most complete course I know of.” William […]
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 […]
Scioto Country Club, Ohio
By: Jeff Lyttle Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, will forever be indelibly linked with one of the greatest golfers of all time: Jack Nicklaus. It was, however, another great—Bobby Jones—who put Scioto on the golf map. Jones came to Scioto’s then par-5 18th hole in the final round of the 1926 U.S. Open needing […]
