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Ryder Cup 2023: Italy is not a golf-hungry country, but there’s hope the Cup will change that
In Italy, there are 150 golf courses with at least 18 holes. But the entire country has only 10 more golf courses than the total in Los Angeles County, where Italy’s greatest ever golfer, Francesco Molinari, now lives.
How To Beat The Ryder Cuppers
Players, caddies, coaches and others expose the weaknesses that can cost you a match.
What makes Spain’s Finca Cortesin different than any other Solheim Cup course
Weather is more than likely to play a role in the type of golf asked for this week. In particular, the wind can gust erratically due to course’s proximity to the Mediterranean Sea and the nearby Gibraltar Strait.
Presidents Cup preview: Stirring the pot
How varying the setup at Quail Hollow – and future venues could intensify the Presidents Cup.
The Presidents Cup: How To Make It Better
Aussie great Jack Newton says the Presidents Cup has lost its lustre and the time is right for a makeover.
Home Game
After a series of Ryder Cup disappointments, here’s why the us team might win at Hazeltine.
A closer look at the interesting line-up of courses set to host future PGA Championships
In the next decade, the PGA will continue to return to familiar host sites – notably Quail Hollow in 2025, Baltusrol in 2029 and Kiawah Island’s Ocean course in 2031 – but also will visit courses last seen on the men’s side when they hosted the US Open, including San Francisco’s Olympic Club and Congressional, located just outside Washington, DC.
You and your friends can play like the pros at the new Omni PGA Frisco Resort
Start a new tradition unlike any other and plan your next golf outing at Omni PGA Frisco Resort, not only the home of modern golf, but also host to 26 future PGA Championship tournaments. With two 18-hole courses, Fields Ranch East and Fields Ranch West, Omni PGA Frisco Resort is a golfer’s paradise when deciding Read more…
Pinehurst announces open date for its new No.10 course, designed by Tom Doak
Major golf developments are nothing new for Pinehurst, but the announcement that its brand-new #10 course will open in April 2024 is one of the most impressive in modern times. The Tom Doak design will be the North Carolina resort’s first original new 18-hole opening since #8 opened in 1996. Pinehurst’s goal was to have Read more…
Fishin’ Holes: Top Courses that Double as an Angler’s Paradise
Most golfers view water hazards as a nuisance to be avoided at all costs. But no angler passes these ponds without daydreaming about casting a line. These hazards provide a heaven for bass, often untouched by humans, making them coveted honey holes. But what if golfers and anglers both took on the water hazards in Read more…
Par Excellence on the Indochina Peninsula
With travel restrictions and other hurdles of the pandemic behind it, Vietnam continues to grow its stable of world-class golf properties to buttress its reputation as a bucket-list destination.
Coring greens, as explained by a top course superintendent
As golfers, we know punching those tiny core holes and filling them with sand is a necessary evil, but do we really know why it’s necessary?
Geoff Ogilvy secures Medinah No.3 renovation at cost of $US23.5 million
Geoff Ogilvy has quietly built an impressive portfolio of course design work across Australia and Asia. Now he and his firm of Ogilvy, Cocking and Mead have secured a large-scale project at one of golf’s well-known tournament courses to preserve its status as a sought-out venue for Major championships.
PGA Championship 2020: Harding Park, What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been
How the PGA Championship came to San Francisco, bumps and all.
AT&T Byron Nelson event leaving Trinity Forest after 2020
While the move to Trinity Forest – a Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw designed that opened in 2014 – was welcomed by architecture fans, the tournament has suffered a series of woes the past two years.
Muirfield Village announces two-year, two-phase renovation helmed by Jack Nicklaus
Muirfield Village opened in 1974 at 6,381 metres. By the end of the renovation the course will measure 6,823 metres.
USGA Confidential
Phil’s fiasco (and others) have exposed a deepening rift between the ruling body and the game’s best players, who once even considered a boycott of the US Open.
On A Mission
The largest golf complex in the world offers more experiences and greater variation than you might suspect of a one-stop destination.
Empire State of Mind
Why eight-time International team member Adam Scott is on a mission to topple a Presidents Cup dynasty in the Big Apple.
