Pebble Beach’s iconic Tap Room reopens after significant renovations

One of golf’s most iconic 19th holes has gotten a facelift. Pebble Beach’s Tap Room reopened this week after one of its most significant renovations since opening in 1949. Generations of golfers have retired to the iconic bar/steakhouse after battling historic Pebble Beach Golf Links, having a few pints and the resort’s renowned prime-rib chili. Read more…

The 25 best trees in golf

In the early 1990s, Oakmont Country Club—host of the 2025 U.S. Open, its 15th men’s or women’s major championship and revered as one of the nation’s greatest courses—as covered in trees. Each hole was shrouded in a cloak of timber and leaf, the views of other holes almost non-existent. The members, at least most of Read more…

The Timeless 21: The courses that have been ranked on every list of America’s 100 Greatest Courses

Back in 1855, the Bordeaux wine region of France created a ranking system of its chateaus. Regional merchants and wine cognoscenti developed a novel classification of 58 chateaus based primarily on reputation and trading prices. The estates were separated into five tiers, or “growths,” with four wines—Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Read more…

Bethpage Black’s masterpiece par 5, explained

Bethpage Black’s unforgettable par-5 fourth hole zigzags uphill around enormous bunkers, a curious and beautiful ‘objet d’art’ amid a menagerie of torture devices.

Best Little Golf Towns: Sioux Center, Iowa

It took just over a year, but what began as a definition of terms and followed with further input from the PGA of America, readers like you and lots of shoe-leather reporting from our editors, we’ve now picked four communities that we think represent the ideal of what golf should be. We dispatched Golf Digest Read more…

America’s 75 best golf resorts

The global competition among golf resorts continues to accelerate with the popularity of golf. It’s dizzying but exciting to reflect on the development happening both at golf’s most popular destinations and also new ones popping up. Dozens of new courses have entered our ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses since the last time we Read more…

Best Little Golf Towns: Cortland, New York

It took just over a year, but what began as a definition of terms and followed with further input from the PGA of America, readers like you and lots of shoe-leather reporting from our editors, we’ve now picked four communities that we think represent the ideal of what golf should be. We dispatched Golf Digest Read more…

Best Little Golf Towns: Dupont, Washington

It took just over a year, but what began as a definition of terms and followed with further input from the PGA of America, readers like you and lots of shoe-leather reporting from our editors, we’ve now picked four communities that we think represent the ideal of what golf should be. We dispatched Golf Digest Read more…

Best Little Golf Towns: Aiken, South Carolina

It took just over a year, but what began as a definition of terms and followed with further input from the PGA of America, readers like you and lots of shoe-leather reporting from our editors, we’ve now picked four communities that we think represent the ideal of what golf should be. We dispatched Golf Digest Read more…