Made-for-TV golf is back—and a venue new to most of us will host the players on Friday. Panther National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will host the Skins Game on Amazon Prime with the likes of Tommy Fleetwood, Xander Schaufelle, Keegan Bradley and Shane Lowry. This’ll be a rare opportunity to get a peek inside Read more…
So many new golf courses are opening these days, it can be tough to keep track. Trout National has had the attention of the industry for more than two years since it was announced perennial MLB All-Star and three-time MVP Mike Trout and Tiger Woods were partnering together to build a new course. RELATED: America’s 25 Read more…
Golf course superintendents spend all season trying to avoid and curb criticism from nit-picking golfers. What’s their reward? Well, at many clubs, the end of the season is the traditional time for “Superintendent’s Revenge” tournaments, where the goal is flipped. How can I set up the course in the most brutally unforgiving way possible? That’s Read more…
It’s been a big couple of weeks for those seeking out the next middle-of-nowhere golf destination. Just a few weeks after the preview opening of Rodeo Dunes in Colorado, the next project by Michael Keiser, co-owner of Sand Valley, has been announced with the soft opening of Wild Spring Dunes. RELATED: Texas is booming with some Read more…
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…
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…
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…
By 11 o’clock in the morning, when the shuttle driver dropped me off after a 10-minute trip from Siem Reap center in northwest Cambodia, it was already sweltering hot. The air was so weighed by humidity that I felt I was swimming, rather than walking, past manicured garden boxes and restrained swaths of jungle to Read more…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…