Nearly every golfer understands it’s their responsibility to rake a bunker after they hit from it, but what should they do after that? Should they leave the rake inside or outside the bunker?
Virginia’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Club wasn’t designed by its namesake purposefully for matchplay, but it assumed status as one of the USA’s premier team-competition venues.
It’s a rare week in professional golf when the golf course is the star. Royal County Down, on rugged, windblown topography along the Irish Sea and beneath the Mountains of Mourne, hosts the 2024 Amgen Irish Open this week on the DP World Tour.
Whether it be a club championship, member-guest or state amateur, every course, no matter the budget, prepares for tournaments throughout the year. Golfers have high expectations for course conditions during these weeks, so what are some things that courses can do to make these events particularly special? That’s the question we put to two experts Read more…
When Castle Pines Golf Club hosts this week’s BMW Championship, it will look a lot different from the last time the PGA Tour visited the course in 2006, the last year of The International. Created by Castle Pines founder Jack Vickers, The International was one of the most unique events on the schedule. Held for Read more…
Architect David McLay Kidd’s peer group of golf course designers, as least by his estimation, is small. It consists of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, Tom Doak, and Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. This makes sense given that these four design/build operations have accounted for the majority of top ranked courses over the last 25 years, Read more…
“These greens are so much faster than the putting green,” is one of the golf’s most common excuses – so common, in fact, that we decided to ask a superintendent if it holds any merit.
When The Cabot Collection announced in 2022 that it had acquired Castle Stuart in Inverness, Scotland, rebranded Cabot Highlands with a second course by Tom Doak now under construction, it was the luxury resort developer’s first venture into Europe. Cabot has now purchased the Golf du Médoc in Bordeaux, France, marking an expansion into the Read more…
The landscape of golf has changed since the 2018 Ryder Cup. The host venue for Europe’s rout of the Americans, Le Golf National, returns to the spotlight again as the host of the 2024 Olympics for the men’s and women’s competitions—and the course will play differently than the last time most American golf fans saw Read more…
TROON, Scotland — Two of the most boring things in the world are making excuses and forcing other people to listen to your travel woes. Still, now that a few days have passed and I can speak from a place of calm reflection, I want to note for the record that there are several individuals Read more…
You know it as the long wispy grass that grabs your club and forces you to thoroughly check for ticks, but fescue grass is much more than agonizing long stuff. Cut at shorter lengths, fine fescue characterizes the rough, fairways and greens of many links courses and helps deliver the bouncy conditions that are deemed Read more…
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