It’s a major week, which means it’s time for our latest Q&A deep dive into the weirdest corner we can find within range of the host venue. A few examples from the recent past: • The Oakmont Turnpike• The controversial political parade at Portrush• Tree Island at TPC Sawgrass• The odd history of Masters pairings• Read more…
The revered New York club has never found a reason to make major alterations to the design, or even very minor ones, and therefore had no reason to later restore or correct it for past mistakes.
Alister MacKenzie was a prolific writer and essayist in addition to being a golf course architect, and he left behind something of a hack for contestants who enter drawings in the annual Ray Haddock Lido Prize contest, sponsored by the Alister MacKenzie Society. It’s actually not so much of a hack as much as a Read more…
It’s no secret that it gets hot in South Carolina. But in terms of golf, the state has never been hotter than it is now. When it comes to the quality and relevance of new course construction, South Carolina is burning. In the last four years the state has become the epicenter of creative new Read more…
In this video we’re going to explore what makes Shinnecock’s 11th one of the most elusive and infuriating par 3s in golf. But to understand why it’s so challenging to even the world’s greatest players, we need to dig into its architecture and trace how the hole came into being.
I chuckled each morning as my golf shoes and sticks sat next to my cowboy boots near the door of my rustic, TV-less cabin. The experience at Mountain Sky Guest Ranch is unlike any other for golfers. Less than an hour from Yellowstone (the park) and a little more than an hour from Bozeman, Rising Read more…
Kenmore is a postcard town in the Scottish Highlands. Surrounded by hills, the picturesque town sits in a valley on the edge of Loch Tay. Everywhere you look is beautiful. And like so many Scottish towns, there’s a castle. Built along the banks of the water, Taymouth Castle has been restored and redesigned since the Read more…
When golfers travel, they tend to seek out target-rich environments, the dense clusters of places like the London Heathlands, the Melbourne Sandbelt or the Hamptons on Long Island where they can play as many great courses as possible in the shortest amount of time. Golfers visiting Scotland, for instance, typically attempt to gobble up chunks Read more…
Last fall, Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island reopened after a renovation by Love Golf Design, the firm of Mark and Davis Love III and lead architect Scot Sherman. The work, which was on display during the recent RBC Heritage, involved new drainage and irrigation, expanding lost green space, rebuilding bunkers—normal things that Read more…
If you scripted a movie centered around the quintessential Los Angeles golf club, that lead would look a lot like Bel-Air. Winding through the mansion-dotted canyons of the Hollywood Hills, Bel-Air Country Club is a Tinseltown vision of Southern California golf with topography so steep it seems fictitious as golfers are guided hole to hole Read more…
Golf Digest is talking to the next generation of course architects whose names might be new to you, but are popping up more and more with great projects. This interview has been edited for concision. The full Q&A is available on the “Feed the Ball” podcast with architecture editor Derek Duncan. What shaping or design Read more…
As a 1-handicapper capable of breaking par but also shooting in the 80s, I didn’t feel like I played perfectly, but I also didn’t feel overwhelmed. In fact, I played about as well as I could have hoped. Here’s what went right.
Baker Thompson has known Michael Keiser Jr. since he was 10 years old. They’d spend summers together as neighbors near The Dunes Club in New Buffalo, Mich., the first golf development of Keiser’s father, Mike, which launched his career that would redefine destination golf with public access. Now Thompson and Keiser Jr. are themselves redefining Read more…
Golf Digest is talking to the next generation of course architects whose names might be new to you, but are popping up more and more with great projects. This interview has been edited for concision. The full Q&A is available on the “Feed the Ball” podcast with architecture editor Derek Duncan. What work are you Read more…
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