Next week when the Presidents Cup returns to Canada for just the second time, the International team will be looking to put up a better fight than the 19½-14½ loss to the United States the last time the event was played at The Royal Montreal Golf Club’s Blue Course, in 2007. The Blue won’t offer Read more…
When Xander Schauffele landed his second major championship in three months, capturing the Open Championship at Royal Troon this summer, he faced weighty decisions: What libation would he consume first from golf’s most historic jug? Also, where could Schauffele and his wife dial it back and recharge during an off week between Scotland and the Read more…
Oklahoma-based architect Tripp Davis, whose background competing at the highest levels of amateur golf has influenced his outlook on constructing courses, tackles a question about the impact of premium conditioning on golf design. His original designs include The Tribute and Old American in Dallas along with prominent renovations of Preston Trail in Dallas, Oak Tree Read more…
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.
These days, new golf courses—especially those that might chart high on national rankings—tend to burst onto the scene with great fanfare. There’s usually a press release announcing the plan to build the next sensational Gil Hanse, Tom Doak, Tom Fazio or Jack Nicklaus design, followed by updates of the construction progress all the way up Read more…
Golf is a sport of ingenuity. It’s a game of doggedness, passion and creativity centered around a desire to consistently improve and grow the game. In the never-ending arc of time, the greats always figure out what to do whether they’re A. W. Tillinghast, Pete Dye, Tom Fazio or … Ed from South Carolina? This Read more…
Architect David McLay Kidd is well-suited to take on our latest “Ask An Architect” question. The Scotsman burst into the profession when he built the first course at Bandon Dunes for developer Mike Keiser in the late 1990s. Over the course of his career he’s had his share of other great sites like Gamble Sands 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…
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