As much as any course in the world, Augusta National tailors its architecture to the demands presented one week a year. Virtually every decision the club makes, including each physical alteration, is done in response to how 80-some professional players (and a few amateurs) are playing the holes each April, and patrons are moving about Read more…
The inaugural Golf Digest Open, played last October at Omni PGA Frisco in Texas, came to a dramatic finish in the gross and net divisions. Battling chilly temperatures and a strong breeze, Scottsdale’s Bennett Blakeman and Cody Massa (top left) came to the final hole on the East course—slated to host the 2027 and 2034 Read more…
Pinehurst never stands still for long. The history of the North Carolina resort is one of continual expansion and evolution, and the last 15 years have been especially consequential, culminating with the opening of the newest course, Pinehurst #10, this month. Around 2010, the resort approached Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw about reviving the indigenous Read more…
You would think that living in the middle of Westchester County would make it easy to get to great public golf courses, but, sadly, that’s not the case. While I’m within a 20-minute drive from a few of the most famous private clubs in the country, the number of nearby munis is limited. And the Read more…
Coming off the success of his masterpiece design at National Golf Links of America in 1911, a course he created to broadcast to the world the full potential of golf in the United States, C.B. Macdonald turned his attention to another groundbreaking task, The Lido. Located on the south shore of Long Island on a Read more…
The search for a quality private golf club the entire family will enjoy often leads to a fork in-the-road decision: Find a place with deep, venerable history, or discover something fresh and crisp, a brighter canvas with all the requisite whistles. Along the southern shores of Long Island, in an area immersed in great golf, Read more…
In 2022, the Old Course at St. Andrews hosted the 150th Open Championship, when Cameron Smith stormed past Rory McIlroy to win his first major championship. It was the 30th time that the oldest men’s major championship was played at the Home of Golf. The Old Course would be a must-play for its major championship Read more…
We’ve all participated in some iteration of the cocktail party conversation that starts with “If I had my own golf-themed bar, this is what I’d do.” Greg Bartoli did, too. He just had more firepower to make it a reality. Fifteen years of success on Wall Street had given Bartoli enough cushion to invest in Read more…
American golf travelers don’t need to be convinced to visit Scotland or Ireland. What might not be on your radar is a destination many European travelers frequent—and an international trip that might provide the most bang for your buck. As one European golfer describes it, visiting Portugal from England is the equivalent of a getaway Read more…
You might say it started when W.P. Kinsella wrote a baseball novel in 1982 called “Shoeless Joe” that used the haunting refrain, “If you build it, he will come.” The extraterrestrials of Stonehenge may have had the notion originally, but Kinsella’s mantra expressed perfectly that if you create something worthwhile, people will beat a path Read more…
Lost Rail, a private, stand-alone golf club near Omaha, earned second-place honors in Golf Digest’s 2023 Best New Private Course awards. It’s a remarkable property of uplands and ravines, prairies and clusters of hardwoods. A namesake abandoned railroad line cuts through a deep gully in one corner of the land, forming a dramatic hazard that Read more…
When arriving at Cabot Citrus Farms you’ll understand why Ben Cowan-Dewar sought this property for decades. A prehistoric ridge in Brookville, Fla., created rolling topography on sandy soil—a golf developer’s dream. In the early 1990s, World Woods opened with two acclaimed public courses and what was once the world’s largest driving range that hosted Tiger Read more…
Each year Golf Digest honors the highest scoring new or remodeled courses in four categories: Best New Public Course, Best New Private Course, Best Renovation (courses that undergo conventional improvements like tree removal, new bunkers, altered tees and expanded or relocated greens) and Best Transformation (courses that are fundamentally remodeled with new or rerouted holes). Read more…
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