Though Coore & Crenshaw created the course, players at “The Chain” will have a uniquely strong say in how the holes will play depending on where they choose to tee off.
Weather is more than likely to play a role in the type of golf asked for this week. In particular, the wind can gust erratically due to course’s proximity to the Mediterranean Sea and the nearby Gibraltar Strait.
For T.S. Eliot—and many Masters green jacket aspirants—April can be the cruelest of months. September, on the other hand, is the most opportunistic, at least for the rest of us. Bidding for items in the sixth annual Take a Swing ForeBatten silent charity auction, one of the game’s largest and most anticipated golf and travel Read more…
Start a new tradition unlike any other and plan your next golf outing at Omni PGA Frisco Resort, not only the home of modern golf, but also host to 26 future PGA Championship tournaments. With two 18-hole courses, Fields Ranch East and Fields Ranch West, Omni PGA Frisco Resort is a golfer’s paradise when deciding Read more…
Ken Bakst, the founder and developer of Friar’s Head on Long Island, crouches into the driver’s seat of a two-man Gator utility vehicle and cranks the engine. We’re off to explore what will become The Ranch, his soon-to-be 36-hole golf club in Martin County, Florida. We drive for half a mile across barren pastureland and Read more…
It’s been a little over a year since World Golf Hall of Fame player Tom Weiskopf passed away at age 79 (he’ll be inducted in 2024). If there was a golf design hall of fame, he’d be in that one too. The last course Weiskopf was actively involved in building is Black Desert Resort in Read more…
Golfers are feeling the rising costs of green fees—from local public tracks to the highest-end resort courses. It turns out, not even the most expensive tee time in the world is immune from upping its fees.
Whatever growing pains the new Tiger Woods/Rory McIlroy conceived TGL indoor golf league has during its startup phase, they won’t come from lack of resources. New York Mets owner Steve Cohen has made a deal to buy the New York franchise, joining Serena Williams and Alex Ohanian (Los Angeles), Fenway Sports Group (Boston) and Atlanta Read more…
Each spring the Alister MacKenzie Society sponsors the Ray Haddock Lido Prize, a competition for amateur architects to submit drawings of a theoretical golf hole that embodies the design principles of Alister MacKenzie.
Links Golf Club, an online-based golf collective of over 5,400 members, has entered into an exclusivity agreement to purchase Spey Bay Golf Club on the Moray coast of northern Scotland.
To get more for your money, you need to go where land is reasonable, golf is plentiful and the experience is memorable. With these best bang-for-your-buck options, you’ll never have to leave Australia.
Avid golfers are often avid collectors. Of experiences, yes, but also things. Scorecards, logoed golf shirts, selfies in front of iconic golf holes – there are plenty of ways one might commemorate a visit to hallowed golf turf.
An unexpected recent architectural trend is the popularity of short courses: entertaining, quick-play accessory designs stuffed with ambitious architecture.
Australian Golf Digest
