At Royal Birkdale this week we are seeing a firm, fast and baked out Open Championship for the first time since Carnoustie in 2018. While the brown-tinged links of Europe dominate our World’s 100 Greatest list, many American golfers likely believe that green is healthy and brown is dead. RELATED: This common golf-cart mistake is a Read more…
Royal Birkdale is unrecognisable in parts ahead of this year’s Open Championship. Architect Tom Mackenzie has reworked almost every hole on the Southport links including a new driveable fifth a retired par-3 14th and a brand new long par 3 to replace it. Here’s a look at the biggest changes since Jordan Spieth’s win in 2017.
Mid Ocean Club is the only C.B. Macdonald design outside the United States, regarded since its opening as one of the world’s best, ranked 44th on our most recent list of the World’s 100 Greatest Courses. So when the club contacted Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, who have tackled some of the world’s headiest restoration Read more…
With its tall dunes, flat lies and lack of blind shots, Royal Birkdale is often described as the fairest course on the Open rota. Here’s a hole-by-hole breakdown of what to expect at this year’s championship.
Less than an hour’s drive north of Milan, golf becomes far more than a game. Here, amid rolling fairways and sweeping views over Lake Varese and Monte Rosa, the experience is steeped in a sense of place that feels almost timeless. Golf Club Varese is not simply a club; it is a story nearly nine Read more…
Golf’s most valuable piece of land is unintentionally unknown to most golfers. Turn onto 91st Street in Surfside, Fla., north of Miami Beach, and you’ll encounter a highly ornamented, police-gated bridge that looks like an entrance into a country club. In a way, it is. Indian Creek Village has become an enclave for society’s richest Read more…
Initial reports stated courses like Pine Valley and Cypress Point as possibilities, which might be a little far-fetched. We decided we’d apply a little realism to the exercise and help identify some courses we’d love to see the tour consider for the new matchplay edition of the Tour Championship.
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…
Aronimink’s history poses a philosophical question for architects and old clubs: should designers honour and resurrect the course that the original architects drew, or are they better off restoring the features that were actually built?
Poke your nose into enough golf architecture discussions, and you’re bound to hear someone mention “the Philadelphia School of Design.” It’s particularly relevant this week when Aronimink Golf Club, in the west Philadelphia enclave of Newtown Square, hosts the PGA Championship, its first since 1962. What exactly is the Philadelphia School of Design? In the Read more…
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