The story goes, a man brought his daughter to play in a golf tournament in Ireland. She was new to the game, and after a brief session at the driving range, flanked by the water and the lush countryside, past statues of legends like Payne Stewart, they made their way to the first tee. Their Read more…
You likely know that TPC Sawgrass started the Tournament Players Club movement in the 1980s as the first PGA Tour-owned and operated club. But do you know the origin of the concept of stadium golf, and how the TPC golf courses network grew since Sawgrass’ debut 42 years ago? Much credit is due to Deane Read more…
In most of the country, golf courses fight an unrelenting battle against weather and daylight. How do you get enough rounds in to generate the revenue required to keep the doors open? One Phoenix-area operation is trying to change those terms of engagement with a modern marketing plan, banks of stadium lights and a whole Read more…
Ohoopee Match Club is in rare air among modern courses. Only five new designs have debuted higher on our America’s 100 Greatest Courses ranking over the past 30 years, putting the Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner design in the same conversation as some of the highest-ranking courses of the modern era, such as Sand Hills Read more…
Augusta National’s 18th hole rises about 70 feet from the base of the fairway to the green. The elevation is one of the hole’s defenses as drives don’t roll much and uphill second shots are blind and must cover the front bunker. Uphill shots don’t bother professionals, but they can cause imprecision, and slight imprecisions Read more…
The par-4 11th was named “Dogwood” for the 155 white dogwood trees that lined the fairway when the course opened in 1933. Along with holes 10 and 12, the 11th was cut through the pines on the lowest, most forested section of the property to the south. Augusta National’s seventh and 11th are the most Read more…
The seventh hole is called “Pampas” after a grassy bush indigenous to South America, setting it apart from the course’s hole names that are generally tree and shrub-oriented and more associated with Georgia. It’s an apt departure—the seventh has always been the black sheep of Augusta National, a hole that never quite fit in with 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…
When the latest installment of golf’s newest and most popular head-to-head match-play event, Capital One’s The Match, tees off on Monday, it won’t be the first time the game is played on a public-access golf course. It will be the first time it’s held on a course that most viewers might reasonably be able to Read more…
The Masters tee at the par-5 second hole has been moved back and to the left by about 10 yards, seemingly in an effort to bring the right fairway bunker more into play.
Australian Golf Digest
