Most championship courses earn their reputation through one defining trait, a set of greens, a run of holes, a finishing stretch that decides everything. Winged …
Ask most golfers to name the best course in the world and a surprising number will land on one they have never seen played and have almost no chance of ever …
For sixty-eight years, Royal Portrush was the Open Championship venue that existed mostly in the imagination of people who had read about it. It hosted the …
Ask a room full of golf fans to name the most beautiful stretch of holes in the sport and Turnberry’s Ailsa Course will come up before most people have …
Most golf courses that host a U.S. Open get bigger afterwards. Land is bought, tees are pushed back, a corporate village materialises somewhere that used to be …
There is no obvious reason a golf resort should exist on a remote stretch of the southern Oregon coast, four hours from the nearest sizeable airport and closer …
There are courses that defend themselves with length, courses that rely on rough, and courses that lean on water and bunkering to make a player think twice. The …
Royal Troon sits on the Ayrshire coast looking out across the Firth of Clyde to the hump of Ailsa Craig, and on a still summer morning it can fool a visitor …
Most of the great championship courses in the world are private, gated affairs where the closest an ordinary golfer gets is a television screen. Bethpage Black …
In five weeks the Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale, and the certainty worth holding onto amid all the build-up is this: whoever lifts the Claret Jug …
