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Medinah: The Course That Keeps Reinventing Itself for the Occasion
Medinah Country Club’s Course No. 3 has hosted more major championships than most clubs manage in a century, and yet the version waiting for the …
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Lahinch: The Old Course That Waited a Century for Its Biggest Week
There are golf courses that get discovered by the wider game and golf courses that simply carry on regardless, and for most of its 134 years Lahinch has been …
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Bernardus Golf: The Kyle Phillips Course About to Host Its Biggest Week
There are golf courses that spend decades waiting for the tournament that finally proves what regulars already knew, and there are golf courses built with that …
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Valhalla: The Nicklaus Course Built for a Grand Finish
There are golf courses built to test a player quietly over eighteen holes, and there are golf courses that seem to have a taste for theatre. Valhalla Golf Club, …
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East Lake Golf Club: The Course Bobby Jones Grew Up On and Atlanta Nearly Lost
The Tour Championship gets under way this week at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, and by now the fact barely registers as news. East Lake has been the permanent …
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Bellerive Country Club: The Robert Trent Jones Course That Keeps Getting Recalled
There is a particular kind of golf course that never quite becomes a household name but keeps getting handed the biggest weeks in the sport anyway, and …
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Sedgefield Country Club: The Donald Ross Course the Tour Still Trusts
Michael Brennan closed with a 64 at Sedgefield Country Club last Sunday to win the Wyndham Championship and vault himself into the FedExCup playoffs, and …
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Congressional Country Club: The Blue Course America's Majors Keep Coming Back To
Congressional Country Club was founded in 1924 as a club for Washington’s political and business class first and a golf club second, and for its first …
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Cypress Point: The Course Most Golfers Will Only Ever See in Photographs
Most of the world’s great golf courses eventually get played by enough people that the photographs stop doing the work. Cypress Point never reached that …
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Winged Foot West: The Course Built to Find Out What You Don't Have
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 …