There is a golf course a few hundred yards from the Playboy Mansion and across the road from the Beverly Hilton that spent most of its existence refusing to let …
Jack Nicklaus had already won most of what there was to win by the time he bought farmland outside his hometown of Columbus in 1966. What he had not done yet …
Most nicknames attached to famous golf courses arrive as compliments or insults, some verdict on how the course plays. Wentworth’s West Course got its …
For most of the twentieth century, the land in the middle of Florida between Tampa and Orlando was worth something entirely unrelated to golf. Mining companies …
There is a stretch of road on the way into South Pittsburg, Tennessee, that gives no hint of what is waiting at the end of it. The town sits in the Sequatchie …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
