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 …
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 …
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 …
There is a reason the players call it Carnasty, and it is not affection. Carnoustie sits on a flat, exposed strip of the Angus coast north of the Tay, and on …
Most great golf courses were laid out by men who wanted to find the best holes hiding in a piece of ground. Pete Dye’s Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass was …
