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 …
The Sandbelt, on the south-east side of Melbourne, is the patch of land on which Australian golf was decided. The patch is about eleven miles across, runs in a …
The thing to know about Pebble Beach Golf Links, before any conversation about the holes or the architects or the championships, is that the course is public. …
There is a sentence the late Doc Giffin, who spent half a century answering Arnold Palmer’s mail, used to put to visiting writers when they asked him …
There is a particular sensation a player gets the first time they walk onto a Riviera fairway, which is the sensation of standing on something that does not …
