https://pinhighpress.com/tags/william-flynn/ Recent content in William Flynn on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/shinnecock-hills-course-profile/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/shinnecock-hills-course-profile/ <p>There is a tendency, when American golfers talk about links courses, to use the word as shorthand for treeless, or windy, or firm. None of those descriptions quite captures what is unusual about Shinnecock Hills. The course occupies a stretch of glacial moraine on the eastern end of Long Island, four miles from the Atlantic on one side and Peconic Bay on the other, and the soil beneath it behaves the way links soil is supposed to behave: it drains quickly, it firms up under sun and wind, and it produces a turf that asks the ball to bounce and roll in ways that an inland parkland course can only imitate. The 2026 U.S. Open returns to the property in June, the sixth time the championship has been contested on William Flynn&rsquo;s 1931 layout, and the visit will once again raise the question that Shinnecock has always raised: how much modern golf can a course of this character absorb before it starts to lose what makes it different.</p>