Courses and Travel

Why I Love Bad Golf Courses, Too.

If you’ve ever taken pleasure in slamming a really bad movie with your friends over a post-cinema cocktail, you’ll understand... Read more »

The Greens of Santa Fe

Jason Kerkmans

For all of Santa Fe’s popularity—and all you have to do is sit in the downtown plaza on a sunny... Read more »

The City Game: Great Golf in Brooklyn. Yes, Brooklyn!

Dyker Beach Golf Course, Brooklyn, New York, with the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in the background

James A. Frank

Mayor Bloomberg was mad. Well, not real mad, more pretend mad. He was welcoming about 100 of us to the... Read more »

Belleview Biltmore, er, Pelican Golf Club

Derek Duncan

We’ll never know how good this course originally was (for many years an amenity for the historic Belleview Biltmore... Read more »

Druid Hills Golf Club, Pulled into the Present

Derek Duncan

Druid Hills is one of Atlanta’s original surviving clubs along with Capital City Club–Brookhaven (also an H. H. Barker... Read more »

A Stone’s Throw From Pebble

James A. Frank

While I was out at Pebble Beach for U.S. Open media day (see my earlier report here), I had the... Read more »

More Northern Ireland Golf – Portstewart

Fans think the opener at Portstewart is the world's best first hole. It certainly is a great one.

Larry Olmsted

I think almost every golf travel pundit would agree that Portstewart is the third best course in Northern Ireland, after... Read more »

The Ultimate Dream 18

David Barrett

How about a round of golf that starts on the Scottish coast, finishes on the California coast, and visits Australia... Read more »

Cordial CordeValle

Jeff Wallach

Just minutes from the high-tech circuitry California’s Silicon Valley, CordeValle Resort and Golf Club presents an island of tranquility isolated... Read more »

Wild Horse Golf Club-Doing Design the Right Way

Derek Duncan

This is the story of how a few people in a very small town in the middle of Nebraska, who... Read more »

Winging it at Louisiana’s Oak Wing

The par 4 11th, with its bulkheaded green across a pond, is but one of the many faces of Oak Wing.

Derek Duncan

I can imagine Jim Lipe, who occasionally steps away from the Nicklaus studio to take on solo projects, taking... Read more »

Dugmar: The curious story of a golf course submerged

Hal Phillips

[This piece is from May 26, 2010. See more of Hal’s writing at his website, Small-Batch Journalism & Comment] The Swift River... Read more »

Forrest Richardson Redesigns Phoenician Resort

Scott Kauffman

As part of a major redesign in conjunction with its new Camelback Ballroom, Starwood’s flagship Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz.,... Read more »