Courses and Travel

China and Golf – The Sport’s Next Gold Rush

Larry Olmsted

When it comes to the world’s biggest country, the PGA, USGA, R&A, Tiger Woods and company have awakened a sleeping... Read more »

Aberdovey and Bernard Darwin

Timothy Nolan

The links at Aberdovey, Wales, as you see, are not a difficult place to get up an afternoon’s worth of... Read more »

Special Chance to Play the 65th Best Course on Earth – For a Good Cause!

Larry Olmsted

  At least according to Golf Magazine, which ranks The Maidstone Club the sixty fifth best public or private in... Read more »

Seafront Beauty: Wales’ Royal Porthcawl

Timothy Nolan

The story is told of a prospective guest player appearing at the office door of Royal Porthcawl’s club secretary.  A... Read more »

Amelia River Golf Club–Closed Quarters

Derek Duncan

  You know how birds sometimes nest in odd places, taking eminent domain in an overlooked eave or post column you wouldn’t... Read more »

Holding on to Holston Hills

Derek Duncan

Holston Hills has the reputation of being a Donald Ross course that time forgot because so little has supposedly changed over... Read more »

Levels on the Lake: Cobblestone

Derek Duncan

If I only had one round to play and it had to be in the greater Atlanta area, with no... Read more »

A Distant Whiff of Ross – Wilmington Island Club

Derek Duncan

For years this club was an amenity to members and guests of the General Oglethorpe Hotel, one of the grand... Read more »

ChampionsGate-International–Stranger in a Strange Land

Derek Duncan

The International Course at this 36-hole complex a few miles southwest of Disney World was conceived to emulate the look... Read more »

Riviera Maya Golf: Mayakoba & El Cameleon

Larry Olmsted

Today I am wrapping up my recent return visit to the Rivera Maya where it started, at the Mayakoba Resort. I... Read more »

Spring Island Completes New Sports Complex

Scott Kauffman

   Spring Island, S.C. – Spring Island, a 3,000 acre private community in the South Carolina Lowcountry, is investing in... Read more »

Riviera Maya Golf: Riviera Cancun GC

Larry Olmsted

I love the Rivera Maya as a travel destination, and explained why the region is so charming in my first... Read more »

A Gathering for All Who Love St. Andrews

James A. Frank

Still flying well under the golf world’s radar are the unfortunate plans of Herb Kohler to make the game’s ancestral... Read more »

New York Irish

Timothy Nolan

Architect Steven Kay likens a good golf course to a good movie.  “I like to design holes that absorb golfers... Read more »

Bandon’s Second Decade

Jason Kerkmans

Even after reading about the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort for the past 10 years, the first thing you’re likely to... Read more »