Of Needles and Haystacks
Waiting for the ferry I watch Strangford Lough tighten and boil whitely through a last narrow chute. Somewhere beyond a… Read more »
Courses and Travel
From Course to Course, High Plains Drifting
The first and second at The Sand Hills Club On America’s High Plains, towns announce themselves as clusters of silvery… Read more »
Royal County Down: Irish Golf’s Dark Star
We worked our way up Ireland’s eastern coastline from Dublin toward Belfast with one of the world’s big boys, Royal… Read more »
Surf’s Up, Scores Are Too, at Kiawah’s Ocean Course
How formidable a challenge is the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, South Carolina? Mike Vegis, the resort’s public relations director,… Read more »
Aberdovey and Bernard Darwin
The links at Aberdovey, Wales, as you see, are not a difficult place to get up an afternoon’s worth of… Read more »
Seafront Beauty: Wales’ Royal Porthcawl
The story is told of a prospective guest player appearing at the office door of Royal Porthcawl’s club secretary. A… Read more »
New York Irish
Architect Steven Kay likens a good golf course to a good movie. “I like to design holes that absorb golfers… Read more »
