Let’s dispel with the obvious right away: no course built in Florida, on any kind of bermuda, zoysia or paspalum… Read more »
Grand Cypress New Course — An Auld Spirit
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King & Bear: Smash-Up of the Titans
I lived about an hour away from the King & Bear when it was being finished in 2000. At the time, the co-design… Read more »
Breaking Mold: The Breakers Rees Jones Course
Outside of his courses in New York, maybe, Rees Jones is probably better known for his work renovating and prepping courses for… Read more »
The Raven at Sandestin — Nevermore, Though Never Less
When The Raven course at this mega-resort opened in the late 1990’s it was meant to signal that northwest Florida finally… Read more »
Irrepressable Lawsonia Links
Suddenly, Wisconsin has become a powerhouse golf destination, at least as unlikely a place for extraordinary public play as Nebraska has… Read more »
Red Hawk Ridge–Early Engh
Going around Red Hawk Ridge you can see the ideas and embryonic elements of the shapes and playability motifs that Jim Engh would further… Read more »
Silky Smooth Raptor Bay
Raptor Bay near Naples begins with an interesting idea: there will be no bunkers. That’s the most notable thing about the… Read more »
Jumping to Play The Frog
You can drive all over the greater metro Atlanta area–25 miles* in any direction from the state capital–and not find… Read more »
Swimming in Circles with Tiburon
Sod-wall bunkers with crisp upper lips. Wall to wall fairways. Waste areas bleeding into the underbrush. Greens that bubble like… Read more »
The Shape of Things at Shingle Creek
Shingle Creek in south-central Orlando sits at the north end of the same basin of wetlands as Greg Norman’s Grande Lakes less than… Read more »
