Like an abstract painting splattered on a canvas, the skill of golf course design is easy to dismiss. A tee box, a green, a fairway and some bunkers in between. The whole time you think, Hell, I could ...

Shinnecock Hills is regarded as a world-class design and one of the game's finest championship tests. But why? The post What makes U.S. Open host Shinnecock Hills so special? An expert explains ...

Bill Coore is a big name in golf-course architecture. But he wasn’t always destined for a life in design. In college at Wake Forest, he studied the classics. Not Golden Age layouts. Actual classics.

The only Rees Jones course in Hawaii offers members an unmatched blend of oceanfront holes, playable challenge and island hospitality There’s a moment that happens to every golfer who steps onto ...

When TPC Sawgrass opened in the fall of 1980, it represented something entirely new in professional golf. Built on 415 acres of northeastern Florida swampland about a mile west of the Atlantic Ocean, ...