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Charl Schwartzel won the first Alfred Dunhill Championship staged at the Gary Player-designed Leopard Creek in 2005 and he went on to win the event three more times in 2013, 2014 and 2016.
Schwartzel – the tournament’s only four-time winner – is not in the starting line up this week, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if a South African once again hoisted the iconic leopard trophy aloft on Sunday.
Four months after starting our state revisions at the Pacific, we’ve now reached the Atlantic. In this release we’re reviewing the eight states of Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
Gil Hanse wasn’t competing with his Olympic Games creation in Rio when designing his first Asian course, however the concept was bound to make headlines: A recreation of the lost, legendary Lido.
Due to Canyata’s intense privacy there’s very little information on the Internet about it. So how do you properly evaluate this course? I’m not sure, because there’s certainly nowhere else I’ve played to which it compares.
In this Best in State refresh, we take a closer look at the golf-rich states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, where we’ve increased our coverage by more than 25% to a total of 295 golf courses.
Last month, we updated the rankings for the East South Central states of the USA. We now move to the northwest to shine the spotlight on courses in the farm belt states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Lost Farm is a tour de force. When you make the pilgrimage, play it early and often. It will slowly release its secrets and in uncovering them you will start to see golf as it was, is and can be.
