Cameron Smith defends the Sony Open in Hawaii this week after defeating Brendan Steele in a playoff last year. The first full-field event of the calendar year is again being staged on the Seth Raynor and Charles Banks-designed layout at Waialae Country Club, which was also the venue for the inaugural Hawaiian Open in 1928.
Bulls Bay is one of golf’s best-kept secrets. Though its renown has grown in recent years, the vision of founder Joe Rice and the late Mike Strantz, has been given a much-deserved facelift by Alan Black and his grounds crew, and the result is truly something to behold.
A golfing journey that started at the Pacific in July ends at the opposite side of the USA in New England. This final update focuses on the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
We're approaching the end of our biennial US Best in State re- ranking process with this penultimate revision for the Mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
I had the great pleasure of playing Ardfin in the COVID summer of 2020. It was a major investment but justified by being both my anniversary and the penultimate round of my own Top 100 challenge.
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.
