Pebble Beach is a bucket list course for most (all?) golfers for a reason: it has a great out and back routing, plenty of iconic holes along the ocean, and a lot of histo...
I played Sheep Ranch the 2nd day it was open, so this review is delayed by a little over a year. The grass on the course was still settling a bit, but the course still p...
Between talking with my friends who I travelled to Bandon with and reading a few reviews, I sense that Old Mac can range in terms of feedback and where the course ranks o...
For some, Tobacco Road is a polarizing course design, especially when juxtaposed to its neighbors in the Carolina sandhills that offer a more minimalist display. While I...
The West Course opens with a short, strategic par 4 over a rolling fairway that entices you to go for it but can punish a wayward drive. I love an opener that actually m...
Hidden Creek, at times, feels like courses you would see down in the Pinehurst area as well as heathland courses you might see in Surrey. Perhaps this is not surprising,...
Some really cool history at Walton Heath and the club’s architect (Herbert Fowler) and James Braid (first head professional). The member I played with told me that Braid...
Have you ever played a Macdonald/Raynor course that you didn't love? Neither have I. Part of the reason is it's fun to play template holes, and there is a reason those...
Swinley Forest is a ~6400 par 69, and what makes the course a world beater is the fact that it is not trying to be anything it isn’t. The course has a special aura and f...
You start to feel the history of the place when you pull up, and while the first few holes feel a bit normal in terms of quality of design, I think the course from the 5t...
Montauk Downs is a solid golf course to play if you are in the area, though you have some similar bureaucratic hoops to jump through as with Bethpage in terms of getting...
Not shocking to realize that playing a Willie Park design, which was touched up by Coore & Crenshaw, in the dunes of the Hamptons is an incredible experience. The course...
I am a current member at Essex County Country Club, but the below is my honest opinion after recently looking at a myriad of clubs to join not far from NYC where I live.T...
Worth a trip to play here if invited. A bit of a "Jekyll and Hyde" course in terms of the inland first 5 holes versus the rest of the course.The first 5 holes are just f...
Stanwich is an interesting course to play in the sense that it is hard to really categorize it within an architecture sense... The course is relatively young, by Tri-Stat...
A short Walter Travis course where green complexes need to defend par in the modern game, which they sometimes (but not always) do. A leisurely walk on a nice parkland c...
Take the trip if you get the invite. When you look at before and after pictures of the course prior to the fine work of Gil Hanse and George Bahto, you realize how smart...
Quite frankly, the best value for golf in the United States (unless someone knows of another top 100 course in the country that you can play any time of day during peak s...
Cosistent with other Raynor courses, Blue Mound is both a fair test and also just flat out enjoyable to play. The Punchbowl, Biarritz, and Redan, in particular, are all...
Royal Cinque Ports is tucked into a special corner of pure links land in the UK and right on the English Channel. Perfect place (with RSG and Princes next door and Rye n...