Bill Bergin, a former journeyman pro and teacher, is a course designer who learned his craft from the subsoil up and whose work pays heed to...
Yangtze Dunes, a Shanghai course recently revamped by an architecture firm that includes 2006 U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy, is generally regarded as the only traditional...
Tom Doak has designed a beautiful – and reversible – golf course in Roscommon, Mich. Our John Steinbreder writes the story and tells the somewhat colorful...
The Old Course gets most of the attention in St. Andrews, but the less-celebrated New and Jubilee courses also rank among the very best tracks in...
The Old Course at St. Andrews is almost certainly the most famous course on the planet, but what is not acknowledged as often is that it...
Mike Keiser, the man who revolutionized golf course development over the past two decades, is preparing to open a fifth course at Bandon Dunes and beginning...
The most-anticipated new course in the U.S. is the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch, better known simply as the Sheep Ranch located just north...
Rare is the retreat where the artistry of architects from both a century ago and from the modern day are evident. But, after...
A renovation of Royal Dar Es Salam Golf Club in Rabat, Morocco, has left the Robert Trent Jones Sr. design more breathtaking than...
Historic Garden City Golf Club in Garden City, N.Y., has stayed true to its origins despite renovations. Most recently, the stewardship has come...
Ron Whitten and Phil Young are golf course architecture critics. Whitten believes Bethpage State Park golf course superintendent Joseph Burbeck designed Bethpage Black,...
Players competing in the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf beginning next week will be treated to something old and something new when...
GGP+ Contributor Jim Achenbach writes that the renovation of the fifth hole at Augusta National is about far more than just length.
He wouldn’t recognize the place. If Dr. Alister MacKenzie were alive today and you dropped him onto the grounds of Augusta National –...
Where to tee off on the subject of Steel? We should start, perhaps, with his book and the USGA award, a hefty accolade...
When I told a few of my golf buddies last summer that I was going to tour Belgium and the Netherlands with my...
In the days of 7,000-plus yard layouts, another trend is taking shape in the golf course architecture business: short tees. GGP+ Correspondent John...
he first few decades of the 20th century are much celebrated for their artistic and cultural awakenings. Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington. Scribner’s published...
