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Brooklawn Course Still Worth Celebrating

Brooklawn Course Still Worth Celebrating

This year's 125th anniversary celebration at Brooklawn Country Club in Connecticut will not include the U.S. Senior Women's Open as planned. But any disappointment there is...

Embracing Its Legacy

Embracing Its Legacy

Dumbarnie Links Fits Comfortably In Scotland

Many golfers travel to the Fife region in eastern Scotland to play some of the world’s oldest courses. Soon, Dumbarnie Links will be the new kid...

Palmetto Golf Club Keeps Augusta Area Top Of Mind

Palmetto Golf Club Keeps Augusta Area Top Of Mind

Located 20 miles northeast of Augusta National, just across the South Carolina border in the historic town of Aiken, Palmetto Golf Club is one of the...

Museum Exhibition Showcases Golf Course As Art Form 

Museum Exhibition Showcases Golf Course As Art Form 

One of the best parts of the USGA Museum is its fine art collection, and it was from that trove that the museum put together an...

Five Norman Courses That Matter

Five Norman Courses That Matter

With 106 tracks to his credit, Greg Norman has assembled an impressive body of work as a golf course architect. Determining which are the best of...

Moving Dirt With Greg Norman

Moving Dirt With Greg Norman

How The Great White Shark Has Carved A Course Design Niche

It cannot be easy for a golfer who was so good for so long to find happiness in another profession once his playing days are done....

MOUNTAIN LAKE OVERHEAD

Seth Raynor’s Mountain Lake Has Stood Test Of Time

Golfers tend to use the words “hidden gem” recklessly when talking about course design. A recent trip to central Florida, however, reminded our...

Riviera Country Club No. 6, 1934

Timeless Riviera Still Holds Up

Riviera Country Club opened for play in 1927 and nearly a century later, it remains unconquered by the modern technology that has rendered...

Short-Course Crusader 

Larry Gilhuly Is On A Mission To Move Tees Forward 

Former USGA official Larry Gilhuly has emerged as one of golf’s leading evangelists for shorter courses. He says golfers who don’t hit 7-irons...

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Remembering Alice Dye, A Singular Figure In Architecture

John Steinbreder remembers golf course architect Alice Dye, Pete Dye's partner in life and design. This story, published on Feb. 3, 2019, is...

Dominican Dye

In 2019, the Latin America Amateur Championship was staged for the second time in its five-year history on the Teeth of the Dog...

Bandon Dunes No. 16

In Praise Of The Short Par-4

Short par-4s are a frequent topic of conversation among architecture aficionados. And while the overall merits of this design concept are largely recognized,...

Read Global Golf Post, Nov. 11

The U.S. edition is available here.   |   The European edition is available here.

WYNN GOLF CLUB NO. 18

A New Course On An Old Site In Ever-Changing Las Vegas

The newly reopened Wynn Golf Club is the reincarnation of the course of the same name that closed down a few years ago,...

Corica Park Takes Flight

California Muni’s Rebirth Provides Successful Model

The revitalization of Corica Park Golf Course on the San Francisco Bay provides a model for other municipalities to follow. Our Sean Fairholm...

Journeyman Pro Now The New Face Of Old-School Design 

Bill Bergin, a former journeyman pro and teacher, is a course designer who learned his craft from the subsoil up and whose work...

Old-School Golf In New-World Shanghai

Yangtze Dunes, a Shanghai course recently revamped by an architecture firm that includes 2006 U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy, is generally regarded as...

Loop Golf At Forest Dunes A Reversible Treat

Tom Doak has designed a beautiful – and reversible – golf course in Roscommon, Mich. Our John Steinbreder writes the story and tells...

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