With golf showing for the holidays (and me tiring of writing about Tiger), I thought I’d take the time to reflect on some of my experiences in 2009.
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I have a passion for golf design and great golf courses. This year was a spectacular one for me in that [...]
While I’m prepping for a trip to LA to visit TaylorMade’s facilities this week and hang out at the Northern Trust Open on Tuesday, I’ve posted some more travel and architecture articles over on our travel site.
Go here to read my take on Florida’s East Coast and Ocean Hammock, and here to read an article [...]
How can you truly review one of the wonders of the golf world? That’s the issue when it comes to North Berwick’s West Links, undoubtedly one of the world’s great golf experiences. Quirky? Yes. Remarkable? Surely.
The first issue is finding the course — it is a hard left off the main road as you enter [...]
Admittedly this is more of a photo essay than a review — after all, how does one review a course like Prestwick, from which so many great golf concepts have been drawn?
The course starts with one of the more daunting shots in golf — gorse left, out of bounds and railway tracks right. Now the [...]
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Review: Carnoustie Golf LinksÂ
Location: Carnoustie, Scotland
Designer: Alan Robertson (later alterations James Braid)
The Scotsman had an interesting story this past week on Carnoustie, site of this year’s British Open.
In Scotland, it is all about Carnoustie this year, specifically whether the course, which hosts the British Open in July, will be set up as difficult [...]
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