Course Review: Creek Club
Designer: CB Macdonald
I recognize that somehow I’ve managed to make it to Long Island two years in a row without actually writing about significantly about the experience. Which is hard to imagine, really, considering there’s a good argument to be made that the best golf in the world is located in this [...]
Course Review: Monterey Peninsula (Shore Course)
Architect: Mike Strantz
The story of Monterey Peninsula’s Shore Course is likely only known to those that are interested in golf design, and the even smaller group that were intrigued by the unfortunately short career of maverick golf designer Mike Strantz. After all, it was the Shore Course which would be [...]
Course Review: Riviera Country Club
Designer: George Thomas
Jim Furyk once told me that he hated everything about Los Angeles. He disliked the city and wasn’t fond of the traffic. But he came to play the Northern Trust Open (formerly the Nissan…) because of the golf course. “And I don’t even play that well there,” he said. [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by golf course developers who know exactly what they want. Far too often those that build golf courses haven’t a clue beyond the concept that a course will help sell real estate. That’s often been the case in Canada — and led directly to the failure of several high-profile projects where the [...]
It is always a real pleasure to get a chance to meet and speak with the best in the business — regardless of whether we’re talking high-finance, technology, entrepreneurism or, in this case, golf. With that in mind, I was very pleased to meet Bill Coore, half of the Coore/Ben Crenshaw design team, while on [...]
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