I expect to be at my computer most of the next two weeks working on a book project for Eagles Nest Golf Club, but and I also want to catch up on some course reviews, including reviews of Tobacco Road near Pinehurst, NC; Southern Pines (Elks Course), also near Pinehurst, as well as a review of St. [...]
Someone asked me if I’d traveled much this year and I immediately replied no. Then I thought about it. Yep, a fair bit, actually. Pebble Beach, Los Angeles, Bandon Dunes and England/Wales in the spring, followed by Highlands Links and Kamloops in the summer, and finished by Long Island, NY a couple of weeks back. [...]
Restoration expert and Weir Golf Design partner Ian Andrew played Bethpage Black last fall on a trip to Long Island. As I’ve never played the state park course that will host this week’s U.S. Open, I asked Andrew to sum up his experience and give us a flavor of what to expect.
1) You played Bethpage last year [...]
I was up at Angus Glen Golf Club near Markham yesterday to have lunch with my good friend,director of golf Dennis Firth. I bumped into him talking with the inimitable Kevin Thistle, top dog at all things golf that happened to be owned by Gordon Stollery. The conversation was mainly about the state of the [...]
Course Review: Spyglass Hill (Pebble Beach, Calif.)
Designer: Robert Trent Jones
There is no doubt that Spyglass Hill is one of the more polarizing courses in the World Top 100. When I told my playing partner that it was among the elite on the planet, he scoffed. “No way,” he told me. “I don’t think it is.”
It [...]
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