There is no obvious reason a golf resort should exist on a remote stretch of the southern Oregon coast, four hours from the nearest sizeable airport and closer …
Royal Troon sits on the Ayrshire coast looking out across the Firth of Clyde to the hump of Ailsa Craig, and on a still summer morning it can fool a visitor …
In five weeks the Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale, and the certainty worth holding onto amid all the build-up is this: whoever lifts the Claret Jug …
Watch a US Open at a links-style course and you will see the best players in the world reduced, for a few hours at least, to something close to mortal. The …
There is a reason the players call it Carnasty, and it is not affection. Carnoustie sits on a flat, exposed strip of the Angus coast north of the Tay, and on …
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which is the formal name of the members’ club that has owned the course at Muirfield since the late …
There is a moment that arrives at the first tee of every cold, wet, badly-windy round that begins the same way for everyone who has signed up to play it. The …
The shot the touring professional plays from twenty yards short of the green, on a tight lie, with thirty feet of fairway between the ball and the front edge, …
The course rankings that the magazines publish every other year do not usually settle on a single answer for very long. Augusta moves up and down. Pine Valley …
There is a tendency, when American golfers talk about links courses, to use the word as shorthand for treeless, or windy, or firm. None of those descriptions …
