January 18, 2021 By: Jason Lusk — There’s a segment of art fans who regularly demand the Mona Lisa be cleaned and restored. It’s a touchy debate. If the painting were to be restored, it might better represent what Leonardo da […]
Showstoppers: 14 new (or renovated) layouts we can’t wait to check out in 2021
December 28, 2020 By: Josh Sens — Another calendar year is coming to an end. Out with the old, in with the new. As in, new (and newly renovated) courses. Here are 14 layouts we can’t wait to check out in […]
First Gil Hanse design in continental Europe set to open in 2021
December 4, 2020 By: Golf Course Industry staff — The New Course at Les Bordes, a Gil Hanse design in the heart of France’s Loire Valley, is set to open in May 2021. The par-72 course is situated south of Paris […]
The Lido of Thailand
November 24, 2020 By: Golf Course Industry Staff — The Lido Club has been gone some 80 years now, but never was it forgotten. This mythic 18 from the hand of American design pioneers Charles Blair MacDonald and Seth Raynor opened […]
Construction nears completion on both courses at PGA Frisco
November 19, 2020 By: Richard Humphreys — Work is almost complete on the Gil Hanse-designed East course and Beau Welling’s West course at PGA Frisco in Texas. Sixteen holes on the East course have been grassed and contractor Heritage Links is […]
College golf gets on ‘Road to La Costa’ with much bigger dreams in mind
November 17, 2020 By: Tod Leonard — In his mind’s eye, University of Texas men’s golf coach John Fields can see it all so clearly. Just as college baseball looks to Omaha, Neb., each year for the College World Series, and women’s […]
It’s here! GOLF’s 2020-21 ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the U.S.
November 2, 2020 By: GOLF’S COURSE RATINGS PANEL & RAN MORRISSETT, ARCHITECTURE EDITOR — When it comes to course design, it’s the ultimate badge of honor: a spot on GOLF’s biennial rank of the best courses in America. This year, we welcome […]
Hanse’s Aronimink restoration returns KPMG Women’s PGA host site to architecture’s Golden Age
October 5, 2020 By: Jeff Babineau — Aronimink Golf Club, host of this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Newtown Square, Penn., west of Philadelphia, is rich with tradition, and no stranger to big events. The Donald Ross original underwent a […]
No Laying Up Podcast, Episode 358: Gil Hanse Recaps the U.S. Open
September 21, 2020 — Gil Hanse joins us to discuss how the 2020 U.S. Open played out at Winged Foot, his reaction to what Bryson was able to do, how he restored Winged Foot, green firmness, how to test the best […]
The New Gil Hanse-designed course at Les Bordes
September 17, 2020 — We’re big fans of Robert von Hagge’s mid-1980s course at Les Bordes, so we were really intrigued to hear last year that the club was constructing another 18-hole layout to complement the original course. When we then […]
The 5 most crucial shots at Winged Foot, according to Gil Hanse
September 17, 2020 By: Gil Hanse — What shots at Winged Foot have the ability to make or break a U.S. Open contender’s championship (and maybe his heart in the process)? We asked Gil Hanse to choose his top five. 1. THE THIRD PUTT ON THE 1ST […]
Approaching the Unpinnable: Why the Greens at Winged Foot are Great
September 15, 2020 By: Andy Johnson — “I wish we played a course like this every week. We’d learn how to putt.” – Jack Nicklaus at the 1974 U.S. Open People often describe the greens at the West Course at Winged […]
Welcome to Winged Foot: Gil Hanse’s hole-by-hole tour of this week’s U.S. Open venue
September 15, 2020 By: Gil Hanse, with Dylan Dethier — Only a handful of host courses in the United States can match the aura of our national championship. Think Shinnecock. Oakmont. Pebble. Pinehurst No. 2. Like those masterpieces, Winged Foot Golf Club is […]
Gil Hanse Restores Courses to Their Glory
September 16, 2020 By: Paul Sullivan — Gil Hanse is an acclaimed golf-course architect, who teamed with the L.P.G.A. Hall of Famer Amy Alcott to build the Olympic course for the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016. This week his restoration […]
Extending the major grind
September 11, 2020 By: Bradley Klein — He hasn’t had a day off since early February and he won’t have one until after the U.S. Open. That’s normally what you get when you lead the course preparations for a U.S. Open, though […]