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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
10 thoughts from fire-breathing Winged Foot as it readies for yet another U.S. Open close-up
August 28, 2020 By: Alan Bastable — MAMARONECK, N.Y. — When the U.S. Open returns to Winged Foot Golf Club for a sixth time next month, the eerily quiet scene will, of course, be unlike any Winged Foot Open before it. No rowdy […]
Polishing Up a Legend – Oakland Hills CC
August 28, 2020 By: Jack Barry — Oakland Hills had a Media Day with two top names in golf and all sports, Gil Hanse and Mike Tirico, to let everyone know the West Maple Rd. club is very much alive and […]
Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 200 Modern Courses
July 31, 2020 By: Jason Lusk — Welcome to Golfweek’s Best list of top 200 Modern courses, built in or after 1960. Each year we publish three lists that are the foundation of our course-ratings program: Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses, Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses, Golfweek’s […]
This golf course has been neglected for two years, but there’s hope Gil Hanse could save it
June 13, 2020 By: Derek Duncan — The long-term consequences of golf courses sitting fallow for extended periods of time was a very real concern this past spring, as people around the world retreated indoors into quarantine. The thought of courses being […]