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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Shack Show With Guest Gil Hanse
June 9, 2020 — While the Colonial focus for this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge is rightfully on the “challenge” of putting on the first major COVID-19 era golf tournament, the course is always an integral part of Colonial week. So I […]
An inside look at the progress of PGA Frisco — the biggest public golf course project North Texas has ever seen
June 5, 2020 By: Mark Kazlowski — FRISCO — Mark your calendars. Two years from now, if all goes as planned, the biggest public golf course project North Texas has ever seen will be unveiled. PGA Frisco, the $520 million mixed-use […]
Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 6, ft. Gil Hanse
May 21, 2020 — In this volume of the Salon, architect Gil Hanse sits with Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina to discuss how he and design partner Jim Wagner build golf courses. They talk about the sanctity of being on machinery, if routing is more vital to a good […]
With Southern Hills in place for 2030, here’s a look at the next 15 PGA Championship venues
May 13, 2020 By: Kyle Porter — We aren’t positive about when the 2020 PGA Championship is going to be played (although it’s currently scheduled for Aug. 6-9), but on the bright side we do have a date for the 2030 PGA […]
Southern Hills to host 2030 PGA Championship
May 12, 2020 By: Joel Beall — Southern Hills was awarded a future PGA Championship in 2017, although the date was not specified. On Tuesday, the PGA of America cleared up the ambiguity, as the Wanamaker Trophy will visit the Oklahoma […]
“Our new courses have an eye towards the past and the traditions of the game”
May 11, 2020 By: Richard Wax — In the second of Richard Wax’s two-part interview with Gil Hanse, we hear how Hanse became a golf course architect, his work on the Olympic course in Rio de Janeiro, as well as his […]