September 4, 2018 By: Jim McCabe — If allowed some latitude in translating golf history, one might look at this week’s third event of the FedExCup Playoffs, the BMW Championship, and get nostalgic over the host course, Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown, […]
The World War I Flier Behind Aronimink’s Restoration
September 4, 2018 By: Frank Fitzpatrick — As he surveyed it all from the cockpit of his Bellanca CH-200 one crystalline May morning in 1929, the unspoiled countryside near Newtown Square, still laced with great estates, lush springtime thickets, and checkerboard fields […]
Gil Hanse just walked Pinehurst No. 4. We went with him…and took notes.
September 4, 2018 — Last week, Gil Hanse was in town to once more walk his new design of Pinehurst No. 4. We tagged along, and noted a few of his thoughts. With the course opening in just two weeks, it was […]
Golf’s makeover specialist, Gil Hanse, explains restoration versus renovation
September 1, 2018 — Two of the PGA Tour’s biggest September tournaments, the Dell Technologies Championship and the BMW Championship, the middle legs in the FedEx Cup playoffs, will take place on golf courses that architect Gil Hanse has substantially reworked. He […]
The Augusta Golf Show Scott Parel, Gil Hanse and John Novosel from BUSHNELL
September 1, 2018 — This weekend, Scott Parel talks about picking up his first PGA Tour Champions victory. Gil Hanse on Pinehurst #4, Ohoopee Match Club, Southern Hills and more. John Novosel from BUSHNELL talking about their new laser “Hybrd” rangefinder. Link […]
Cobbs Creek Golf Course on Verge of a Major Restoration
August 29, 2018 By: Joe Juliano — The process seemingly has taken forever, the efforts by a small yet resolute group of folks dedicated to golf and golf history who were determined to restore the luster of Cobbs Creek Golf Course, a crown […]
The Golfer’s Journal Podcast Episode 16: Gil Hanse
August 29, 2018 — Gil Hanse is one of the most prolific architects working in golf today. His original work can be seen everywhere from The Olympic Course in Rio to the wild Streamsong Black, while his restoration work has touched many […]
Five things to know about TPC Boston
August 27, 2018 By: Jim McCabe — Compared to the other three courses being used in the FedExCup Playoffs this year – Ridgewood Country Club, Aronimink Golf Club and East Lake Golf Club – TPC Boston, which will host this week’s Dell […]
The Best A.W. Tillinghast Golf Courses
August 22, 2018 By: Stephen Hennessey — It’s tough to fathom that one of the best course architects in American history did not start designing courses until, as a 32-year-old, A.W. Tillinghast was asked to help build what is now the Shawnee […]
Five things to know about Ridgewood Country Club
August 19, 2018 By: Jim McCabe — On the eve of the 2018 FedExCup Playoffs, storylines are plentiful, though likely the leading one is the return of Tiger Woods – the only multiple FedExCup winner – to postseason play for the […]
The Pirate Shipshow | Episode: 187 Gil Hanse
August 2, 2018 — Gil Hanse is one of of the best golf course architects in the world, and he joins us to discuss his renovations to Pinehurst #4, the many other course projects he’s working on, and how “Harry Arnett National” […]
Back with Black at Streamsong
August 1, 2018 By: Tom Ferrell — Close your eyes and imagine your perfect version of Florida. Perhaps you are in the dunes on a beach overlooking the Atlantic. Or maybe your vision leads you to the sugar-sand paradise of the Gulf […]
Oakland Hills Country Club: We are looking at a plan that recognises the evolution of the course
July 31, 2018 By: Richard Humphreys — The South course at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan, USA, will close in the autumn of 2019 for two years, as it undergoes a renovation by Gil Hanse. Oakland Hills members rejected an $11-million renovation […]
Pinehurst ready to unveil Gil Hanse’s ‘reimagination’ of No. 4 course
July 30, 2018 By: Richard Humphreys — PINEHURST RESORT, NC — Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in North Carolina, USA, will unveil its redesigned No. 4 course in September 2018, following a two-year ‘reimagination’ by Gil Hanse. “We’ve returned the original landscape to […]
Pinehurst Resort to Debut Gil Hanse Reimagination of No. 4 on Sept. 20
July 27, 2018 — PINEHURST RESORT, NC — Pinehurst Resort and Country Club will unveil a completely reimagined No. 4 course on Sept. 20, the work of renowned golf course architect Gil Hanse. The new 11th hole of Pinehurst No. 4, […]