April 24, 2022 By: Josh Sens — What exactly makes a golf course great? Scores of weighty volumes and a zillion breezy blog posts have addressed this question, many of them settling on this answer: Great courses marry artistry and scenery […]
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 […]
Beauty of match play on display at Gil Hanse’s Ohoopee
January 24, 2020 By: Jay Blasi — In December the Presidents Cup was played at Royal Melbourne in Australia, giving golf fans a chance to see the game’s best compete on one of the game’s great courses. It also was a […]
The Golfer’s Journal Podcast Episode 45: The War on Par ft. Gil Hanse
January 9, 2020 — TGJ No. 10 introduces us to the Ohoopee Match Club—a discreet Georgia playground designed specifically to ignore par. Inspired by this concept, host Tom Coyne taps Ohoopee architect Gil Hanse to understand how the edict to eliminate […]
America’s Best New Courses, 2019: An in-depth look at the public and private winners
December 3, 2019 By: Ron Whitten — So, what goes into determining Golf Digest’s ranking of America’s Best New Golf Courses? In 2019, over 1,600 Golf Digest panelists across the U.S. and Canada played and evaluated Best New candidate courses, scoring each […]