An inexpensive public access facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Mines golf course was designed by local architect Mike DeVries and offers green fee golfers some real fun and adventure across a petty dramatic golfing landscape. The site itself was a century old Gypsum mine that had been left
The Dunes Course at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club first opened for play in 1925, having been routed and initially designed by Seth Raynor, but completed by Robert Hunter after Raynor’s untimely death. Hunter was a partner with Dr. Alister MacKenzie and his design style was vastly d
Golf Digest Magazine says in its 2013/2014 rankings profile:
Unlike nearby Wade Hampton Golf Club, a Tom Fazio 100 Greatest member routed through natural valleys to forego the need for dynamite, Mountaintop was blasted from solid rock, some holes forged through mount
Among the five founding members of the USGA, the Newport Country Club is one of the nation’s most historic golfing institutions, having hosted both the inaugural US Amateur and US Open Championships in 1895. The club’s first nine holes were designed by head professional William Davis
A private members club built along an isolated stretch of the south Georgia shoreline, Ocean Forest was designed by Rees Jones in 1995 and is part of a prestige housing development. As its name suggests, the course is both heavily wooded and close by the Atlantic coast but there is a distinct low
Built after MacKenzie’s death but apparently to plans that he had left the University, the Scarlet Course at Ohio State first opened for play in 1938 but has been substantially overhauled in the decades since, most notably by Uni alumni Jack Nicklaus. Today’s layout barely resembles t
Orchard Lake is a private country club northwest of Detroit, with an 18-hole layout originally designed by Charles H. Alison in 1927. Set on undulating parkland close to a beautiful lake, the golf course here features a number of steeply angled green complexes and a series of testing holes rou
One of the most cherished municipal golf courses in America, the Pacific Grove Golf Links started life in 1932 as a nine-hole course on the northern tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Like the other golf courses in the area, this one owes is very existence to Pebble Beach founder Samuel Morse, who
The Stadium Course at PGA West is a badly dated and horrendously over-shaped resort layout full of penal hazards, artificial mounding, obscured greens hidden beyond massive bumps/humps and water in play on 9 holes. Much of the shaping and hazard location makes no sense from a strategic standpoint
