Standing right alongside Pinehurst’s famed No. 2 Course, and noted for its unusual mix of small pot bunkers and large sandy waste areas, the No. 4 course is a Tom Fazio layout built directly atop an old Donald Ross course that had supposedly become old, tired and fallen beyond repair or res
Significant for its role in helping Seth Raynor develop into a legitimate golf course architect, the Piping Rock Club was established in 1911 within the exclusive Long Island village of Locust Valley. Mixing polo and hunting with the emerging sport of golf, the club purchased a 340-acre meadow an
Covered in low-set dunes and small sandy hollows, the 27-hole Portmarnock Golf Club occupies most of a 500-acre peninsula wedged between the Irish Sea and a tidal inlet to the north of Dublin Bay. Originally accessible only by boat, Scottish insurance broker W.C. Pickeman and his friend George Ro
The Portsea Golf Club was founded in 1924 among the tea-tree covered sand dunes that bordered Victoria’s Point Nepean National Park. The first nine-hole course was designed by Scottish professional Jock Young and opened for play in 1926 after fifteen men had taken almost twelve months to cl
Situated along Northern Ireland’s magnificent Causeway Coast and only a few miles from Royal Portrush, the Portstewart Strand Course was created in 1992, though it features eleven holes designed by Willie Park Jr back when the club was first formed in 1894. Park’s superb opening hole,
‘This is the kind of landscape we architects try to create, but at Praia D'El Rey it's all here naturally.’ Cabell B. RobinsonAn hour north of Lisbon lies Portugal’s Silver Coast, an area of outstanding natural beauty blessed with rugged cliffs, pristine bea
‘The Prince is one of the premier golf course designs of my life’ Robert Trent JonesPossibly the world’s most exclusive golf club, Le Prince de Provence was actually conceived as part of multi-course residential development by Robert Trent Jones during the 1
Located directly across the road from Winged Foot, the Quaker Ridge Golf Club is an equally prestigious, though quietly unassuming, club that was established in 1916 on the site of a short nine-hole course built the previous year. A.W. Tillinghast was hired by the founding membership to redesign
‘At Querencia I feel we never compromised on creating the best possible course on a very unique and special piece of land.’ Tom FazioQuerencia is a private golf and housing estate built in hills that overlook the coastline on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. Full of
‘Opportunities such as this are rare’ Arthur Hills on Oitavos Golfe
Located within the Sintra-Cascais National Park, the Quinta da Marinha development is situated on coastal dune land just 30 minutes west of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, and en
