One of the more remarkable golf developments of modern times, New Jersey’s Bayonne Golf Club was financed and designed by amateur architect Eric Bergstol and built upon an industrial waterfront that looks across the Hudson River toward lower Manhattan.Bergstol’s design was
Home to a number of Hollywood A-listers, the Bel-Air Country Club was founded by a wealthy oil tycoon and designed by architect George Thomas, who along with his partner William Bell, built the course across the hills and valleys of West Los Angeles. The pair began by shaping what is now the fron
A proud and storied centurion, the Bellerive Country Club was originally founded in north St. Louis back in 1897 and moved to its present home west of the city in 1960, where a new layout was designed by Robert Trent Jones on a pleasantly undulating property he had helped the club select.
Built during the heart of the Great Depression, the Bethpage State Park was a remarkably ambitious municipal golf development spread across almost 1,500 acres of woodland in central Long Island. The vision behind the park was Robert Moses, the influential president of the Long Island Parks Commis
‘Every course is special, but I guess you could say the Quarry Course was one of the milestones in my career.’ Tom FazioBlack Diamond Ranch is a remarkable 1,300-acre central Florida development located a few miles inland of the Gulf Coast and just 90 minutes nort
A real surprise find a short drive from the highly-rated but disastrous Rich Harvest Links, Black Sheep was the first full design by architect David Esler who shows great promise here. The club has 27 holes, with the course built primarily across a cornfield, the site an open, rolling prairie wit
Situated on the outskirts of the quiet Wisconsin village of Kohler, about an hour north of Milwaukee, Blackwolf Run is a 36-hole resort facility set beside the constantly winding Sheboygan River. Named after a prominent chief of the indigenous Winnebago Indians, the property was developed by Herb
One of the more dramatic modern courses in American golf, the private Boston Golf Club is situated south of Boston and built upon an abandoned rock quarry near the small township of Hingham, Massachusetts. Opening in 2005, the course was designed by architect Gil Hanse, who skilfully incorporated
Located in the northern Scottish highlands, the unpretentious links of Brora occupy an ancient tract of farming land alongside the North Sea and enjoy spectacular views across the water to the distant purple hills. Old Tom Morris first laid out a course on the site in 1891, though it was totally
