Tucked away in an idyllic corner of Surrey, the Woking Golf Club was first laid out by Tom Dunn in 1893, though it owes most of its appeal to a brilliant set of greens created by members Stuart Paton and John Low during the early 1900’s. Paton and Low transformed Woking from an ordinary lay
One of the most relentless tests of golf in the Midwest, Wolf Run is situated 20 miles north of Indianapolis and was founded by a local dentist wanting to build a demanding golf-only club for accomplished players. His selected site for the course was a partly forested tract of land blessed with b
The charming resort village of Woodhall Spa in the Lincolnshire countryside owes its existence to the discovery of mineral water in the 19th century, a discovery that almost destroyed a golf club which would later put the village on the international golfing map. Though the Woodhall Spa Golf Club
Largely unheralded outside Australia, Woodlands is yet another exceptional example of classic golf course architecture within Melbourne’s glorious Sandbelt. Though today it is one of the best bunkered courses in Australia, when formed back in 1913 the club’s landlord prohibited any ea
The World Woods Golf Club was developed by a Japanese corporation, who purchased more than 2,000 acres of forested land in west Florida and commissioned Tom Fazio to build them a pair of distinctive championship length golf courses. Both opened in 1993, with the Pine Barrens layout housing some o
Golf at Connecticut’s prestigious Yale University dates to the 1890s, when a professor of law organized for a course to be built in New Haven for interested students and local residents. As the game’s popularity increased, students started to find it difficult to access tee times so w
Formed by wealthy New Yorkers as a discrete winter retreat, Yeamans Hall was built within secluded woodlands on the northern outskirts of historic Charleston, South Carolina. The 900-acre site was selected for its proximity to the railway line linking the north of America to the south, and initia
