Built on only 126 acres in the affluent seaside hamlet of East Hampton, the East Hampton Golf Club is a beautifully intimate and intricate challenge created by design partners Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The course starts within an open pasture, the first seven holes tumbling gently across softl
One of South Africa’s oldest golf clubs, East London’s current course is a charming layout built amongst thick native bush on fabulous coastal duneland along the Eastern Cape. Reminiscent of other heavily wooded seaside courses such as Newcastle in Australia, it was designed by George
The historic Medieval village of Kitzbühel, high in the Austrian Alps, is home to the new Kyle Phillips designed Eichenheim course, which is one of the finest Mountain tracks on the continent and a clear standout in golf starved Austria.Built on heavily undulating countryside, th
Ekwanok was one of the first quality courses in the United States, the club founded in 1899 and the course first open for play the next year, its holes designed by John Dunn and amateur legend Walter Travis. In subsequent decades the layout has endured much revision, bunker additions and back tee
Designed by Javier Araña, Spain’s most accomplished golf course architect, the El Saler Golf Club is located within a nature reserve outside the city of Valencia. Adjacent to the Mediterranean coastline and a mix of virgin dunes and rolling woodland, the course is Araña’
Despite its small-town setting, the 2006 opening of Wisconsin’s Erin Hills golf course was one of the most eagerly anticipated of recent years. This was not due to the event being carried out with any great fanfare, but rather because the unopened layout had already been awarded a National
The oldest country club in New Jersey, the Essex County Country Club has a long and glorious history dating back its inception in 1887 as a club for the ‘encouragement of athletic exercises and sports.’ Since that time the membership roll has included notable Americans such as Colo
Located at the southern end of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the Eugene Country Club was founded in 1899 but moved to its present home during the 1920s, where a new course was designed by leading amateur golfer H. Chandler Egan. The Egan course survived until 1967, when Robert Trent Jones rev
One of Sweden’s oldest golf clubs, Falsterbo was founded in 1909 in a small village on the tip of a scenic peninsula south of Malmö. Occupying a thin strip of linksland where the Öresund meets the Baltic Sea, members originally golfed on a nine-hole layout designed by Copenhagen G
