‘Specifically designed by The Almighty for playing golf’ Old Tom Morris on the linksland at MachrihanishSituated at the southern tip of Scotland’s romantic Kintyre Peninsula, the Machrihanish Golf Club is one of the most remote courses in golf and started li
The origins of Philadelphia’s treasured Merion Golf Club date back to the 1865 formation of the Merion Cricket Club, one of America’s earliest sporting organizations. Members of the cricket club, who also dabbled in tennis and bowling, built themselves a simple nine-hole golf course o
Supposedly founded by a group of bespectacled men from Boston, the charming Myopia Hunt Club was established as a golf, horse and hunting club in the village of South Hamilton in 1894. Designed by member Herbert Leeds, the first nine holes were opened in 1896, with the full eighteen completed by
‘At Sydney, I made an entirely new course for the New South Wales Golf Club at a place called La Perouse. This is a sand-duned peninsula which overlooks Botany Bay and presents, I think, more spectacular views than any other place I know, with the possible exception of the new Cypress P
Golf was first introduced to the sleepy seaside hamlet of North Berwick in East Lothian during the early 17th century, though it wasn’t until players shifted from the Burgh Common onto what later became the West Links a century later that the game really started to flourish here. Confined a
One of the most demanding layouts in world golf, the Oakmont Country Club was founded in 1903 by Pittsburgh industrialist Henry C. Fownes. An accomplished amateur golfer, Fownes designed the course himself on rolling pastureland he had purchased north-east of the city. Together with son William,
Set amongst the glorious pinehills and spacious sand dunes of eastern Massachusetts, the Old Sandwich golf course was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and first opened for play in 2005. Located a short drive south of Plymouth and within three miles of Cape Cod, this private members club wa
A short drive from the nation’s capital, ‘windy’ Wellington, New Zealand’s most famous piece of golfing ground was first used for the game back in 1929 when a group of local residents created a nine-hole course on leased sandhills within the seaside village of Paraparaumu
The Pasatiempo Golf Club was founded by Marion Hollins, one of the finest female athletes of the 1920s and a woman who had driven the development of the Cypress Point Club before making a fortune investing in a Californian oil company. With her wealth she purchased a 570-acre parcel of land in th
Situated at the southern end of California’s Monterey Peninsula, Pebble Beach was developed by business entrepreneur Samuel F.B. Morse, who first saw the property while acting as liquidator for a company wanting to offload its failed investment in the region. Morse felt that a golf course a
