‘I sincerely believe this course to be the fairest test of championship golf I have ever designed.’ Donald RossAn American icon, Pinehurst was created as a holiday village and winter health retreat by Massachusetts entrepreneur James Tufts, following his 1895 purc
One of the surprise packets of northern New Jersey, the Plainfield County Club was established in 1890 but today golf’s on a restored Donald Ross masterpiece that dates back to 1921. Built atop the lush, rolling slopes of Edison, the Ross layout is noted for its ferociously contoured greens
A genuine American treasure, the Prairie Dunes Country Club is located in the heart of central Kansas, but built among the sort of undulating sandhills that one would expect to find along the Scottish coastline. The club was founded by Emerson Carey, a prominent local golfer who discovered this n
‘A man is less likely to be contradicted in lauding Prestwick than singing the praises of any other course in Christendom’ Bernard DarwinBirthplace of the Open Championship, the historic Prestwick Golf Club is one of the oldest along Scotland’s golf-rich Wes
Although the formation of the (Royal) Aberdeen Golf Club in 1780 was the birth of organized golf in Scotland’s North East, the genesis of the game in this region dates back much further. In fact Aberdeen’s initial layout, the Queen’s Links, was the subject of the world’s e
Superbly located on the Glamorgan Coast between Cardiff and Swansea, the Royal Porthcawl Golf Club was formed in 1891 by a group of Cardiff businessmen on common land in the seaside town of Porthcawl. In 1895 the club found a permanent home on an adjacent seaside site, its original layout modifie
Situated on Northern Ireland’s beautiful North coast, the Royal Portrush Golf Club occupies an ancient dune system that runs alongside the Atlantic Ocean and overlooks the Giant’s Causeway headland and its towering limestone cliff edges. Founded inland of the sandhills in 1888, the cl
‘The first nine holes – tremendous fun, not very good golf. Second nine holes – tremendous golf, no fun at all.’ Walter Hagen on Sandwich in 1928Established back in 1887, the Royal St. George’s Golf Club was primarily founded by quality deprived
A storied nine-hole course in England’s Suffolk County, the Royal Worlington & Newmarket Golf Club was established in 1893 as the home course of Cambridge University golfers. The layout, which was first created by Tom Dunn and later modified by Harry Colt, has remained untouched for
'I will not say there are not greater links than Rye, but I will say that there are few which combine and gather into one place so many of those qualities which make the game of golf unique.' Patric DickinsonPrestigious and extremely private, the Rye Golf Club in the south of
