One of the most exclusive clubs in America, the San Francisco Golf Club was formed toward the end of the 19th century but did not begin golfing on its present A.W. Tillinghast layout until 1915. Located a few miles south of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Tillinghast course was a landmark in this cou

The 2006 opening of Southampton’s Sebonack Golf Club was one of the most eagerly anticipated in many a decade. For a start the course was built immediately beside the hallowed golfing ground of the National Golf Links of America, and secondly it was the result of a rather unlikely design co

A landmark American classic, the Seminole Golf Club was formed during the late 1920s and its golf course designed by Donald Ross, in the prime of his extraordinary career. Set beside the Atlantic, the land allocated to Ross for this course was unique for this part of Florida as it featured a smal

Bringing the most sophisticated design team in golf to arguably the least sophisticated market in the world was always going to be a fascinating experiment, and one with all sorts of possibilities and permutations. So it has been with the Shanqin Bay project on the south-east coast of China&r

The prestigious Somerset Hills Country Club was founded in 1899, its early members golfing on a cramped nine-hole course beside the Ravine Lake in north-central New Jersey. Lacking the space required for a full eighteen holes, the club soon looked to expand and in 1916 they purchased a vast estat

Golf was first introduced to the charming Cornish sailing town of Rock in 1890, when holidaying Londoners formed the St Enodoc Golf Club on its sandy headland. Situated on the North Shore of the Camel Estuary and enjoying superb views across the Cornwall coastline, the St Enodoc linksland is an u

A privileged members-only golf and country club, St. George’s actually started life in 1929 as a public course built within one of Canada’s first golf estates close to downtown Toronto. With a growing reputation for producing fine golf courses on fine golf land, Stanley Thompson was s

The prettiest, and possibly the best, of all heathland courses in Great Britain, St George’s Hill was the vision of a builder, George Tarrant, who in 1911 purchased almost 1,000 acres on St George’s Hill in Weybridge, and then conceived of one of the world’s earliest golf and re

‘All that one would hope to find in the ideal golf club is in abundance at Sunningdale.’ Sir Michael Bonallack.Home to the earliest outstanding inland course in Britain, the Sunningdale Golf Club is a true pioneer that helped to popularize one of the finest natura

‘All that one would hope to find in the ideal golf club is in abundance at Sunningdale.’ Sir Michael Bonallack. Home to the earliest outstanding inland course in Britain, the Sunningdale Golf Club is a true pioneer that helped to popularize one of the finest