Pinehurst, August 4, 2011— The U.S. Kids Golf Championships are back in the sandhills for the fifth consecutive year. That means more than 1,300 children and...

VANCOUVER, July 24, 2011— Does it seem like amateur golfers are making more of a mark on the professional tours the past few years or is it just me? If there...

ARDMORE, PA., July 1, 2011— The PGA Tour is visiting Aronimink Golf Club this week for the second consecutive year. Aronimink is one of the classic courses t...

MALVERN, PA., June 28, 2011— Just recently in my life I have learned to succumb to my gut instinct. For the most part I have done that in the past, but mostl...

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2011— “Watch this weekend to see how the pressure combined with the stage produces one of the more memorable finishes in golf.” That’s m...

Why would a private country club give up the use of their golf course in order to host a major golf event? The amount of infrastructure that converges on a c...

China, China, China. The biggest word in golf development over the past few years has been China. With no new development here in the United States, everyone...

I am so tired of hearing how no man wants to be Number One in the world of golf. Every week we hear that Martin Kaymer, Lee Westwood, Luke Donald or others c...

The people have spoken! They don’t mind walking to the opposite side of the golf hole from the cart path in order to tee off! Thanks, I needed that in a big w...

It looks as though the famed Heritage Classic, played at Pete Dye’s Harbour Town Golf Links has found a title sponsor, keeping the PGA Tour on Hilton Head Is...

Augusta, Ga. April 6, 2011 – Although the temperature is still struggling to pass fifty degrees in much of the southeast, we know spring is here. Not just be...

The greatest upset in golfing history happened last Sunday, much larger than Francis Ouimet’s victory at The Country Club nearly a century ago. Yes, Bill Mur...

I once got chastised for not raking a bunker “properly” when caddying at the 1989 LPGA Greater Washington Open as my player was miss-aligning herself to a fi...

The Bob Hope Classic had only two of the top thirty golfers in the world participate (and only six of the top fifty). To me, that is more of a red flag that ...

My personal battle between the business of golf architecture and my avocation that is golf architecture is a struggle on many fronts. As a guy who is constan...

Most people would rather watch paint dry than watch a golf tournament on television. Golfers as a whole are an odd bunch and what contributes to our oddity i...

I recently made my seventh trip to China in the past year. The first two trips were to investigate new development opportunities and the other five were for ...

In: Aronimink, St. George’s, The Old White Course, Sedgefield Out: TPC Avenel, Glen Abbey, Liberty National Although ten TPC courses still hosted PGA Tour ev...

Too many bunkers at Whistling Straits. That is the outcry since Dustin Johnson’s unfortunate incident on at the 72nd hole of the ninety-second PGA Championsh...

To me, utilizing the ground to gain a strategic advantage is vital to great golf course design. This begins with the routing process as a golf course archite...