Over the past half decade or so, golf fans have flocked to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to experience two of the top ranked courses in the world: Cabot Cliffs and Cabot Links.   Perhaps the most unique feature of both courses is that while located on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, they face […]

Over the past half decade or so, golf fans have flocked to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to experience two of the top ranked courses in the world: Cabot Cliffs and Cabot Links.   Perhaps the most unique feature of both courses is that while located on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, they face a […]

This NJ Shore course is a recent addition to the Golf Magazine top 100 list. The course starts off slowly with two normal-ish holes. However after the first two you come to the top of a hill and see the beautiful course in front of you. I don’t know what the course looked like before […]

Harbour Town Golf Links is a late 60’s Pete Dye designed course that is a regular spot on the PGA Tour.   The course is narrow and challenging, but strategic in nature.  The greens are well kept, especially for how much play the course sees. While the course has slipped off the “top 100” lists […]

I am catching up on some golf courses from the summer and realize I hadn’t posted about Merion. For some reason this is a course I struggle on, and while I can beat 100 now, I haven’t gone lower than 90. The course has some blind shots and deep rough and while this is great […]

I got to play Oakmont for my second time in my life this summer. It was a week where I happen to play Oakmont, Merion, Deepdale, Quaker Ridge and Winged Foot all in succession (which was awesome obviously, but also a useful point of comparison). Oakmont was by far the finest of all these courses […]

I must confess I had never heard of LGCC until so well connected golf friends of mine started talking about it. The course sits on the magnificent Lake Geneva a vacation destination for well-heeled vacationers mostly in from the nearby cities of Chicago and Milwaukee. The oldest club in Wisconsin the course boasts the longest […]

When the 2020 Golf Magazine Top 100 rankings came out, I read through the list to see what was new… To my delight, an old Donald Ross “hidden gem” called Glens Falls made the list (and even better after a google search I discovered it was just a few hour drive away from my house). […]

Caves Valley is a wonderful course located outside of Baltimore.  While ranked in the second top hundred and not the “top 100” it is certainly underrated in my opinion.   The course is immaculately maintained, challenging and yet super fun.  Recently renovated to make way for the PGA Tour BWM Championship, the bunkering is beautiful and […]

For a number of years now I have heard that Shoreacres is one of the best courses in the US and perhaps the nicest in Chicago (even over Chicago Golf Club). Located north of the city, and along Lake Michigan, the course did not disappoint and is worthy of all this golf-nerd hype.   Designed […]