September 15, 2020 By: Andy Johnson — “I wish we played a course like this every week. We’d learn how to putt.” – Jack Nicklaus at the 1974 U.S. Open People often describe the greens at the West Course at Winged […]
Welcome to Winged Foot: Gil Hanse’s hole-by-hole tour of this week’s U.S. Open venue
September 15, 2020 By: Gil Hanse, with Dylan Dethier — Only a handful of host courses in the United States can match the aura of our national championship. Think Shinnecock. Oakmont. Pebble. Pinehurst No. 2. Like those masterpieces, Winged Foot Golf Club is […]
Gil Hanse Restores Courses to Their Glory
September 16, 2020 By: Paul Sullivan — Gil Hanse is an acclaimed golf-course architect, who teamed with the L.P.G.A. Hall of Famer Amy Alcott to build the Olympic course for the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016. This week his restoration […]
Extending the major grind
September 11, 2020 By: Bradley Klein — He hasn’t had a day off since early February and he won’t have one until after the U.S. Open. That’s normally what you get when you lead the course preparations for a U.S. Open, though […]
Hanse Golf Course Design to redefine the face of Golf in South Florida at Jonathan’s Landing
September 1, 2020 — Jonathan’s Landing Golf Club, Jupiter, FL
10 thoughts from fire-breathing Winged Foot as it readies for yet another U.S. Open close-up
August 28, 2020 By: Alan Bastable — MAMARONECK, N.Y. — When the U.S. Open returns to Winged Foot Golf Club for a sixth time next month, the eerily quiet scene will, of course, be unlike any Winged Foot Open before it. No rowdy […]
Polishing Up a Legend – Oakland Hills CC
August 28, 2020 By: Jack Barry — Oakland Hills had a Media Day with two top names in golf and all sports, Gil Hanse and Mike Tirico, to let everyone know the West Maple Rd. club is very much alive and […]
Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 200 Modern Courses
July 31, 2020 By: Jason Lusk — Welcome to Golfweek’s Best list of top 200 Modern courses, built in or after 1960. Each year we publish three lists that are the foundation of our course-ratings program: Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses, Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses, Golfweek’s […]
Work Begins on The Ranch Golf Club
July 9, 2020 By: Joe Barks — The 18-hole, par-71, 7,015-yard private course in Valentine, Neb. will be next door to The Prairie Club and add to the appeal of golf in the state’s scenic Sand Hills region, with a layout […]
Local nonprofit chosen to revitalize D.C.’s three historic public golf courses
June 24, 2020 By: Scott Allen — In February 2019, Washington natives and accomplished golf course designers Michael McCartin and Will Smith founded National Links Trust, a privately funded nonprofit dedicated to promoting and protecting affordability, accessibility and engaging architecture at municipal […]
This dream team of golf course architects is tackling D.C.’s munis (for free!)
June 23, 2020 By: Dylan Dethier — When our Michael Bamberger visited East Potomac Park last year, he described the scene as such: “There are two nine-hole courses beside the Blue Course, plus a tired driving range and a clubhouse and snack bar […]
How the National Links Trust hopes to revitalize golf and community in Washington, D.C.
June 23, 2020 By: Derek Duncan — There’s an old saying, particularly appropriate in these times, that proclaims “be the change you want to see.” Mike McCartin and Will Smith, golf course shapers and designers turned public golf advocates, have done […]
The new value of golf’s green spaces
June 14, 2020 By: Syngenta Growing Golf — The opportunity for golf now is to think about how it can improve course environments for the benefit of customers – and the planet. Bland golfing landscapes with lollipop trees and limited biodiversity […]
This golf course has been neglected for two years, but there’s hope Gil Hanse could save it
June 13, 2020 By: Derek Duncan — The long-term consequences of golf courses sitting fallow for extended periods of time was a very real concern this past spring, as people around the world retreated indoors into quarantine. The thought of courses being […]
The Shack Show With Guest Gil Hanse
June 9, 2020 — While the Colonial focus for this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge is rightfully on the “challenge” of putting on the first major COVID-19 era golf tournament, the course is always an integral part of Colonial week. So I […]