In 2003 I went to Scotland for the first time — the tour consisted of rounds at Stonehaven (while my wife was traveling with me), Belleisle, Turnberry’s two courses...
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Listed: Golf Digest’s latest world ranking is an epic failure
“By all means screw their women and drink their booze, but never write one word about their bloody awful golf courses...
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Course Preview: Cabot Links exceeds expectations
How good is Cabot Links? I can’t seemingly go anywhere these days without someone asking me, whether it was the caddymaster at...
Read More Cabot Links: Top 100 hype?
On Monday afternoon I jump on a jet and fly to Sydney, NS, for the second time this year. The trip is only three days long and...
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Sympatico Column: On Playing St. Andrews
My latest Sympatico column is on the subject of playing St. Andrews, which I was lucky enough to do in 2003 and again a year later. Interestingly, I was suppposed to play it again in 2006...
Postcards From Long Island: Ken Bakst, Bill Coore and...
It is always a real pleasure to get a chance to meet and speak with the best in the business — regardless of whether we’re talking high-finance, technology, entrepreneurism or...
New Posts on Kingsbarns/Kyle Phillips, Florida's...
While I’m prepping for a trip to LA to visit TaylorMade’s facilities this week and hang out at the Northern Trust Open on Tuesday, I’ve posted some more travel and...
Kyle Phillips’ Kingsbarns: Modern and Magnificent
Writer’s Note: I spoke with Kyle Phillips about two years after the opening of Kingsbarns, near St. Andrews, Scotland, a point at which it was being considered among the best new...
Securing the Old Course: Try the ballot
Writer’s Note: I wrote this story after my first experience in Scotland, and specifically at The Old Course. The notion is that the course is impossible to play without shelling out...
Mark Parsinen to build in Inverness, Scotland
Mark Parsinen, the creator of Kingsbarns, the great links near St. Andrews, is poised to do it again, this time near Inverness. The site is to be called Castle Stuart and sounds like a...
Top courses in the world…
With a baby in the house, I realize there is little chance I’ll play anything further in Golf magazine’s top 100 in the world. But it has been a good year nonetheless…...
The Links Revolution
Voices of Golf: Desire for old-style links sparks revolution — written sfor PGATour.com By Robert Thompson There’s a quiet revolution happening in the golf course business. But...