This is the second part of my review and video on Pete Dye Golf Club. Normally when a course takes sixteen years to build, the end result is not good. Pete Dye GC though proves that sometimes the wait is worth it. The back nine is not as strong or compelling as the front, but [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- HOLLAND
ABN AMRO Ladies Open, Eindhoven Golf , the Netherlands
June 1st – 7th, 2009
As one who frequently enters and exits other’s lives visiting in brief, sporadic spells, I hope you can understand my reluctance to say good-bye. There are those who make such a point in saying it, as if it mattered a great deal to [...]
SHISHKINE GOLF & TENNIS CLUB
On the Isle of Arran there are a number of golf courses, but none better than Shishkine Golf & Tennis Club. This Willie Park design consists of only twelve holes, seven of which are par threes, but it packs serious golf holes and amazing views into its truncated routing. While the course affords some of [...]
CASTLE STUART- BONUS MATERIAL
This week is Open week, so we are all Scotland all the time at PB Golf. Here is a little more material about Castle Stuart, which opened this week on July 13th. It is a stunning looking course and I am sure it plays as well as it looks because it is the product of [...]
HOMEOFGOLF.TV
I came across this great site Thanks to twitter. Yes, Punchbowl Golf is on twitter, so feel free to follow along. Andy Brown’s HOMEOFGOLF.TV may be the best thing I have found on twitter and I encourage everyone to go the site and check it out. I have chosen a few episodes that deal with [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- TURNBERRY
Oh, Turnberry, you are pretty, and the tee shot here at the Ninth from the tips rivals any in the world for spendour and heroism. Should be an excellent test for the Open lads, despite not being in my personal top ten for links layouts. Ignoring the plethora of obvious and renowned merits of the [...]
POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- GERMANY
HypoVereinsbank Ladies German Open,
Golfpark Gut Hauser, Munich, Germany
May 18th – 25th, 2009
The business of being on the road for an extended time is dirty business. Quite literally dirty…and smelly…and full of having strangers see your unmentionables. Monday morning, the crew had only one thing on our collective mind. Where in this town can we do [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK-10
At Loch Lomond, Jay Morrish and Tom Weiskopf bring modestly-thoughtful American golf architecture to a bog in Scotland, adjacent to a beautiful lake. And they eat it up, despite the moistness! Here is the final short hole on the course (the 17th)and the best view. Worth a trip if you are nearby and can’t catch [...]
CASTLE STUART- PART TWO
In anticipation of opening day on the 13th of July….
The fourth installment of the Castle Stuart series is narrated by Jim Wagner, the lead associate and excavator specialist for Gil Hanse Golf Design. Getting to know Jim (during the process of sharing a small farmhouse with him for weeks at a time) was one of [...]
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