Having just visited this fine peninsula town and not having played its namesake and finest golfing track, I thought best to revisit my archives from mid-decade and relive post facto some of the pleasure that is San Francisco Golf Club. This would be Tillinghast’s most notable ‘best-coast’ effort of course, with a little love [...]
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CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- ELIE
Welcome to Golf House Club at Elie, you are on the south coast of Fife in Scotland, a stiff forty-five minute drive south from the home of the sport. The spectacle bunkers at that awkward bunker shot distance from the 12th green seem a fitting vantage to view this spectacular yet unheralded links. The [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- HIGHLAND GL
Highland Golf Links has but nine holes situated out on the farthest reaches of Cape Cod headland, and would surely be more serviceable from the perspective of economic utility if it were a seaside resort or subdivided with vacation villas. Despite this oversight that capitalism will no doubt rectify in the coming era, the course [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- WILD HORSE
Alas and alack and cow patties in my crumpet, this week’s pictorial homage from me must go to the best public course ‘tween the Mississippi and the Colorado Rivers, if not further afield, the Wild Horse Golf Club. I know that the moving-picture show has visited the course recently for PBG in rightful commendation of Josh [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- WESTWARD HO!
The Royal North Devon Golf Club, done your way since 1864 in, you guessed it, Devonshire, England. Also known in the modern era as ‘Who you callin’ a Westward Ho!’ and wholeheartedly praised by those meandering off the beaten golf tracks of the United Kingdom. This course is all about the sport in its purest sense, with historic [...]
CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK- CASTLE COURSE
My most recent quest brought me to the seventh installment at the St.Andrews Links Trust, which is David Kidd’s Castle Course, an effort that brings some of the prominent aspects of modern golf design to the outskirts of golf’s home. While it is not perfect, in many spots it is quite beautiful, and it certainly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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