GOLF’s Top 100 course panelists are among the most respected and well-traveled course evaluators in the game. They’re also keen to share their opinions. In this GOLF.com series, we’ll unlock their ...

The first amateur golf design competition was likely held in 1914 when Country Life Magazine asked readers to submit suggestions for a theoretical hole. Actual architect C.B. Macdonald, one of the ...

The inaugural Golf Digest March Madness Architects of Golf tournament, born out of desire for the actual NCAA basketball tournaments never played and inspiration from a course-enthusiast on Twitter, ...

With the arrival of each new Top 100 ranking, the world’s premier course architects peek to see where their work stands — even as they’re skeptical about this business of calling something “the best.” ...

He’s got this gravelly, identifiable voice. He’s slow and steady – and often, these days, Rod Whitman is winning the race. Whitman, now 69, is spearheading some impressive projects and is showing no ...

A cadre of design critics claims that golf course architecture slipped into a dark place from 1945 to 1975, emerging only when Pete Dye began to hit his stride. Others extend the time period another ...

The fairways, greens and bunkers of the upcoming private Kawonu Golf Club are beginning to take form. Construction on the exclusive site in Simpsonville, South Carolina, was showcased for the first ...

Playing a round with a golf course architect can be an education. You never quite know when, without prompting, the placement of bunkers will be pondered or a discourse on mounding will occur: “You ...

For the course architect Tom Doak, holes and fairways are only two pieces of a puzzle that includes topography, infrastructure and much more. By Michael Croley Golf may be one of Scotland’s gifts to ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- CBS is your home for golf's biggest game of the year. The Masters Tournament will finish on Sunday with the fitting of the green jacket. One Minnesota woman will be watching, but ...

Legendary golf course architect Pete Dye, whose designs have played host to dozens of USGA championships, died on Jan. 9 in Gulf Stream, Fla., 12 days after turning 94. His death comes 11 months after ...

Tom Doak is a golf course architect who wrote a frank account of courses he has played around the world. Here are his reviews of some of the Chicago-area courses: Beverly Country Club: A very ...