Why rank golf courses? Well, because we love a good 19th-hole debate. We love to make bucket lists. We love to track trends in the sport. We love to know which architects are hot (or not). And nothing ...

The quality of a course can be tough to disentangle from its presentation, an intangible shapes that perceptions but also how ...

GOLF has been ranking the world’s best courses for the better part of four decades. And I’d wager my finest Pinehurst No. 2 ball marker against whatever you value in your bag that this ranking period ...

There are probably as many answers as there are golfers. After all, fun is in the belly laugh of the beholder. I recall a round years ago on a nine-hole course with sand greens in central Kansas where ...

It's a big week for the world of golf with the PGA Championship, the second major championship of the year being played at the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y. Back here in Florida, a place ...

Smith’s architecture program combines studio work with courses in architectural history. In studios, students explore the built environment “as a person experiences it,” building models by hand, using ...

When you think of the best public golf courses in North Carolina, you’re likely conjuring up images of Pinehurst and No. 2’s diabolical table-top Ross greens—and for good reason, as the first seven ...