Garden City Golf Club hosted the 3rd Walker Cup Match (after NGLA and St. Andrews) in 1924. This was the last of the annual matches, as the current biannual schedule was adopted. Despite not being able to host a pro tournament (for lack of length and logistics), Garden City

#WalkerCupWeek continues with a look at some of the “other” holes at Cypress Point - while everyone knows of the famed 15-16-17 stretch, these lesser-known but no less outstanding holes may prove critical this week:. The 11th - this terrific 475yd par-4 plays to a green backed by

At Reagan. It’s now every time you fly. Delayed. Claiming maintenance issues. It’s every time.

The Old Course at St. Andrews has hosted the #WalkerCup a whopping 9 times out of the 49 times it has been played. No other venue has hosted more than twice. #WalkerCupWeek

One absolutely indisputable fact about the Walker Cup is this: it is played on the best set of venues of any golf tournament. Right out of the gate in 1922: National Golf Links of America. If you’ve ever wondered what it must be like to play golf in a painting, this is as close

It’s finally here: Walker Cup week at Cypress Point! I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for a golf event. A special shoutout to three-time U.S. Mid-Amateur champ (including two at my home courses - Stonewall & Sleepy Hollow) Stew Hagestad, who is making his FIFTH

Thanks to all of you who helped wish a happy 12th birthday to the Queen of the Links, the Logo of LinksGems, the smile bringer and the love slinger, and the best golf buddy ever. Here’s to a happy 13th year for Gracie filled with fairways, pools and tennis balls. 🐾🎾

It's almost time for some new faces to take the stage in our upcoming collab with Ensemble Stars!! Music. Which duo are you excited to see?. Collaboration starts September 4~

Perspectives on North Berwick - . After looking and so many different angles of this place, I realized it doesn’t matter: whichever way you look, all you see is something awesome.

12 years of running, sunning and funning with the best buddy a guy could ever have. Happy 12th birthday, Gracie! 🎉

Friday night lights: Golden Gate edition. 9-hole and par-3 courses are currently en vogue, but none that I can recall are as pretty as the Cliffs Course at the Olympic Club. Perched on a sliver of land between Skyline Boulevard, the Pacific Ocean and former Nike Missile Site

Woking Golf Club. They say that it all started here - the heady brew of art and science that we know today as golf course architecture and strategic design - when members John Low and Stuart Patton decided to drop a few centerline bunkers into the 4th fairway. Even without its

Birthday celebrations continue…. On the left is the first photo I ever took of Gracie - November 2, 2013. I sent it to my wife to tell her to prepare the apartment for a second pup. On the right is the most recent photo of Gracie, taken this evening on her 12th birthday.

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Please join me in wishing the Queen of the Links, and my best girl, the happiest 12th birthday. While today, August 29, is her official birthday, we’ll be doing some celebrating all weekend long for this special pup.

2026 is a big year of Philadelphia golf, starting with the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club. Aronimink is a core part of Philly golf history. The club is 130 years old, and it acquired its current property a century ago next year. Other than Merion, it’s the only

In discussions about Seth Raynor with my fellow golf architecture nerds (including one today, which spurred this post), the most common knock is that “all his courses are the same” and that he “just built the same holes over and over.”. A side-by-side look at two of his greatest

Whistling Straits was the site of the Ryder Cup on U.S. soil. Here, in 2021, the result was a 19-9 American drubbing of the Euro team. Two years later in Italy, the Euros came back and slapped a star-studded and heavily favored U.S. team across the face with a 5 point loss.

We’re now just a month out from the People’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York, which promises to be … interesting. The U.S. team is now finalized - congrats to longtime LinksGems favorite Justin Thomas (4th time) and to Sleepy Hollow’s own Cam Young (1st). And congrats

Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.

The “LinksGems Best New Courses of the 2020s” list does not actually exist, but if it did, I’m sure of two things:. 1) with so many terrific new courses opening, the competition would be fierce, and. 2) Cabot St. Lucia’s Point Hardy would be a strong betting favorite for no. 1

By request, a few new shots from Friar’s Head to brighten up your week. As golf courses go, this one is as pretty as they come.