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 ...

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 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 ...

Michelle Wie West recalls her early days in golf with new Par 3 course as her design debut at Candyroot Lodge in South Carolina.

Some of golf's best classic golf architects have origins in Philadelphia, but can we really look at their contributions as a whole?

In 2019, while speaking to the American Society of Golf Course Architects at their annual meeting, I remarked, “OK, I get that folks love Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and their courses. Who doesn’t ...

Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects has been hired to breathe new life into a layout in one of the most incredible ...

Pete Dye, one of golf’s most well-known architects, died Thursday, according to a statement put out by his family. He was 94. Dye designed numerous golf courses during a career that began in 1959 ...

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 ...

Candyroot Lodge is slated to open its first course in November, and Michelle Wie West is designing a short course with ...