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All-original golf course photography by a golf obsessive. Cameos by Gracie & Maddie 🐕🐕. All photos ©️: Jon Cavalier. $500k+ raised for dog rescue charities.
I always try to be a tolerant person, accepting of all views and opinions, and I am always interested exploring the differences in what makes us who we are… But if you don’t love Swinley Forest, we just can’t be friends. A line has to be drawn somewhere.
The par-4 9th at Friar’s Head might be my favorite golf hole built in the last 25 years. Tipping out at just under 400 yards (Friar’s doesn’t really do official yardages), the hole begins from atop a giant sand dune with a stunning view of the epic clubhouse and Long Island…
We’re exactly two months out from the start of the 2025 Ryder Cup Matches at the People’s Country Club. Not since Germany fought the Western Allies and Russia in WWII has a European team faced a two-front battle as formidable as Bethpage Black and New York golf fans. It’s going…
Blue hour at Blue Mound Golf & Country Club, a terrific 1926 Seth Raynor design on the outskirts of Milwaukee. Lot of really great template renditions here - the Redan, Eden, Short and Biarritz are all excellent, and the Hog’s Back and Road Hole are outstanding - but it’s the…
So many people were nagging me to go see Huntington Country Club that I finally broke down and did, and I’m annoyed at all of you that you didn’t make me go see it sooner. The golf course is terrific. Devereux Emmet might just be the most underrated of the golden age greats, and…
Some new shots of the beautiful Bally’s Links at Ferry Point. Opened in 2014 (I played here the day it opened - the allure of New York City’s first new public course in more than 50 years was too much to resist), Ferry Point is links style by Jack Nicklaus golf atop a reclaimed…
So nice to get back to Cold Spring Country Club - this 1919 classic will always hold a special place for me as one of the first Seth Raynor courses I ever played. The club is in the midst of a re-Raynoring, and the early results are terrific. The removal of trees opens the…
67 years ago today, Llanerch Country Club in Philadelphia hosted the final round of the first PGA Championship to be played as stroke play. Dow Finsterwald, one of the game’s true gentlemen, beat out Billy Casper and Sam Snead for his lone major win. Hard to believe that 5…
Sunset over an underrated punchbowl at an underrated golf course: the 16th at Southampton Golf Club (Seth Raynor, 1925). You guys know I love me a good Macdonald-Raynor punchbowl. But this one is unique for a few reasons, including its short length. Most punchbowl holes are…
With Scottie Scheffler’s dominant Open Championship win today at Portrush, this year’s majors are over. Fortunately, we have only 263 days until April 9, 2026, when the 90th Masters Tournament begins.
So nice to get back to Manufacturers’ Golf & Country Club this evening. I’ve long been a big fan of this 1925 William Flynn gem, but these days, every time I go back, it seems like Ron Forse and Jim Nagle have done something to make it better than the last time. Plus, riding the…
26 years ago today, Jean Van de Velde made this hole famous. But looking back on that fateful trip down the 18th at Carnoustie in the last round of the 1999 Open, two things stand out to me: 1. The putt he made for 7 to get himself into the playoff remains one of the gutsiest…
