Featured Golf Courses

Welcome to the TeeTime Golf Pass blog, Clubhouse Golf Guide. Here you will find feature stories on some of your favorite local, regional and destination golf courses and stories celebrating the game we love.
Play golf long enough and you’ll likely develop a healthy love-hate relationship with the game. It’s a dynamic Pete Dye, who designed many of America’s most famous and iconic golf courses, leaned into heavily with every inch of dirt he moved. Widely considered to be the most influential golf architect of the second half of the 20th century, Dye’s penchant for highly imaginative and supremely challenging layouts span the globe from here to Singapore.
Every course has a story to tell. With over 400 years of collective history, Baltimore MD’s five municipal layouts have plenty to say about society, community, commitment and pride. They also serve as the backbone of the city’s vibrant public golf scene, providing historic designs, easy access and affordable rates while creating a melting pot for players of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels. If all this sounds too good to be true, there’s a reason: because it nearly wasn’t.
Just about every golf course has a signature hole. But how many have a signature green? With all due respect to the 17th at TPC at Sawgrass, there’s one in the Bluegrass State that might just take the cake… and a few snorts of Kentucky’s finest bourbon for good measure.

It’s been nearly two decades since TeeTime Golf Pass last published Clubhouse Golf Guide. Back then, the annual publications were printed on newsprint and distributed regionally at courses, practice ranges and local golf retail shops. It was our way of highlighting and promoting many of the facilities that participated in our popular passbooks.

Similar to what a lot of newspapers and magazines experienced, Clubhouse Golf Guide — which had been published every year since TeeTime Golf Pass debuted in 1992 — became less of a necessity and more of a burden by the mid-2000s. Folks just weren’t reading print […]

Olde Stonewall is a golf writer’s worst nightmare. Much like a lengthy uphill putt, chances are you’ll come up woefully short in your attempt to describe it with paper and pen. The course really is that damn good.
Featured Courses in this article: Olde Stonewall Golf Course
Many years ago a cynical newspaper editor scolded a wet-behind-the-ears reporter, “Kid, never let a few facts stand in the way of a good story.” I was that rookie sportswriter. But despite what you often read on social media or hear in Washington, DC, the truth does matter. It might just take some digging to find it.
Featured Courses in this article: Washtenaw Golf Club
Pinehurst. Myrtle Beach. Hilton Head. Zanesville, OH? Admittedly, the last one doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue when discussing golf travel destinations. Maybe it should. Because not too far from downtown Columbus a pair of the Buckeye State’s most-awarded layouts have partnered to offer a one-two punch worthy of hometown champion James “Buster” Douglas.
Featured Courses in this article: EagleSticks Golf Club & Virtues Golf Club
A grizzly old Irish caddie or it could’ve been one of my playing buddies after a few beers and a particularly poor tee shot once said that adversity is just another name for the game of golf. Either way, it wouldn’t be much fun to play a layout that didn’t have hazards and design elements that can occasionally cause grief and hardship.
Featured Course in this article: Bull Run Golf Club
The first thing taught in Golf Course Architecture 101 is that land should dictate design. So it’s no surprise that hall-of-famer Hale Irwin, one of the few players in history to win three U.S. Opens and a prodigious student of the game, would follow that rule to a “tee” at Coyote Crossing Golf Club in West Lafayette, IN.
Featured Course in this article: Coyote Crossing Golf Club