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Holey Terror: Hole No. 14 at Great Hope Golf Course
Great Hope Golf Course • Westover, MD • greathopegolf.com • 410-651-5900
Hole No. 14 • Par 5 • 503 Yards
Great Hope combines many of the design elements associated with Old World golf with the rugged honesty that comes when the natural features of the property are carefully preserved. Located a short 45-minute drive from the hustle and bustle of Ocean City in Westover, MD, the course offers a reprieve from crowded tee times and vacation pricing. Best of all, it is simply one of the most beautiful golf […]
Holey Terror: Hole No. 5 at Coyote Crossing
Coyote Crossing • West Lafayette, IN • coyotecrossinggolf.com • 765-497-1061
Hole No. 5 • Par 3 • 217 Yards
The first lesson 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 in West Lafayette, IN. The award-winning layout fits the property like a well-worn glove.
Coyote Crossing epitomizes Irwin’s design philosophy, […]
Your Golf Bud
by Bud Key, Mid-Atlantic Director, TeeTime Golf Pass
전통에 기반을 둔 나무 티
Before my dad passed away, he often advised, “Let’s not put the cart before the horse,” a principle that guided many of our business and family decisions. This came to mind recently as I scrolled through a well-known golf retail website. The site was saturated with drivers, irons, putters, shoes, bags, training aids, and high-tech gadgets—essentially every imaginable piece of golf paraphernalia. Conspicuously absent, however, was the simple wooden golf tee, a humble gadget so common it’s often overlooked.
This is genuinely surprising when you stop […]
Holey Terror: Hole No. 2 at Royal New Kent
Royal New Kent • Providence Forge, VA • royalnewkent.com • 804-966-7023
Hole No. 2 • Par 5 • 605 Yards
Imagine, if you will, plucking up Royal County Down or Ballybunion by their roots and transplanting them — bunkers, dunes and fescue included — to a 282-acre plot of land just 20 or so miles west of Williamsburg, VA. Do that and you’ll have an idea as to what Royal New Kent is like. The course is a testimony to architect Mike Strantz’s vision 30 years ago to […]
Holey Terror: Hole No. 17 at Mill Quarter Plantation
Mill Quarter Plantation • Powhatan, VA • millquarter.com • 804-598-4221
Hole No. 17 • Par 5 • 580 Yards
All too often it’s the new breed of golf courses that attract the lion’s share of the publicity. Admittedly, the attention is well-deserved as many of the layouts that have opened in the past few decades feature some of the most innovative ideas in course design. But for many golfers, a round on one of the traditional layouts drawn by pencil and a straight ruler in the 1960s and ‘70s can be […]
Holey Terror: Hole No. 16 at Olde Stonewall
Olde Stonewall • Ellwood City, PA • oldestonewall.com • 724-752-4653
Hole No. 16 • Par 4 • 474 Yards
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.
Rising from the banks of Connoquenessing Creek about 45 minutes north of Pittsburgh, PA, the 7,100-yard magnum opus designed by world-renowned architects Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry has captured honor upon honor since debuting in 1999, including being ranked the #1 Public […]
Your Golf Bud
by Bud Key, Mid-Atlantic Director, TeeTime Golf Pass
Favorite Club Capable of Amazing Feats
Past cultures paid homage to their deities and the powerful weapons they commanded – think of Zeus’s thunderbolt, Poseidon’s trident, Thor’s hammer, or King Arthur’s Excalibur. In the world of golf, a similar reverence exists for certain storied “armaments.” Clubs like Bobby Jones’s “Calamity Jane” putter, Ben Hogan’s “Equalizer” wedge, and Gary Player’s “Little Slammer” 5-wood are already cemented in the game’s lore. Interestingly, many golfers today – especially bad ones – possess a club they personally regard as worthy of such legendary status.
We […]
Holey Terror: Hole No. 14 at Maumee Bay
Maumee Bay • Oregon, OH • maumeebaylodge.com • 419-836-9009
Hole No. 14 • Par 5 • 525 Yards
Good golf architects can manipulate and manufacture interesting layouts with bulldozers and Bobcats. It’s the great ones who can accomplish the same feat plus so much more by simply allowing a property’s natural attributes chart the course for them. It is this difference – along with utilizing textures and colors, shadowing and framing – that defines the more than 200 courses Arthur Hills built in his illustrious career.
One of Toledo, Ohio’s favorite sons passed […]
Holey Terror: Hole No. 13 at Iron Valley Golf Club
Iron Valley Golf Club • Lebanon, PA • ironvalley.com • 717-279-7409
Hole No. 13 • Par 5 • 588 Yards
Have you ever played a golf course so unique and spectacular that you would pay for the privilege to just walk around it? Welcome to Iron Valley Golf Club, where a Dye-abolical combination of rugged terrain, expansive vistas and extreme elevation changes materialize into a layout literally carved through stone with turf laid on top.
Designed by architect P.B. Dye, Iron Valley straddles the boundaries of Lancaster and […]