If you haven't read Part 1 of this piece, the following might not make a lot of sense to you. The first criterion on which I will use to judge a golf course are the aesthetics. It's pretty simple: if a course has mountains, marsh lands, oceans, or so… more »

When I first began playing a lot of golf my freshman year of college I was always eager to play a new course, especially one that had received a high rating in one of the premier golf publications. I took every chance I had to play these "great courses",… more »

It is impossible to watch coverage of The Players Championship without being drowned by discussion of the infamous 17th hole: we see what every player does on the hole; we hear about the hole even when the cameras are elsewhere; and I'd bet one of my fin… more »

I had a day of golf on Saturday that reminded me again why I love the game so much. We were in Norfolk, Virginia for a wedding, and the father of the bride set up a scramble on Saturday morning at Sewells Point Golf Club. The leading group went off at 7:… more »

The money spent on golf advertising today is at an all-time high, and it is not going down anytime in the foreseeable future. What I often wonder is how the executives at certain companies can decide that some of these advertising campaigns are actually… more »

I have recently come to the conclusion that course rankings are basically useless, because the factor that carries the most weight is without a doubt the architect's last name. Give Golf Digest or Golf Magazine a new course designed by Dye, Fazio, or Nic… more »