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Bandon Dunes

A column I wrote on Bandon Dunes…. quite an amazing experience. NORTH BEND, OREGON – Ten hours by car from Vancouver, set along the Pacific Coast, sits *Bandon* *Dunes*, the world’s hottest – and...

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Pacific Dunes

So what makes Pacific Dunes so great and so hyped? Well, part of it is that the course is a throw back to another era, when land, not bulldozers, dictated how a links would play. A great example is the...

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The 17th at Sawgrass

Well, it is that time of year again, when amateur golfers sit in front of their TV sets and pray that some of the biggest stars will dunk a ball in the water when they reach the 17th at Pete Dye’s...

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Guest Column: Is Pebble too much?

Note: I recently had a discussion with my good friend and regular golfing companion, Steve Waxman, about why he avoided playing Pebble Beach on a recent trip to Cali. He explained it to me and I asked...

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The hype for Bandon Trails builds….first round of the year…to Pine Valley I...

The buzz around Bandon Trails , the third course at the amazing Bandon Dunes resort near Bandon, Oregon, is being heard louder and louder every day. While the course, a design by Bill Coore and Ben...

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The Hype for Bandon Trails continues

Look up in the air! It is a bird. No, it is a plane. No, it is Bandon Trails, the most hyped golf course in the world. This time T&L Golf has done a bang up job on Bandon Trails, the new Bill...

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Tom Fazio’s Wynn Golf Club

There’s an interesting story in a magazine called Fairways and Greens about Tom Fazio’s new Las Vegas design called “Wynn Golf Club,” after the ego-maniac who developed the course and funded the...

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Pinehurst: The best and the toughest

Two stories with my byline appeared in a special US Open supplement today. Here’s the first: The best – and toughest National Post Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Byline: Robert Thompson Source: National Post...

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Fourth at Bandon Dunes Opens: Old Macdonald Scheduled for June Launch

In celebration of Old Macdonald’s opening at Bandon Dunes in a couple of weeks, I’m running a story I wrote on the course that appeared in last year’s National Post Think Golf magazine. Interesting to...

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U.S. Open Week: Pebble Beach Overview

Here’s a repeat performance from a blog I wrote last year on playing Pebble Beach — one thing I’ve thought about a lot since last March is the cost. I’d bet that after playing Pebble Beach, no one is...

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Course Review: Streamsong Resort (Polk County, Florida)

    Course Review: Streamsong (Polk County, Florida) Designers: Red – Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; Blue – Tom Doak Opens: December, 2012 Overview: First there was Bandon Dunes. Then there was Bandon...

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Course Review: Los Angeles Country Club

Course Review: Los Angeles Country Club North Course (Los Angeles, Calif.) Designers: Herbert Fowler, George Thomas, William Bell   Overview: Every so often a restoration of a course will breathe new...

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Streamsong, Tom Doak and the Renaissance Cup

I’d never met Tom Doak — at least until last week. Sure I’d spoken to him on the phone, gone back and forth by email, and even received a signed copy of the Confidential Guide to Golf Courses in the...

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Hawaiian Time: Pacific Links’ Canadian connection

Rarely does head on a 12 hour flight to meet a group of Canadians, but that’s what I’ve been up to this past week. I’ve been in Kapolei, Hawaii, invited by Pacific Links to attend their Champions Tour...

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Course Review: Riviera Country Club

Course Review: Riviera Country Club Designer: George Thomas Jim Furyk once told me that he hated everything about Los Angeles. He disliked the city and wasn’t fond of the traffic. But he came to play...

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Course Review: Monterey Peninsula (Shore Course)

Cypress in the distance: The picturesque 11th hole with Cypress Point in the background Course Review: Monterey Peninsula (Shore Course) Architect: Mike Strantz The story of Monterey Peninsula’s Shore...

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Course Review: Creek Club (Long Island, NY)

You can see Connecticut from here -- on the 13th tee at Creek Club in Long Island. Course Review: Creek Club Designer: CB Macdonald I recognize that somehow I’ve managed to make it to Long Island two...

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Fourth at Bandon Dunes Opens: Old Macdonald Scheduled for June Launch

In celebration of Old Macdonald’s opening at Bandon Dunes in a couple of weeks, I’m running a story I wrote on the course that appeared in last year’s National Post Think Golf magazine. Interesting to...

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U.S. Open Week: Pebble Beach Overview

Short but mighty: The 107-yard one-shot seventh hole at Pebble Beach Here’s a repeat performance from a blog I wrote last year on playing Pebble Beach — one thing I’ve thought about a lot since last...

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Gone Golfing … at Fishers Island

I’ve been in NY for a couple of days, doing a great tour that has so far included Knollwood, Quaker Ridge, Yale and today at Fishers Island. Yale has been the real surprise of the trip — a remarkable...

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