4 courses
Ireland's Links Courses That Tourists Miss
Ireland
Everyone plays Ballybunion and Lahinch. These five courses are just as spectacular and half as crowded.
Destinations
City-based trip planning guides with multi-course itineraries
Ireland
Scotland
4 courses
Playing Scotland's Links Without Selling Your Kidneys
Scotland
St. Andrews costs £300. These courses are just as good and cost £50. Your complete guide to affordable Scottish golf.
United States
130 courses
Long Island: Where American Golf Architecture Was Born (and the LIE Goes to Die)
New York, United States
Bethpage Black, Shinnecock Hills, and 130 courses on a glacial moraine. How to navigate the traffic, the booking wars, and the $97 salads to play where it all started.
10 courses
The Monterey Peninsula: California's Essential Golf Trip
California, United States
Pebble Beach anchors the dream, but Spyglass, Poppy Hills, and Pacific Grove complete it. How to build a week on California's greatest golf peninsula.
8 courses
Bandon Dunes: The Pilgrimage That Rewrote American Golf
Oregon, United States
Five world-class courses on Oregon's wild coast, a visionary's gamble, and a lottery that changed everything. How to plan the ultimate links pilgrimage.
Pinehurst: Where American Golf Grew Up
North Carolina, United States
Nine courses. Three you need to play. One that defined American golf architecture. How Donald Ross built America's golf soul in the North Carolina sandhills.