GOLF’s Top 100 course panelists are among the most respected and well-traveled course evaluators in the game. They’re also keen to share their opinions. In this GOLF.com series, we’ll unlock their ...

A cadre of design critics claims that golf course architecture slipped into a dark place from 1945 to 1975, emerging only when Pete Dye began to hit his stride. Others extend the time period another ...

Tiger Woods' first personally-designed golf course opened last week opened to much fanfare last week but did you know the 38-year-old Woods started designing golf courses when he was in grade school?

In a mid-life career pivot, without millions in the bank or long years in the field, Mike Koprowski bought land and a built a ...

The first amateur golf design competition was likely held in 1914 when Country Life Magazine asked readers to submit suggestions for a theoretical hole. Actual architect C.B. Macdonald, one of the ...

Beau Welling first met Pete Dye in a swampy area of Kiawah Island, S.C. The World Golf Hall of Fame architect yelled at him. Welling said there might have been some choice language involved. That ...

In the common telling, golf-course design has moved from being punishing to player-friendly. Forget forced carries and narrow, tree-pinched targets - architects now favor width and ground-game options ...

The fairways, greens and bunkers of the upcoming private Kawonu Golf Club are beginning to take form. Construction on the exclusive site in Simpsonville, South Carolina, was showcased for the first ...

These leading course architects discuss how they'd rethink a course like TPC Sawgrass if they could build a course designed to host a major tournament ...