LISTEN TO ARTICLE 5:29 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Tweet Post Email Photographer: Dave Merrill/Bloomberg It was in the first week of May when I, deep in the grip of self-isolation, finally stole away late in the day for an emergency nine at the golf club near my home in Granville, Ohio. The course fits right in with the Victorian quaintness of our little village: Its front nine, a Donald Ross design commissioned to accompany the construction of the Granville Inn in 1924, is a compact, enjoyable...

Palmer, Nicklaus, Player, and Trevino join forces to create the Greenbrier’s newest course. High on a mountaintop in West Virginia last October, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Lee Trevino gathered with golden-hued shovels in hand. The golf legends had come at the behest of Jim Justice, owner of the Greenbrier resort, for a ground-breaking ceremony that was, well, groundbreaking. In an unprecedented collaboration, the four championship golfers are building what Justice hopes...

Three new courses from top architects signal a return to form for U.S. golf. Great golf courses are once again being built in the United States. Following a precipitous post-2008 drop in new development—and a legitimate but overhyped decline in golf participation—the top American architects are returning to their home turf, designing some of the most beautiful and challenging courses we’ve seen stateside in years. —James A. Frank When in Rome From Mike Keiser, the man behind Oregon’s...

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea With no disrespect to the Big Island, Maui is the best place for golf in Hawaii—and one of the best anywhere. Something about the island’s emerald coastal courses makes for memorable moments (if sometimes forgettable scores). Now there’s a golf outing on Maui that, true to its billing, is guaranteed to lodge permanently among your most pleasant recollections: the Unforgettable Golf Adventure from the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. The literally...

We slipped through the silver gates of the fence, turning sideways to slide our hips past the rails, ignoring a sign that warned against trespassing. The bright fall day made the hop farm shine green, the plants standing tall, tethered to poles by swooping coconut twine. Golf-course architect Tom Doak was taking me on a tour of what had been High Pointe Golf Club—his first design—just outside Traverse City, Michigan, a project he began at twenty-five years old. The course took three years to...