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 ...

We take a look at the legacy of Tom Williamson, one of the Midlands' less well-known but prolific course designers ...

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 ...

Most golfers believe course architects spend their time at drafting boards devising elaborate strategies and vexing ways to thwart a good score. Certainly, that’s an important part of the job, the fun ...

Legendary golf course architect Pete Dye, whose designs have played host to dozens of USGA championships, died on Jan. 9 in Gulf Stream, Fla., 12 days after turning 94. His death comes 11 months after ...

Pete Dye, one of golf’s most well-known architects, died Thursday, according to a statement put out by his family. He was 94. Dye designed numerous golf courses during a career that began in 1959 ...

For the course architect Tom Doak, holes and fairways are only two pieces of a puzzle that includes topography, infrastructure and much more. By Michael Croley See more of our coverage in your search ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Kramer covers golf and luxury technology. Fun fact: As a golf course ages, its greens and bunkers tend to shrink ...

In 2019, while speaking to the American Society of Golf Course Architects at their annual meeting, I remarked, “OK, I get that folks love Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and their courses. Who doesn’t ...

With the arrival of each new Top 100 ranking, the world’s premier course architects peek to see where their work stands — even as they’re skeptical about this business of calling something “the best.” ...