Nine Golf Courses We Can’t Wait To Play in 2020 (Bloomberg) — Golf architecture, to use today’s jargon, is in its 2.0 phase. Fewer courses are being built than during the boom of the 2000s, but what we are getting now are leaner, cleaner, and, at least environmentally speaking, greener experiences. Today’s designs have more in […]
Welcome to the Beacon’s Best 2020 Awards! These awards celebrate and recognize the best our community has to offer. Nominations will be accepted between January 5 and January 19, 2020! Nominate Us for Best Golf Course Ellsworth Meadows Golf Club, considered by many to be one of the finest public courses in Ohio, is a […]
The 21 (yes, 21!) most painful rules incidents of 2019 Between Phil Mickelson hitting a ball in motion, Joel Dahmen calling out the motivation of Sung Kang and Tiger Woods’ non-double hit at the Hero World Challenge, 2018 was a banner year for rules controversies. Surely, with the new, simplified Rules of Golf, 2019 had […]
The full list of where you could see Tiger Woods play golf in 2020 In the aftermath of the U.S. Presidents Cup victory on Sunday, a reporter asked Tiger Woods — with tongue firmly planted in cheek — if he would mind going over his 2020 schedule through the Masters. After a moment of consternation, Woods broke […]
Christmas has yet to arrive, but Griffin Hayden has already received an unforgettable gift. Big brother Bailey gave him a kidney. The Hayden brothers had surgery on Dec. 18 and are now recovering from the three-hour procedure at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “He’s hoping to be home before Christmas,” said Denison head coach […]
The 11 toughest tee times in the world to get The courses featured on our ranking of the world’s best are always challenging and often beautiful, but some of them will never be accused of being welcoming, even to the paying members. These are our picks for the most elusive tee times in the the world. Cypress […]
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Why do Japanese golf courses have two greens on every hole? During Monday’s Japan Skins, the high-powered foursome of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama and Jason Day were presented with a challenge at the fourth hole: Play to the left green or the right green — dealer’s choice. Woods took aim at the right green but misfired, hitting a […]
OUR FAVORITE GOLF DOGS WHO RULE THE COURSES NEAR YOU Golf has a history with dogs that dates to the origins of the game in Scotland. In the United States, we’ve been a little slower to adapt dogs into our golf culture, at least as we play the game. Superintendents and golf professionals, though, have […]
Golf For Beginners: So You Want To Play Golf We get it. Golf can seem terribly complicated to the uninitiated. So many rules, so many different kinds of clubs. That’s where this online beginner’s guide comes in. To those who know nothing about golf, our goal is to shepherd you through this uncertainty. What kind […]
