The question about what truly makes a links course has long divided golfers. For many, it represents the game in its purest ...

Gearhart Golf Links in Oregon, which opened way back in 1892, is loaded with short par-4s, quirk and the perfect amount of charm. The post In Gearhart, an old-school, lovable links course awaits ...

National Open Championships in the British Isles are synonymous with links golf. By the same token, links golf is intrinsically linked with the five countries that make up the United Kingdom and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Founding member of Break80 Golf. The Ayrshire region of western Scotland is home to some of the most venerable golf courses in the ...

Rory McIlroy is one of only six male goflers to win the career Grand Slam, and his sole British Open victory was at Royal Liverpool. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/R&A/R&A via Getty Images) Since the ...

A couple of months ago, a colleague asked if I wanted to follow up a feature idea with Sam Cooper who, some of you may remember from his social media channels, spent well over a year playing every ...

Thanks to the vision and creativity from Scottish architect David McLay Kidd, a new private club near Austin, Texas, brings the feeling of golf’s homeland to the Lone Star State. There’s nothing like ...

The Open Championship is being played outside Great Britain for only the third time in the event’s 153-year history. On each occasion – in 1951, 2019 and now 2025 – the venue beyond conventional ...

SANDWICH, England – Steve Stricker can appreciate better than most how the British Open is unlike any other major. One day after winning the John Deere Classic with a birdie-birdie finish on the green ...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – It’s been said that Whistling Straits is the third consecutive links-style golf course to host a men’s major championship. At least that’s what one questioner keeps declaring in his ...

HOBART, Australia — Australian pro Mat Goggin was 13 years old in the late 1980s, enjoying his first year of playing golf, when his grandfather insisted he head to 7 Mile Beach in Hobart, Tasmania, to ...