Member’s Journal

We’re in the thick of March Madness right now so we thought it would be fun to name the Sweet 16 of college golf courses ...

There are 23 clubs in America that still only permit men to join. These clubs are becoming more and more rare, as fewer have opened ...

In past articles, we’ve highlighted the most accessible regions and top publicly accessible courses by famous golf course architects. Now we are moving to the ...

Now that green fees for 2023 are released for many courses there is a lot of chatter about rising prices— and it’s a valid point. ...

There’s always been a spirited debate amongst passionate golfers about which state in the U.S. is best for golf with a bit of bias towards ...

There are a lot of golf resorts in America— over 200 in our database— so this Valentine’s Day, we thought it would be appropriate to ...

At Open Links, we are constantly thinking of ways to pull together information that is informative, useful, and inspiring to passionate golfers around the world. ...

Slowly but surely over time, housing and development has encroached on golf courses. One factor has been the result of natural economic and population growth, ...

The latest version of “The Match” was played a few weeks ago and featured four of the game’s biggest stars: Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy ...

Golf is often thought of as an elitist sport. The perception that it is expensive and exclusive fuels this and to a certain extent, these ...

Background Streamsong Resort is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, but their story starts over 50 years ago when the Mosaic Company started mining phosphate ...

Background High-altitude courses, defined as anything above 4,900 feet or 1,500 meters, allow you to play through beautiful and distinctive settings, such as mountains or ...

Background We’re very excited for the addition of international courses to our golf travel website! In this first release, we’ve added over 600 courses in ...

Background Over the past 25 years, numerous world class courses have been built in remote locations across the United States. Examples include Sand Hills in ...

Over the past decade, I’ve planned dozens of golf trips. Many as part of the Crown Club, a golf society that I co-founded, and others ...

Template holes were popularized by Charles Blair Macdonald, often referred to as the father of American golf course design, in the early 1900s. He identified ...

I was eager to visit Big Cedar Lodge, after the recent additions to it’s golf portfolio and the general positive feedback about the beauty of ...

Last month, I made my fifth journey to one of the great golf resorts on the planet, Bandon Dunes, in southern Oregon. My first trip ...

We are excited to introduce our “Value Series,” where we identify the best bargains across the U.S. golf landscape. The first step is to define ...

Golf Digest came out with its first top course ranking back in the 1960s, and these lists have grown in popularity ever since. We think ...

The Open Links Course Ratings are split into two categories, Course and Experience. The course category is meant to capture aspects of the golf course ...

At Open Links, we try to make it easy for passionate golfers to find courses based on qualities that are important to them. Many of ...

At Open Links, we try to make it easy for passionate golfers to find courses based on attributes that are important to them. We’ve heard ...