As the golf calendar turns to 2026, there’s no shortage of projects capturing the imagination. From new layouts built on ...

In golf, there are two different types of bunkers: sand bunkers and waste bunkers. The Rules of Golf govern what golfers can and cannot do in sand bunkers and waste bunkers, and not knowing the ...

Mt. Hawley Country Club invested $800,000 to renovate its 18-hole golf course, focusing on bunker improvements. The renovation included the Better Billy Bunker System and Pro/Angle Sand, a premium ...

AVONDALE, La. – No other golf course design element can distinguish a good player from a not-so-good one quite like a bunker. It makes sense, then, that Pete Dye included 103 of them in his design of ...

There’s rarely a dull moment when Lee Trevino takes the dais. So it was on Tuesday at Pleasant Valley Country Club, in Little Rock, Ark., where the 85-year-old legend fielded questions from the press ...

Getting into the family business wasn’t something Cynthia Dye McGarey ever planned on doing. Many of her family members had become involved in golf course architecture. Most famously, her uncle is ...

Golf architecture had a big year in 2025. Joe Passov reviews golf's top additions and hands out his annual awards.

After decades of masterfully restoring some of America’s most storied golf courses, Andrew Green is finally getting his chance to create something entirely from scratch. The renowned golf course ...

Changes in historical direction can often be traced to concentrated and connected events that appear to occur suddenly, what historians call inflection points. A popular exhibit at the National ...

Gil Hanse has joined the roster of golf architects for Season 2 of the TGL indoor simulator season. Gil Hanse, one of the most admired figures in the modern era of golf course architecture, built his ...

Ava Bunker’s trophy room just got a whole lot bigger. The Edinburgh resident and former Columbus North golfer added more trophies and medals to her collection. On top of that, Bunker also set a course ...

The Principal’s Nose bunker at National Golf Links on Long Island would never be mistaken for the clown’s mouth hazard at, say, Brookside Mini Golf, in Yonkers, N.Y. But that doesn’t mean that both ...