Destinations
Pebble Beach at Dawn
Before the gallery ropes go up and the starter calls your name, there are those miraculous grey-light hours when the 18th hole belongs entirely to the sea.
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The Trumping of Turnberry — Scotland's Greatest Links Reborn
Top 10 Courses of 2025 — The World's Definitive Rankings
In The Bag — Equipment That Changed the Game This Year
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Great Destinations
The Trumping
The Trumping
of Turnberry
How Scotland's legendary Ailsa Course reclaimed its place among the world's great links
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Editor's Selection
Courses
The New Kings of Links Golf
A generation of designers is reshaping what links architecture can mean.
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Gear
Equipment That Changed the Game in 2025
From forgiveness technology to raw feel — the kit worth knowing about.
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Great Destinations
"There are courses you play, and courses that play you. Turnberry does both simultaneously."
Rankings
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Top Courses · 2025
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Royal County Down
Newcastle, Northern Ireland
Majestic natural links in the shadow of the Mountains of Mourne — the most beautifully situated course on earth.
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Pine Valley
Pine Valley, New Jersey
The most demanding examination in golf, set in a pine forest that punishes imprecision with absolute severity.
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Cypress Point
Pebble Beach, California
Alister MacKenzie's masterpiece, where three consecutive ocean holes represent the pinnacle of golf course design.
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St Andrews Old Course
St Andrews, Scotland
Six centuries of continuous play. The Swilcan Bridge. The Road Hole. Golf's great cathedral.
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Augusta National
Augusta, Georgia
Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie's vision of perfection — a parkland cathedral that hosts the sport's most revered tradition.
Equipment
All Reviews
In the Bag
TaylorMade
Qi35 Driver
Drivers$599
A quantum leap in forgiveness. The carbon crown reduces weight where it matters, pushing the CG impossibly low.
Titleist
Pro V1x
Golf Balls$54 / dozen
The benchmark against which all others are measured. Consistent, penetrating flight and exceptional short game feel.
Scotty Cameron
Phantom X 5.5
Putters$449
Mallet precision with blade soul. The milled insert provides a sound and roll that inspires immediate confidence.
From the Vault
When Watson Conquered Turnberry
The summer of 1977 produced what many still call the greatest final round in major championship history. Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, separated from the field by the width of a fairway, played golf of such sustained brilliance over the final 36 holes that the scoreboard seemed almost irrelevant.
Watson's 65-66 over the last two days — finishing at 268, twelve under par — remains among the finest sustained performances in Open Championship history. What made it remarkable was not merely the score, but the company in which it was achieved.
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