By Mason Savage The Best Par 3 Golf Course is up for debate. There is great golf courses such as the Sandbox at Sand Valley, there is Shorties at Bandon Dunes, Bandon Preserve at Bandon Dunes, The Hay at Pebble Beach, The Cradle at Pinehurst and even the Augusta National Par 3 Course. However, one of the best Par 3 courses is right in Minnesota. The Gravel Pit in Brainerd, Minnesota is a Par 3 Courses that features some of the most unique golf holes in the world. To learn mor

By Mason Savage 9 Hole Golf Courses are often overlooked by the golfing community. Some people think that if a course does not have 18 holes then it is not a legitimate golf course. That however is not true! Eagle Springs Golf Course in Eagle Wisconsin (just outside of Milwaukee Wisconsin) is one of the oldest golf courses in Wisconsin and it features some of the coolest golf holes I have ever seen. It is one of the great golf courses in the state of Wisconsin. To learn more

By Mason Savage Fox Hollow Golf Course is one of the best Public Golf Courses in the State of Minnesota. This Joel Goldstrand design makes great use of some awesome land and features some great golf course architecture. Tom Coyne in his book called A Course Called America called Fox Hollow one of his secret treasures. A Golf Course that he thinks is underrated and that more people shluld know about. To see why and learn more about Fox Hollow Golf Course, check out my YouTube

By Mason Savage Los Angeles is one of the great American cities and it features some of the best golf courses in the world. Courses like Los Angeles Country Club, Bel Air Country Club, Riviera Country Club and Wilshire Country Club are some of the best in the world but they are private courses. With that said, it does not mean that the public golf in Los Angeles is bad, you just need to look a little harder to find it. Courses like Rancho Park and Rustic Canyon are great but

By Seth Kirkeide My first loop around Highland National was four years ago one evening in early April. I had never seen the place but had heard adequate reviews, and was excited to take on a new course. I failed to look at the forecast prior to making the drive over, and to my surprise it started snowing as I was rolling a few on the practice green. I considered leaving, before begrudgingly heading off to the first tee because I’m a sicko who needed to feed an addiction that

By Mason Savage Recently on a trip to Southern California I got to play Rustic Canyon. Rustic Canyon is a golf course that opened in 2002 and was designed by Gil Hanse with consultation from Geoff Shackleford. This duo worked together to construct what I think might be one of the best public golf courses in the Los Angeles area. I do not want to fall victim to recentency bias but this course was truly special! There are three 3 things that I want to highlight about this Golf

By Mason Savage We are coming up on 6 years since I created a Golf Course Ranking system that takes into account a variety of categories. The categories are Culture, Place, Quality, Price, Architecture and Value. My goal with creating this ranking system was to be able to systematically and numerically define the best golf course. If you want to read about how the ranking works in more depth you can check it out here . In conjunction with the creation of this ranking, I ranke