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

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