Notebook: A bourbon with my bag, please
+ Orca Golf and Stewart Golf unveil divergent looking bags — both being good; PXG’s awesomely named putter; Poppy Ridge opens a new-look course.
GTW Staff
May 21, 2025
+ Orca Golf and Stewart Golf unveil divergent looking bags — both being good; PXG’s awesomely named putter; Poppy Ridge opens a new-look course.
The 7-year-old national society is for players who have USGA recognized single-digit handicaps. Founded by 1996 U.S. Amateur runner-up Steve Scott, the society is about competition, but also paying homage to the game’s rich history and its many classic courses.
Planning to attend the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte? Then it’s worth going out of your way to play a pure delight up the road.
If the Texas course were a bar, then it would be described as a dive. Because of the country singer’s influence on the tract, it’s a must play whenever in the Austin area.
Course architect Beau Welling’s recent work on the 1972 Pete Dye design at Omni Amelia Island Resort tightens a bond that dates back to Welling’s teenage years.
Once an exclusive family-owned course in secluded eastern Illinois, it’s now under the ownership of Escalante Golf. Plans now call for the top-100 course to be open to Icon Golf’s national membership.
Having successfully opened Tom Doak’s No. 10 design in 2024, Pinehurst Resort is turning to Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw to create No. 11 — scheduled to open in 2027 Both courses are on the site of an old sand mine that has aptly been dubbed Pinehurst Sandmines.
Since ShipSticks’ inception in 2011, the company has turned delivering golf bags to their proper locations into an art form. And the company’s goal is only growing.
Golfing, casinos, restaurants, bars, lounges and spas. If you’re thinking Las Vegas, think again – you’ll find all these things and more in Mississippi.
Course architect Kris Spence is a noted historian of Donald Ross’ work. So, in restoring the Florida municipal course that opened in 1927, Spence leaned heavily on the golden age architect’s original intent.