Two layouts by Donald Ross seem to beckon repeat play – a residue of his design vocabulary. Today’s example is The Sagamore, in Bolton’s Landing, New York.   Though of the same vintage as Mountain Ridge , The Sagamore’s location at the base of the Adirondacks means much more Full Story

• Ross Courses Define Quotidian Quality
  
  It may seem borderline sadomasochistic to deconstruct the cliché – “a
• Turning Stone’s Golf Is No Gamble
  Hurricane Irene was famously capricious in her march through the Northeast, with towns in Vermont and the Catskills was
• Mickelson Is Half Right About PGA Championship Set-Up
  

  No need to deconstruct Phil Mickelson’s motives for criticizing the Atlanta Athle

Tour operators and Irish tourism operatives were united in their reaction to our golf itinerary: “Get some help,” was the consensus. We’d sledge-hammered together a daunting combination of copious golf, travel, and work requirements. Throw in the blown-out hip tendon that befell colleague Peter Kessler Full Story

• Ireland – Nation Of Foodies?
  

   

  Not just yet. But the first time this reporter wrote about dining opt
• Less Is More, Even For Guinness
  At first we weren’t sure whether John Farren was telling the truth or just winding us up with a bit o’ blarney. The
• Blazer Proves Travel Talisman
  "So," she inquires, faintly leaking sarcasm, "were you planning to take the blue blazer?" At this point, the questio

Think what you will about Hank Williams Jr.’s disparaging remarks about the Obama-Boehner pairing and ESPN’s reaction to those remarks, Hank at the very least displayed a gross lack of understanding of golf. I’m only half-joking. The underlying assumption of his, er, critique is that playing 18 hole Full Story

• Ireland – Nation Of Foodies?
  

   

  Not just yet. But the first time this reporter wrote about dining opt
• Asia Not Golf’s Panacea
  A year ago this month, I walked the about-to-open Danang Golf Club, near the eponymous city on Vietnam’s Central Coas
• Delta Pops For One
  Last week, this column noted the escalating rapacity of the airlines in piling on fees, at least some of which seem pre