Destination GOLF

Out on Tour, it's WM Phoenix Open week! To honor one of the most fun events on the golf calendar, we're bringing you videos highlighting public golf in the Arizona desert.

Night golf at Grass Clippings and the competitive Grass League, the Monday skins game at Papago, and bachelor parties at Troon North are all on display in "Destination GOLF: Phoenix" which is out now on YouTube. You'll also hear from Charles ...

Seth McWhorter is the man behind some of the best new golf club logos, featuring work at The Tree Farm, Sweetens Cove, and Pinehurst Resort. He's also responsible for our Destination GOLF logos! In this interview with Josh Sens, he dives into what makes a great golf club logo, plus some of the challenges and processes in creating them. Seth dishes on what makes the icons of the industry stand out, and in some cases, says they b...

The biggest financial, technological, and societal story of 2025 surrounded advancements in artificial intelligence. These AI engines require massive supporting infrastructure projects, and in several cases now, developers are hunting golf courses as sites for future AI data centers.

GOLF.com Executive Editor Alan Bastable has done extensive reporting on munis and public courses in Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia that are all...

Happy new year, golf travelers! In our final episode of 2025, Simon Holt and Josh Sens go into detail on each of the greatest courses in the world. From Scottish links to the California coast, and Australia's Sandbelt to Nebraska's Sand Hills, take a deep dive inside the experiences and architecture at the definitive best of the best golf courses on the planet. Both in the U.S. and abroad, there are a number of these world-...

What's life like for an up-and-coming golf course designer working to make a name for himself? Jay Blasi, who's done some outstanding public and private work in California, walks through a life in the industry. Jay worked on Chambers Bay ahead of it hosting the U.S. Open, and has most recently transformed a clunky routing at Poppy Ridge, a beloved Bay Area public facility, into a walking golfer's paradise. In this inter...

This quarter of GOLF's World Top 100 list are some of the most hotly contested courses out there. Some get votes as high as top 10, and others are left fully out of the best 150. In the end, the votes all average out to end up in this incredibly prestigious bucket.

Scotland's Prestwick hosted the first ever Open Championship, and has inspired holes around the world for a century.

Kawana in Japan is home to a course that we s...

After a career built on restoring classic template holes in the U.S., renowned modern architect Gil Hanse now gets to work on a handful of the originals at North Berwick.

Longtime North Berwick member, and the leader of GOLF's Top 100 panelists, Simon Holt, sits down with Hanse to discuss his design philosophy, his career working on some of the greatest courses in the world, his original work, and his relationship with his partn...

These are the courses that really deserve the most conversation, according to Top 100 panelists Simon Holt and Josh Sens.

Cabot Cliffs & Links, Bandon Trails & Dunes, and the lesser known courses at Royal Melbourne and Winged Foot are just some of the headliners from the first quarter of our World Top 100 course breakdowns.

Simon and Josh run through them all, plus give their reactions to the feedback you've given us so f...

The newest ranking of GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World is out now! Simon Holt, who leads the panel, and longtime course rater and GOLF Magazine editor Josh Sens go through all the headlines.

Which new courses entered the Top 100? And which courses made meteoric rises? Plus, for our 40th anniversary of the list, we'll take a special stats-driven look back at how trends impact the rankings today.

To view the full li...

Razor thin margins decide whether a deserving course earns a spot in GOLF's Top 100 Courses in the World.

Ahead of our latest 2025-2026 World list release, we take you behind the curtain for the very first time, revealing every course that just missed out between spots 101 and 150.

Simon Holt, who collates the votes, and longtime course rater Josh Sens walk through the process and give their thoughts on all fifty courses in this ...

Groupthink, bias, and gatekeeping are accusations often levied at a list of the best golf courses in the world.

But how much of that is true?

Simon Holt, the engine behind GOLF's Top 100 Courses in the World, and longtime GOLF Magazine travel editor Josh Sens have an honest conversation about how these human factors come into play in our own rankings.

Plus, we'll get into the nitty gritty on architecture, setting, and what ou...

Immerse yourself in some of the world's elite golf clubs, known for amenities far beyond their great golf courses. If you don't happen to have the millions in initiation fees, you might not get access without knowing someone. What's it like inside the gates of Tara Iti, Haesley, Ardfin, and more? Simon Holt and Josh Sens dive deep to bring you these experiences, and at the end of the episode, tell you where in the world...

Near San Francisco, an Alister MacKenzie gem serves up glistening views of the California coast. And no, we're not talking about Cypress Point.

Sharp Park is the only publicly-owned seaside MacKenzie course in the U.S., making its very existence special. It's one of the incredibly popular Bay Area munis, despite its less than perfect condition.

In this episode, Josh Sens interviews Richard Harris of San Francisco Public Golf ...

What makes the linksland of Kent, England so special? Three world class courses: Royal St. George's, Royal Cinque Ports, and Prince's line the coast. But they also share a unique moment in history, when Walter Hagen created his own routing of the three tracks after he was denied access to the clubhouse.

John and Alex, the creators of the golf apparel brand Holderness & Bourne, played in this special event newly open to t...