No matter where you looked in the Coachella Valley in the last five years, there were golf courses undergoing construction projects. New green complexes, new bunkers and especially new irrigation ...

The two city-owned golf courses at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert opened in 1997, and like most courses of that age, they needed some tender loving care. “Twenty-eight years of desert ...

It’s peak golf season in Arizona, with tee sheets packed, prices maxed and putting surfaces in prime condition. But you’d barely know the difference at Snakehole Golf Club, just east of Phoenix, where ...

Winter golfers shouldn’t be course-condition critics, but we are. For golfers living in north climates and squeezing in January or February rounds, you might be playing on temporary greens—often cut ...

Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer, but for golfers in cooler climates, it also signals that our courses are finally starting to wake up. Yet on courses I play in the Northeast, the same ...

In 1998, the story goes that Tom Furlong looked across his farmland near Hastings, considered the crop prices, and thought maybe he’d rather mow greens and fairways than plow cornfields. Twenty-five ...

A ‘dramatic' overhaul promises to breathe new life into The River Club, a venerable Garden City golf course.

The River Club will be celebrating its 110th birthday with a makeover. The Garden City golf course will be closed this summer as it undergoes an extensive 18-month redesign, member Mark Johnson told ...