Circling Raven Earns Idaho’s Top Spot in Golfweek Magazine Best Courses You Can Play by State in 2019

Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel's acclaimed championship course  Circling Raven Golf Club has garnered Idaho's No. 1 ranking in "Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play by State in 2019. 

 

Owned and operated by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Circling Raven is designed by Gene Batessprawls, and runs expansively across 620 acres of gorgeous Palouse Region topography (part of the Tribe's ancient ancestral homelands in the Idaho Panhandle).  It is one of many highly regarded amenities of the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel. 

Giants Ridge The Quarry Named No. 1 in Minnesota on Golfweek Best State Courses You Can Play List

The Quarry at Giants Ridge golf resort received top billing in Golfweek's "Best State Courses You Can Play" rankings for the fifth consecutive year. 

 

Solidifying its position as the best public course in the Gopher State, The Quarry is built on the site of a former sand quarry and iron ore mine.  Dramatically raised tees and hazards forged from reclaimed and repurposed mine land set this Jeff Brauer design apart from other courses and provide dramatic Iron Range vistas. 

Myrtle Beach Comes Up Big in Golfweek Magazine's Rankings of South Carolina Best Public Courses to Play

Golfweek has unveiled its annual list of the "Best Courses You Can Play" in each state, and Myrtle Beach again made waves in the ranking of South Carolina's best public courses. 

 

Nine of the Palmetto State's top 15 public layouts were located along the Grand Strand, according Golfweek, highlighting the depth and quality of the area's offerings. 

Four Courses at Reynolds Lake Oconee Namedto Best Courses You Can Play in State

Reynolds Lake Oconee is in elite company as one of only three destination golf communities in the United States with four courses named to its state list of "Best Courses You Can Play"in Golfweek magazine's annual "Ultimate Guide" that recognizes the most prestigious venues in the game. 

 

Reynolds Lake Oconee's "Fab Four" on the "Best Courses You Can Play" list in Georgia include No.2 Great Waters, No. 4 Oconee, No. 8 National, and No. 10 The Landing.  The only other golf clubs with four or more courses on the list include Bandon Dunes in Oregon and Kohler in Wisconsin. 

Three Branson Area Courses Earn Top Spots in Golfweek's ‘Best Courses You Can Play by State

Buffalo Ridge Springs (No. 1), Branson Hills (No. 2), and LedgeStone (No. 6) were all named to Golfweek Magazine's annual "best in state" list of best golf course.  

 

While Buffalo Ridge Springs (an amenity of Big Cedar Lodge) earned a spot on the publication's "Top Courses You Can Play in America" list, ranking at No. 89. 

Bayside Resort Golf Club Breaks Ground on New Clubhouse

Bayside Resort Golf Club, a semi-private club in Selbyville, Del., recently broke ground on a new 23,000 square-foot clubhouse, with completion expected in 2020. 

 

The new larger building will replace Bayside Resort Golf Club's current 7,500 square-foot clubhouse and feature a new golf shop, Signatures restaurant and bar, a golf simulator, event and banquet spaces, and more. 

Jack and Barbara Nicklaus, Gary Player, Fred Ridley and Actress Jane Seymour to Introduce Inductees at World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Golf legends and luminaries including Jack and Barbara Nicklaus, Gary Player, Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley and actress Jane Seymour will introduce Inductees Dennis Walters, Retief Goosen, Billy Payne, and Jan Stephenson into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday, June 10th.   The late Peggy Kirk Bell will be introduced with a special tribute video featuring her family. 

 

The Inductees selected each presenter for the Induction Ceremony, which begins at 7:30 pm EDT at the Sunset Center in Carmel By The Sea, Calif., kicking off the U.S. Open Championship.  A record number of Hall of Fame members are expected to attend the ceremony, including the Selection Commission Co-Chairs Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam. 

The 2019 Memorial Tournament: Inside the Course (Muirfield Village Golf Club Review)

This week the PGA Tour returns to Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio for the 44th playing of the Memorial Tournament.  Muirfield always attracts the strongest collections of marquee names, and everything about the tournament is prestigious.  It's name gives a nod to the game's origins, where the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers composed golf's original 13 rules. 

 

Muirfield's design draws inspiration from Augusta National and Bobby Jones.  And with Jack Nicklaus as course designer and tournament host, the Golden Bear's stamp is seen everywhere.  The joke around here is that Muirfield is Jack's "other wife," and he even gave Barbara a necklace with the inscription "to my other gal" when the tournament was founded 43 years ago. 

5 Things to Know about the 2019 Memorial Tournament

One of the strongest fields of the year lands in Dublin, Ohio this week for The Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club.  Muirfield opened in 1974 as a 6,969-yard track, and evolved into its current 7,392-yard, par-72 length with a series of nips, tucks, and wholesale redesigns. 

 

Of the 400-plus courses designed by Jack Nicklaus worldwide, Muirfield is considered his seminal masterpiece. Muirfield is a second-shot golf course with ample room off the tee.  However, the difficulty of each hole increases as you approach the greens, which are strategically bunkered and feature putting surfaces that are among the quickest and most undulating on the PGA Tour. 

Forest Dunes, Both Directions of The Loop Ranked Among America's 100 Greatest Public Courses

The Loop at Forest Dunes, the innovative reversible layout designed by Tom Doak, continues to garner the highest accolades from the golf industry.  In an unprecedented achievement, both golf course routings, Red and Black, have been ranked among Golf Digest's list of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses.  The panel ranked the Black No. 45 and the Red No. 47. 

 

Not to be outdone by the boutique Northern Michigan resort's newer addition, the original and immaculately-conditioned Tom-Weiskopf designed Forest Dunes course is ranked No. 28 on the list, putting all three Forest Dunes Golf Club layouts in Golf Digest's top 50.  Forest Dunes joins Pebble Beach, Streamsong, Bandon Dunes, and Kohler as the only resort properties with three courses distinguished among the nation's Top 50. 

Bay Harbor, Heather at Boyne Highlands Layouts Ranked Among America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses

Boyne Golf is one of the largest and most-lauded golf resort companies in the U.S., and two of its acclaimed resort golf courses have been ranked on Golf Digest’s 2019 - 2020 list of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses.  The Heather at Boyne Highlands Resort joins the distinguished roster for the first time, while the 18-hole Links/Quarry pairing at Bay Harbor Golf Club has been a staple on the list since 2003. 

 

Golf Digest's biennial review of America's top public courses uses nearly 1,000 low-handicap male and female golfers on its Course Ranking Panel, and asked each to submit ballots based on eight criteria including shot options, challenge, layout variety, distinctiveness, aesthetics, conditioning, character, and fun. 

Arcis Golf Embarks on Renovation of Tour Course at Weston Hills Country Club

Arcis Golf has begun renovation of the Tour Course at Weston Hills Country Club, one of the private club's two 18-hole Robert Trent Jones, Jr. designs, and one time home of the PGA Tour's Honda Classic.  The Players Course will remain open for play throughout the project. 

 

The Tour Course is undergoing a complete bunkering renovation, installation of Celebration Bermudagrass on all fairways, and building a new short-game area.  The multimillion-dollar project is being directed by award-winning Fry-Straka Global Golf Course Design, and is scheduled to be complete this fall. 

The Club at New Seabury Completes Renovations on the Dunes Course: Reshaped Features Enhance Playability and Experience

The Club at New Seabury has completed renovations to The Dunes Course as part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar Club investment, all in an effort to better position the course as a classically designed layout and improve the playability and enjoyment for all golfers. 

 

The course opened Memorial Day weekend with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, May 24th,with President and Executive Director Chris Card providing the welcome and opening remarks. 

Darrell Survey Shows 97 Percent of PGA Tour Players Use Bushnell Laser Rangefinders

The Darrell Survey Company, the golf industry's leading independent and impartial arbiter of equipment use, is reporting that 97-percent of the 2019 Wells Fargo Championship field used a Bushnell laser rangefinder to obtain accurate yardages. 

 

Surveying 156 players during the Wells Fargo Championship, 151 of those players named Bushnell as their preferred distance measuring device. 

Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk (Narrated By Bill Murray) Debuts in U.S. Movie Theaters June 7th

Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk is the most thorough feature-length film documentary ever developed on golf's historic caddie profession, and will make its nationwide theatrical debut on June 7th at more than 75 locations across the United States. 

 

The film, narrated by actor and former caddie Bill Murray, has drawn critical acclaim in early 2019 with positive reviews and best documentary awards from the Cleveland International Film Festival in early April and the Newport Beach (CA) Film Festival in early May.  The film continues on the film festival circuit through the first week of June, with the Greenwich, CT, International Film Festival on June 2nd. 

Bettinardi Signs Veteran PGA Tour Player Jason Kokrak

Bettinardi Golf announced that PGA Tour veteran Jason Kokrak will join their rapidly growing Tour staff.  Kokrak will play his custom Tour Department DASS (Double-Aged Stainless Steel) BB8 Triplane putter with patented F.I.T. Face Milling. 

 

Since Kokrak put his Bettinardi putter in play at the Honda Classic this season, he has not missed a cut and climbed from 109th to 65th in the Official World Golf Rankings.  Kokrak has also moved up 30 spots in Strokes Gained: Putting. 

Golf Pride Wins Grip Counts and Wanamaker Trophy at Bethpage Black

Golf Pride was the leading swing and putter grip brand in play at 2019 PGA Championship, with 125 players (80-percent) in the field trusting Golf Pride grips. 

 

Eleven players who finished in the Top 10 and ties, including the champion Brooks Koepka, chose Golf Pride at Bethpage State Park's Black course.  Koepka trusted Golf Pride's Tour Velvet Cord grips en route to capturing his 4th career major. 

PING Golf G410 LST Driver Preview: Movable Weight Technology in a Low Spin Head

PING Golf has expanded their G410 driver family with the G410 LST, a high-MOI driver engineered to produce low, stable, spin with the shot-shaping control provided by the company's innovative movable-weight technology. 

 

The multi-material driver is made of a cast Ti 8-1-1 body, forged T9S+ face, high-density tungsten back weight, and lightweight aluminum/thermoplastic adjustable hosel.  It can be ordered and custom fit at authorized PING golf shops around the world. 

PING Golf Blueprint Forged Blade Irons Preview: Tour Inspired for the Elite Player

Focusing on the needs of highly skilled golfers who rely on pinpoint accuracy, PING Golf has released their new Blueprint forged blade irons.  They're shaped and sized to deliver the workability and confidence required to play with score-lowering precision. 

 

The irons are one-piece, four-step multi-stage forgings, made from 8620 carbon steel with tungsten toe and heel weights.  They can be ordered and custom fit at authorized PING golf shops around the world. 

Brooks Koepka WITB What's In The Bag - The Golf Equipment Koepka Used to Win the 2019 PGA Championship

Brooks Koepka buried the field for the first three rounds at the PGA Championship, then hung on Sunday at Bethpage Black to earn his fourth career major championship victory.  Koepka became the first player in history to successfully defend both the PGA Championship and U.S. Open. 

 

Koepka set a record for the lowest 36-hole score in major history (128) over the first two rounds of play.  He also set the record for the largest 54-hole lead in PGA Championship history (seven strokes).  And in tough conditions Sunday, Koepka did just enough to hit some clutch fight off Dustin Johnson, and finish 8-under par for a two-stroke win.