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Announcing our newest event ➡️ @kiawahresort

From April 18–22, 2027, enjoy three rounds of golf, including play on The Ocean Course, site of the 1991 Ryder Cup as well as the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships and future host of the 2031 PGA Championship; accommodations at The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island; and a welcome dinner and closing dinner.

Kiawah has been our most-requested site over the years, and we are thrilled to finally make it happen.

📸: Kiawah Island Golf Resort / Patrick O’Brien

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William Flynn—who designed Shinnecock Hills, site of this year’s @usopengolf—has never gotten the respect of other Golden Age architects. He deserves better.

@joepassov on Flynn’s underrated genius: https://t.co/e5s22a12GA

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Some golf courses leave you shaking your head and muttering, “Man, how good is this place?” Indeed, the spectacular amphitheaters and vistas at Turnberry will leave you stunned in spots, and acknowledging that yes, the Ailsa Course, host to four Open Championships, does well to live up to its high praise.

Particularly grand is the stretch from holes 6–10, as you begin to stride along the cliffs over the Firth of Clyde while peering out at the colossal inverted saucer in the sea, Ailsa Craig, where the granite for the majority of the world’s curling stones is sourced. The culmination point is the par-three 9th, its green situated over a bay next to the iconic Turnberry Lighthouse built atop the castle that was the birthplace of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots from 1306–29 and namesake of Turnberry’s other 18-holer.

For history chasers, the majestic Culzean Castle is fittingly right up the road. And while the lunch at Turnberry’s clubhouse is quite good, locals know that nearby Wilding’s is the place to go for a three-course post round meal.

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As century-old Bel-Air Country Club hosts the @CurtisCup this week, competitors and architecture fans will get a good glimpse at the work of George Thomas, who wows with one of history’s most ingenious routings.

More on this California classic: https://t.co/7ox2G9PPL0

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One of America’s most exclusive restaurants is welcoming guests for a seasonal dining experience at @TheHomeofGolf.

Rao’s has opened its first-ever residency outside the U.S. set at the bottom of the Rusacks St. Andrews on the edge of the 18th fairway of the Old Course. Rao’s at Rusacks offers up a curated menu that pairs their iconic dishes with the finest Scottish ingredients, with the restaurant’s characteristic decor adorning the walls including vintage autographed photos and year-round garland and holiday lights. Located in the facility formerly occupied by the One Under Bar, Rao’s at Rusacks will be open until October 10, 2026, lasting through the @dunhilllinks at the Old Course. Dinner is served nightly from 6-10:30pm.

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Featured by @LinksMagazine as one of the Caribbean’s most compelling emerging golf destinations, Jack’s Bay is home to the Tiger Woods-designed Playground Course and the world’s first Jack Nicklaus Heritage™ Course.

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As this California wine country resort continues to evolve, Tour-quality golf is just one of its many allures.

5 Reasons to Love @SilveradoResort: https://t.co/J9DnyuQNPA

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Staying at the Marine Troon means you’re having afternoon tea and sticky toffee pudding an approach shot away from the iconic clubhouse of @RoyalTroonGC—a proper links test if there ever was one.

Some championship courses assert themselves right away, with an onslaught of holes that break the will of mortals before their swing wakes up. A mere 10 times host to @TheOpen, the Old Course at Royal Troon plays the long game, asking you to withstand a series of jabs and body blows in six-hole stretches known as Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, with the knockout inward nine considered the most demanding of any course on the Open rota. (Unless you’re 2024 Champion Golfer of the Year @XSchauffele, who took only 31 swings on the back side to seal his second major of the year.)

After filing down the coast from 1–6, the walk from holes 7–11 is spellbinding. Good luck keeping focused on the task at hand at the 7th, with one of the course’s best tee box views and the Postage Stamp lording over the fairway; hit the shot or pay the consequences at the 8th; regain composure bending quickly for a potentially blind approach at 9; climb the fairway to the “Sandhills” green at 10; and swing true on the tee at 11, hoping your first shot misses the railway or gorse and your second shot isn’t actually your third.

Trust that you RSVP’d as a “Yes” to the post-round lunch in the Troon clubhouse—a can’t miss end to a can’t miss day on Scotland’s west coast.

Words and photos by @al_lunsford

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Given the alluring settings for golf—playing along coastal waterways, littoral marshland, maritime forests, and more—and accessibility to some of the country’s largest markets, it’s high time @OCMaryland got its due.

A long golf weekend in Ocean City: https://t.co/JyUNPgJTD1

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Western Gailes in a word: mesmerizing.

This was our first loop, a few hours removed from a leather airline seat. The feeling went far beyond the course, a riveting counterclockwise layout pinched between the railway and sea.

The subtle entry sign and narrow road to the respectable red roofed clubhouse. The passenger trains zipping past, perhaps too close for comfort if you left your ball out right on the closing stretch. Horses galloping on the beach in a long-setting sun during a disorienting hour; surely we could have squeezed in another 9 starting at 9pm. The signature rumples, burns, and pot bunkers that define a Scottish links.

@Western_Gailes was on the charm offensive, and I was smitten from the start.

Our Digital Editor @al_lunsford just returned from his first golf trip to Scotland—stay tuned for more from each round of the journey.

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The co-hosts of the LINKS Golf Podcast go head-to-toe answering 20 “This or That?” questions about their preferences related to various golf apparel items.

presented by @FootJoy

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Great Waters at @reynoldsgolf • Few courses so successfully fuse beauty, challenge, and playability as this 1992 effort that hugs the shoreline of Lake Oconee for nearly the entire back nine. Tall pines frame most of the holes, but the essence of the course centers on superior risk/reward tests such as the par-four 9th, par-four 11th, and par-five 18th, each which challenges the mind and delights the eye with lakeside peril. Following a successful refurbishment in 2019 by Jack Nicklaus and his associate Chad Goetz, Great Waters is greater than ever.

📸: @Evan_Schiller

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@FootJoy @blueteesgolf @swiftwick @TRUElinkswear @Nomaticgear @badbirdiegolf @MileseeyOutdoor @DrinkTanks @ArccosGolf @prgrgolfusa @SunMountainGolf @BigMaxGolf @Titleist @CallawayGolf @PingTour @labgolfputters @TheMasters

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Whether he plays top amateur events, on weekends with his pals, or just whenever it strikes his fancy, you can’t go wrong by giving the old man a golf gift for Father’s Day.

20 golf gifts to consider: https://t.co/RGuTFsBy6i

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From a distance, visitors to @Haylinggolfclub might think they’re arriving at Royal Birkdale as the club’s whitewashed clubhouse bears more than a passing resemblance to that of the 2026 Open Championship venue. Beyond its walls, golfers will find a rumpled links whose first nine holes were found in 1893 by Joe Lloyd, winner of the 1897 U.S. Open. Tom Dunn was also involved. More land was leased to the west shortly after, and Harry Colt, J.H. Taylor, and Tom Simpson all contributed to the resulting 18. Simpson returned following World War II to repair and lengthen what is one of the few links on the south coast.

📸: @kevinmurraygolf

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These five noteworthy golf resorts have fitness centers so well equipped, you’ll be packing your gym gear immediately after packing your clubs.

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