In golf construction art and utility meet; both are absolutely vital; one is utterly ruined without the other. GEORGE THOMAS
It’s back!
Twenty years later Tatra Press has kindly allowed me to bring back Grounds For Golf now that golf architecture is of more interest to the masses. A new Introduction looks at what’s driven the interest growth and two new chapters I had a blast adding (plus a few edits to keep things up-to-date).
The Amazon purchase page for the book arriving June 15, 2026.
Captain Watson: "The way it played out at the end with Phil making the comments that probably should have been made in a private room."
/Video: Memorial Honorees Nick Faldo, Doc Giffin
/Tiger And Phil Weigh In On Chambers Bay
/Watson On His Final Open: "It is like a death, the finality of that."
/Video: Chambers Bay Fourth Hole Flyover
/By the looks of this one the course picks up considerable steam in the difficulty department playing 495 yards uphill and with what sounds like a fairway that can get tricky if the ball is running.
Bradley Klein has just posted at Golfweek his thoughts on each hole and he finds more strategy in this one than Gil describes in the flyover. (Thanks reader PG.)
The flyover, with commentary from Sonders and Hanse.

