Take 5: Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Asher Wildman catches up with the designer of Chambers Bay, the site of this year's U.S. Amateur and the 2015 U.S. Open.

Guilt-Free Golf

When chambers bay hosts the U.S. Amateur from Aug. 23 to 29, the former mining quarry overlooking Puget Sound — and site of the 2015 U.S. Open — will become the most prominent tool the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) has for teaching the public how to make golf more sustainable.

Hickory Stick Golf Course unveiled by Senecas

Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder Sr. showed little concern Monday morning about the state's latest plan to start collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian retailers.

Snyder was much more focused on getting out to play on the 257 acres of green grass, wooded land and ponds that stretched out before him at the Seneca Hickory Stick Golf Course on Creek Road.

RUGGIERO: A preview of Hickory Stick golf course

This past week, I had the pleasure to meet with three top executives of the soon-to-be-opened Seneca Hickory Stick Golf Club located on Creek Road in Lewiston.

Traveling golfer 'blown away' at Chambers Bay

From the second you step out of the clubhouse, you get that feeling. There are adequate grounds for golf, there are great grounds for golf, and then there are a few immortal grounds for golf; the kind of courses worthy of hosting two of the game's oldest and most challenging championships.

Seneca Hickory Stick Golf Club to open

A $20 million golf course which is opening in western New York in late June is expected to receive rave reviews and attract golfers from Canada and various American states.

A look inside Pebble Beach

Originally and incorrectly, the golf course at Pebble Beach was dubbed a links, a reference to the classic old courses that follow the thin strand of low, sandy dunes along the Scottish seashore.

Wood seen as great chance in Portugal

The European Tour heads back to Continental Europe this week for the Estoril Open de Portugal at the Robert Trent Jones Penha Longa Golf Club in the hills about 45 minutes west of Lisbon and only 15 minutes or so from the Atlantic Ocean.

After renovation, Kauai's Makai Golf Club ready for inclusion among Hawaii's best

It took 16 months, but the Makai Golf Club at the St. Regis Resort Princeville on Kauai is back and better than ever.

Is Brown the New Green?

When Jim Hyler was inaugurated as president of the U.S. Golf Association in February, he surprised many by speaking out more forcibly than USGA presidents are wont to do on a controversial subject: water usage and the misguided perception that golf courses need to be lush, green and perfect to be good. It is the issue, he said, "that is perhaps of greatest concern to golf's future."

Golf course designer checks on progress

The designer of a new golf course in Niagara County stopped in Friday morning to see how crews are moving along.

Prince Course at Princeville resort is a one-of-a-kind golf challenge on Kauai

The designer of a new golf course in Niagara County stopped in Friday morning to see how crews are moving along.

Market your course designer

I found an interesting business item in Terry McAndrew's Web Street Golf Daily Pulse mailer this morning. It comes courtesy of The Golf Research Group, a U.S.-based golf information provider acting as an autonomous industry-wide independent.

Orchards Golf Club to host Michigan Open Golf Championships in 2011 and 2012

The 2011 and 2012 Michigan Open Golf Championships will be held at The Orchards Golf Club in Macomb County's Washington Township.

Three Crowns' Remediation Done Just Right

Wyoming is America's least populated state, and the city of Casper, with 54,000 residents, is one of its benchmark towns. Casper was built on the back of the energy business - especially oil and natural gas, and the city's past, present and future are directly linked to this vital industry.
Given that fact, it's appropriate that Casper's newest and best golf course was built on the site of one of the region's largest and longest-operating oil refineries.

Bahia Beach named International Course Finalist in Golf Inc's Development of the Year Award

"Vision" is the quality that judges weigh most heavily in their evaluation of the many deserving entries in our annual Development of the the Year contest.

Best New Courses of 2009

The Golf Club at Rainmakers, a Robert Trent Jones, Jr. design, ranks in the top 10 among GolfDigest's list of Best New Private courses.