Jeffrey Prest's GolfBuzz Blog

Cheap Golf's Finest Holes: 6th hole at The Legends Golf & Country Resort, Malaysia

Jeffrey Prest — 12/02/2008 02:51:49

Jeff Barr’s ‘1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die’ plumps for The Legends’ 18th as its finest hole, with just a passing mention for the par five 6th but I’m going to reverse the selection here… [continued]

Cheap Golf's Finest Holes: 10th hole at Circling Raven, Idaho

Jeffrey Prest — 11/29/2008 07:15:23

A cluster of pine trees blocking the ideal line off the tee define your choices on this Gene Bates design….[continued]

Not so sour on Sweetgrass GC after all

Jeffrey Prest — 08/04/2008 18:13:10

I owe architect Paul Albanese an apology. When I started reading his philosophy behind his new Sweetgrass Golf Club in Michigan, I had genuine doubts as to whether I’d finish it… [continued]

Beauty and the Beast - Couples takes a rise out of 'resort golf'

Jeffrey Prest — 07/23/2008 18:46:28

They say dog owners often end up resembling their dogs but it seems you can’t say the same about golf course designers and their courses… (continued)

The wait goes on for Ross's Rackham golf course

Jeffrey Prest — 07/15/2008 01:47:02

Seems like those sweating on the fate of Detroit’s Rackham Golf Course – a Donald Ross design – will have to sweat a little longer (continued)

Pound Ridge GC opens Saturday

Jeffrey Prest — 07/03/2008 01:53:12

It’s strange to think that Pound Ridge Golf Club is Pete Dye’s first project in New York state (continued)

Golf course ratings - 'rank' is the word

Jeffrey Prest — 06/26/2008 15:37:55

In theory, it should be the nature of this blog that I give a stuff about golf course rankings. In reality, I don’t… (continued)

Torrey Pines - good as any; better than most...

Jeffrey Prest — 06/12/2008 05:53:49

For spectators at least, the carping over this year’s US Open venue is neither here nor there… (continued)

Play PGA Tour courses on the cheap

Jeffrey Prest — 05/16/2008 16:49:12

Stepping onto Tour courses doesn’t have to mean slipping into the red… (continued)

You never forget how a great course drains...

Jeffrey Prest — 05/02/2008 04:31:52

We live in an age where the image industry leaves no stone unturned in its bid to find a new edge on which a product or organisation can build its reputation.
Am I right to wonder, though, if the people behind Rooster Run GC are getting ever so slightly desperate…(continued)

The Dogwood stage is a' rollin' on over the plains...

Jeffrey Prest — 04/27/2008 07:36:17

There’s a nice looking municipal in town, now that Dogwood Trace GC is open for business in Petersburg, Virginia (continued)

Are these really golf people?

Jeffrey Prest — 04/24/2008 17:44:01

Regular readers will know that golf course websites that leave you more or less to guess at what the course is like, aren’t exactly flavour of the month with this blog.
At Rancho Canada Golf Club, however, they really are taking the mickey…(continued)

"There'll be no diversity outreach goin' on in OUR locker room, Mr Mayor..."

Jeffrey Prest — 04/20/2008 16:24:07

It was while examining golf options in San Francisco that I came across the question mark currently hanging over municipal courses in the city by the bay…[continued]

Great Afterlife Punch-ups - Castro v Donald Ross

Jeffrey Prest — 04/12/2008 15:00:31

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, “to lose one Donald Ross golf course may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two is a disgrace…” [continued]

How to play the Old Course

Jeffrey Prest — 03/06/2008 04:02:50

Alas, I’ve just blown the last of my Christmas money on a digital radio, otherwise I might just have gone after this promising little tome...

Bunkers: the new breasts

Jeffrey Prest — 03/04/2008 08:13:17

Not much in the way of pictures so far but most of what I see of Nick Faldo’s new design at Angkor Golf Resort, I like. Apart from the 13th…(continued)

Bitter-sweet day on The Golf Course as Art

Jeffrey Prest — 02/27/2008 04:32:03

Mixed feelings as I scour today’s golf course news feeds for material…(continued)

Not all classic UK courses are by the sea

Jeffrey Prest — 02/24/2008 07:41:05

One positive spin-off already from reading ‘The Spirit of St Andrews’: I’m waking up to what’s on my own doorstep.

At last, Els puts heat on Tiger

Jeffrey Prest — 02/19/2008 17:58:38

Enjoy this, it doesn’t come round too often.
Tiger Woods playing catch-up

Golf bookstore finally on course

Jeffrey Prest — 02/09/2008 04:31:08

After an increasingly bizarre selection of titles cropped up in my supposedly ‘themed’ Amazon sidebar on my Blogspot site these last few weeks, I have decided to change tack and open my own virtual bookstore, in which supermodels, stock trading and bonefishing will hopefully be notable by their absence…