alister mackenzie: Search Results: Golf Digest

Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

Citing a desire to see both habitat restoration and affordable public golf at Sharp Park golf course, San Francisco mayor Edwin Lee on Monday vetoed legislation that would have transferred the supervision of the...

Tuesday, 12/20/2011 at 9:38AM

Posted by Alex Myers

keywords:: alister mackenzie,; bill fields,; edwin lee,; san francisco,; sharp park

Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

For scores of folks in and around San Francisco, a man named Ed Lee is now the most important golfer in the world. Lee is the mayor of San Francisco, said to play the...

Wednesday, 12/14/2011 at 11:19AM

Posted by Alex Myers

keywords:: alister mackenzie,; bill fields,; ed lee,; ken venturi,; san francisco

Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

A preliminary injunction sought by opponents of Sharp Park golf course in Pacifica, Calif., to stop pumping and mowing on half of the 1932 Alister Mackenzie layout -- measures that would have effectively shut...

Wednesday, 11/30/2011 at 10:12AM

Posted by Alex Myers

keywords:: California,; Sharp Park Golf Course,; alister mackenzie,; bill fields,; pacifica

Magazines / Editors' Blog

We got several letters about the Presidents Cup, some with questions, some with suggestions, and some with corrections. Let's start there:One California reader (and Cypress Point archivist) writes to correct a statement by Gary Koch...

Monday, 11/21/2011 at 5:14PM

Posted by Bob Carney

keywords:: Alister MacKenzie,; Augusta National Golf Club,; Cypress Point,; Gary Koch,; Presidents Cup

Golf Courses & Golf Travel / Where's Matty G?

Let's back up for a second. As I've sampled public golf in this country, I've established some benchmarks for value. I measure courses I play against this rough scale of overall experience and price. Some...

Thursday, 4/7/2011 at 10:42AM

Posted by Matt Ginella

keywords:: Alister Mackenzie,; Bethpage Black,; Brackenridge,; Coronado,; Golf Digest

Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, Calif., an Alister Mackenzie design that is regarded among the best public courses in the U.S., has started employing 200 goats to clear brush in the otherwise largely inaccessible...

Thursday, 10/7/2010 at 3:50PM

Posted by John Strege

keywords:: Alister MacKenzie,; Pasatiempo Golf Club

Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

Since 1987, members of the Alister MacKenzie Society have been meeting annually at a different course designed by the great architect. This year's festivities are being held at Crystal Downs Country Club in Frankfort, Michigan,...

Wednesday, 9/9/2009 at 8:18PM

Posted by Sam Weinman

keywords:: alister mackenzie,; augusta national,; crystal downs,; cypress point,; pasatiempo

Golf Tours & News

What's best for Sharp Park, a dandy Pacifica, Calif., muny designed by Alister Mackenzie? Conservation advocates, pro-golf locals have very different answers

By Geoff Shackelford

keywords:: golf world,; golf,; courses,; sharp park,; alister mackenzie

Golf Tours & News

Tom Doak's 'wild' start. Gene Sarazen's take on Alister MacKenzie. The Seminole not designed by Donald Ross. Our intrepid architecture editor reveals the backstories

By Ron Whitten