By Mason Savage Recently on a trip to Southern California I got to play Rustic Canyon. Rustic Canyon is a golf course that opened in 2002 and was designed by Gil Hanse with consultation from Geoff Shackleford. This duo worked together to construct what I think might be one of the best public golf courses in the Los Angeles area. I do not want to fall victim to recentency bias but this course was truly special! There are three 3 things that I want to highlight about this Golf

By Mason Savage We are coming up on 6 years since I created a Golf Course Ranking system that takes into account a variety of categories. The categories are Culture, Place, Quality, Price, Architecture and Value. My goal with creating this ranking system was to be able to systematically and numerically define the best golf course. If you want to read about how the ranking works in more depth you can check it out here . In conjunction with the creation of this ranking, I ranke

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By Mason Savage Craig's Porch: The center of Sand Valley Golf Course. One characteristic of a great golf course is how often you are able to replay it. There are Courses that become dull, uninspiring or mechanical the more you play them. The uniqueness and scenic beauty that you once thought were special, now feel hollow. Every shot on a golf course like that becomes repetitive. On the contrary, there are golf courses that can be highly replayable. Instead of becoming dull, t