You can win a tee time on the 'reversed' Old Course at St Andrews next year by shooting the lowest gross score over the ...

An author and former writer for Golf Magazine and Yahoo Sports (among others), Arkush in the fall of 2021 came up with the ...

In 1870, Old Tom Morris introduced the existing 1st green by splitting it from the 17th, which formed the anti-clockwise routing that is in play today. Neil Coulson, chief executive of the trust ...

A new book, The Golf 100, aims to rank the best men's and women's golfers throughout history. The book's author explains the ...

That changed in the 1860s, though, after then-greenskeeper Old Tom Morris separated the first and 17th greens, a tweak that gave rise to the routing golfers recognize today. For decades after ...

Once the numbers were tabulated, he shuffled the deck by employing subjective criteria such as a golfer's impact or ...

In the 1860s, Old Tom Morris, who served as the Keeper of the Greens at the time, separated the 17th green from the first green creating the current counterclockwise routing we know today.

The rest of the reason is history. Playing the Old Course backwards isn’t just a novelty. It’s how it was played up until Old Tom Morris updated the course in the early 1870s. Back then, the first tee ...

Not yet, anyway. In this book, I set out to rank the top 100 golfers of all time, men and women, going all the way back to Old Tom Morris and his son, Young Tom, in the 1860s and ’70s.