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Global Golf Post

A Tennessee Titan - Sweetens Cove

Long before the modern-day phenomenon known as Sweetens Cove Golf Club...

Golf Magazine

4 architects discuss course ratings.

What do golf course architects think of course ratings? We asked them | InsideGOLF

Golf Course Architecture

King-Collins adds Trevor Dormer as firm’s third partner

King-Collins adds Trevor Dormer as firm’s third partner

Golf Course Architecture

KCD to design new course for Hobart’s upcoming 7 Mile Beach layout

Clarence City Council has granted approval to former tour pro Mat Goggin...

Forbes

Crossroads: Golf’s Newest 9-Hole Course Is Versatile And Reversible

The first new golf course in South Carolina's Lowcountry in almost two decades...

Golf Course Architecture

Bold vision unveiled for new club in the Carolina Sandhills

King-Collins has been hired to design a new golf course on a dramatic site...

Golf.com

King-Collins building Nashville course on ‘remote’ site minutes from downtown

Bounty Club's site serves up Nashville skyline views.

Golf.com

Why this rural 9-hole course was my favorite I played in 2022

Why this rural 9-hole course was my favorite I played in 2022

Golfweek

Sweetens Cove's GM Matt Adamski talking over drone footage will make your day

There’s not much to say about Sweetens Cove Golf Club that hasn’t already been said...

Golf Digest

Landmand is golf’s hottest new course

You don’t show up to a gunfight with a knife...

Golf.com

What it’s like playing a course you helped build

(Hint: exhilarating)

Links Magazine

LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 101: Rob Collins

Rob joins Links Magazine's podcast.

Golf Pass

20 Brand-new Golf Courses Opening in 2022

From Utah to Iraq, exciting original designs by architecture's biggest names are set to debut.

Golf Course Trades

What if this Golf Course is the Epicenter of Change?

Planting the Seed: I’d Never Seen Golf Courses Like This Before

The Wall Street Journal

This Isn’t Your Dad’s Old Golf Course

Inness, a new Hudson Valley resort, responds with a cooler kind of country club...

Mississippi Today

A new public golf course at Jackson’s old Colonial CC?

That’s the plan.

Golf.com

Dirt Diaries

What it’s like embedding with a golf-course design crew (hint: intimidating)

Jim Hartsell

A Geological Oddity

Landmand Golf Course, the next King-Collins masterpiece, in the Loess Hills of Eastern Nebraska

Golf.com

Why one big-name golf course architect is fiercely tackling a very short, very old muni

Rob Collins is contemplating leftovers.

Golf.com

Field Guide

Sweetens Cove Golf Club is as good as advertised

Esquire

Peyton Manning's New Bourbon Is So Legit...

I Can’t Even Call It a ‘Celebrity Bourbon’

The Fried Egg

Landmand GC

Landmand GC – How it started.

Links Magazine

Landmand Golf Club

A New King-Collins Design

Lying Four

Rob Collins and the Long Road Out of Hell

On Sept. 15, 2008, the world ended...

Links Magazine

Q&A with Sweetens Cove Architect

Rob Collins answers questions with Links Magazine

Erik Anders Lang

Erik Anders Lang

Old Versus New At The Best Little Nine That Could

Golf.com

Next Best Thing

Rob Collins, a fresh face in course design

The Fried Egg

Golf Course Architecture 101

Strategy discussions with Rob Collins

No Laying Up

Unquenchable Thirst

A First-Timer's Journey to Sweetens Cove

GolfWRX

You’ve never played anything like Sweetens Cove

It’s the most enjoyable golf experience I’ve had in years.

Golfers Journal

TGJ Podcast: Episode 2

Travis Hill on Sweetens Cove

Golf Digest

Always Time For Nine: Sweetens Cove Golf Course

If you're like me, slightly attention-deficit and unable to focus for a full 18-holes...

Golfweek

Sweetens Cove Overcomes Obstacles to Make an Auspicious Debut

In 2016, Sweetens Cove claimed the #1 ranking in Tennessee on Golfweek's “Best Courses You Can Play” list for the first time

To The Nines

To The Nines

Anthony Pioppi compares Sweetens Cove to the original version of Augusta National

Golf Magazine

At the Crossroads at Palmetto Bluff, options are delightfully endless

When you play the Crossroads at Palmetto Bluff in the South Carolina Lowcountry, you’ll have some questions to answer.

The Fried Egg

The Sweetens Cove Story With Architect Rob Collins

Digging Into Design | Presented by Johnnie-O

Golfweek

Check out fresh photos of the new Crossroads in South Carolina

One of the more interesting golf course openings of 2024 has been Crossroads at the private Palmetto Bluff...

No Laying Up

GHIN and Tonic: Vol. 1 (TC)

For the debut of our new series "GHIN and Tonic," TC sounds off...

Sports Illustrated

This Nebraska Course Sold Out Its 2024 Tee Times in Three Hours

It's called Landmand, if you haven't heard of it, it's worth a look (but you'll have to wait until 2025.)

Hudson Valley

Inness Is a Must-Play Golf Course in the Hudson Valley

Inness pairs entertainment with relaxation at its resort, members club, and nine-hole golf course in Accord.

Golf Digest

America's Best New Courses

Landmand is today’s bass drum of public golf, hitting the market with an echoing boom.

No Laying Up

NLU Film Room: Landmand Golf Club

Tron and Rob Collins, Architect of famed Sweetens Cove, break down Rob's newest course...

TalkinGolfHistory

TGH 91: Landmand: Building the Legend

Rob joins Talkin Golf History

Jim Hartsell

A Return to the Loess Hills of Nebraska

Jim Hartsell writes about Landmand.

Sports Illustrated

A Look at Golf’s New Crop of Course Developers

A handful of enterprising, thirty- and forty-something self-starters...

Golf.com

Why Peyton Manning is making cold calls about this 9-hole golf course.

“Hello, this is Peyton Manning.”

Golf Channel

Rob Collins chats with Golf Today

Sweetens Cove 'built an army' to reach cult status

Lubbock Lights

Lubbock Lights | Red Feather Golf & Social Club

Brad Ralston’s building Red Feather Golf & Social Club in south Lubbock.

GolfDigest

What does the future of golf look like?

These nine influential voices are helping bring it into focus

The Confidential Guide to Golf

The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses

Sweetens Cove featured in “The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, v. 2”

Links Magazine

5 Myths About Golf Course Design

Golf course architects are the artists

Links Magazine

5 Public U.S. Courses I HAVE to Play in 2021

In this December 2020 article, 5 Public U.S. Courses I HAVE to Play in 2021, Sweetens Cove Golf Club is featured as one of the best public golf courses to play in 2021.

Garden & Gun

G&G Shoot-Out at Sweetens Cove

Garden & Gun’s inaugural golf tournament followed by a lively bourbon celebration

Golfweek

Sweetens Cove stands up to the Hype

Even on a course-record-setting, 254-hole day

Golfweek

Why you should root for Peyton Manning

(and that other guy) in The Match II in two words: Sweetens Cove

Golf.com

The Sweetens Cove sequel

Rob Collins and Tad King unveil brand-new New York nine-holer

Golf Pass

New golf course advisory

Landmand Golf Club in Nebraska to be designed by King-Collins Golf

The Brunswick News

The Miracle at Sea Palms

Sea Palms New Management to Focus on Local Memberships

GolfWRX

Peyton Manning, Andy Roddick, all-star team enter partnership with Sweetens Cove

If you’ve been living under a rock...

Paired Up Golf

Paired Up with Rob Collins, Part Two

Why So Spiritual?

Paired Up Golf

Paired Up with Rob Collins, Part One

Connecting the Dots

G&E Magazine


Can You Dig It?

A Story of Sweetens Cove and Golf's New Age

Golfweek

Golf Life

Sweetens Cove team foresees a breakthrough

Jim Hartsell

The Secret Home of Golf

Sweetens Cove Golf Club

New York Times

The Little Golf Course That Could

This is the 2017 NYT Article that cemented Sweetens Cove into the golf world's consciousness.

Links Magazine

Graylyn goes to Chattanooga

Sweetens Cove featured in Links Magazine

Golfweek

#1 ranking in Tennessee on Golfweek's “Best Courses You Can Play”

Martin Kaufmann writes about the unlikely ascendancy of Sweetens Cove to the top of Golfweek's Tennessee rankings.

Bestball

Landmand - Vast, Bold, & Unforgettable

Stories from The Cooler Vol. 2

The Fried Egg

Trevor Dormer on Joining King-Collins Golf Course Design

Fried Egg Golf sits down with Trevor Dormer.

Wisco Golf Addict

Landmand: King/Collins’ Triumph in the Loess Hills

From the beautiful setting to its enthralling golf experience, Landmand Golf Club was everything I hoped it would be.

Yahoo Sports

Luxury golf course backed by Justin Timberlake coming to Nashville

A luxury golf course backed by Tennessee native and superstar Justin Timberlake is set to open...

Golf.com

The Sweetens Cove architects have a new course in Texas...

...and it’s a ton of fun

Golfweek

Golfweek's Best 2023: Top 200 Modern Courses in the U.S.

Here’s one course of particular note this year. Landmand Golf Club in Homer, Nebraska...

Sports Illustrated

Awards for Best Renovations, Restorations and New Golf Courses From 2022

Dishing Out Awards for Best Renovations, Restorations and New Golf Courses From 2022

Feed. The. Ball.

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 24, ft. Rob Collins

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 24, ft. Rob Collins

Wisco Golf Addict

Landmand: A New American Links Classic of Epic Proportions

By now, many have heard about & seen the impressive images from the recently opened Landmand GC in the Loess Hills of Homer, Nebraska.

Golfweek

"Put the Pedal Down and Go For It"

King-Collins' Landmand Golf Club opens in Nebraska

Links Magazine

First Peek: Landmand Golf Club

"A big, bold piece of farmland is the perfect canvas for this dynamic duo’s first 18-hole design."

Golf.com

Does Sweetens Cove live up to the hype?

GOLF senior writer Michael Bamberger investigates

Back Nine Press

The Secret Home of Golf

How a rural, nine-hole golf course became one of the most important designs of the past 20 years.

The New York Times

Bare Feet, Beer and Heavy Metal Bangers: Golf Chills Out and Gets Cool

Traditional golf is increasingly seen as old and stuck in its ways. But...

Lying Four

Episode 002: A Walk in the Park

Rob Collins joins Lying Four

Golf.com

Dirt Diaries

What it’s like embedding with a golf-course design crew (hint: intimidating)

Lying Four

In Nebraska, Landmand Is King Collins' Next Very Big Thing

Lying Four talks Landmand.

Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab Challengers Series

King Collins featured in the Charles Schwab Video Series

Golf.com

The 50 best 9-hole courses in the world, ranked!

Sweetens Cove is one of the hottest courses in the world right now...

No Laying Up

NLU Podcast Episode 315 - King Collins

Rob Collins from King Collins Golf Course design joins us again...

GolfWRX

King-Collins Golf adds 18-hole design to portfolio

Landmand GC

Nebraska Golf Association

Made by a Farmer

It's impossible to tell the story of Nebraska without discussing its long history of farming

Golf.com

What’s the deal with Sweetens Cove?

9 observations from an average golfer’s first trip

Erik Anders Lang

Ep 138: Sweetens Cove

Rob Collins and Nash Pater talk Sweetens with EAL.

Lying Four

A Spiritual Morning
in an Unlikely Place

Sweetens Cove Golf Club

Lying Four

Conversations

Rob Collins discusses Sweetens Cove with Lying Four

G&E Magazine

King Collins Golf Course Design

Rob Collins/Sweetens Cove - A Story of Perseverance

Jim Hartsell

A Course to Last a Lifetime

Golf in the Kingdom of South Pittsburg, TN.

Golf Course Industry

Sweet & Simple

A nine-hole rural Tennessee course built during the recession...

Golfweek

Golfweek's Best

Tiny titans Sweetens Cove, Sewanee pace Volunteer State

Golfweek

Golfweek's Best: Top 100 Modern Courses in USA

Sweetens Cove makes the list.

The Fried Egg

Unforgettable: Sweetens Cove

An in-depth profile of the King-Collins designed Sweetens Cove Golf Club

To The Nines

Comparing Sweetens Cove to the original version of Augusta National

Sweetens Cove…harkens back to one of the most influential golf courses ever built...

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