Appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of LINKS.

DURiNG THE WARM MONTHS, most days you’ll find Ed Ervasti at the London Hunt Club—on the golf course, the range, or comfortably ensconced in a leather club chair—holding court. Trim and fit at the tender age of 98, stories cascade from the native Minnesotan, who has spent much of his adult life in this city in southwestern Ontario.

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This article appeared in the Winter 2012 of LINKS.

GIVEN THAT he’s had a hand in the creation of many of the best courses of the past two decades, from Pacific Dunes to Sebonack to Old Macdonald, where he received a co-design credit, it seems unusual that Jim Urbina could be described as golf architecture’s next rising star. But that’s the current state of affairs.

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Appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of LINKS.

FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS the best-selling single item in the USGA’s merchandise tents hasn’t been a shirt or a hat—it’s been the official U.S.

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