Oakmont’s Church Pew bunker ranks among golf’s toughest features

The U.S. Open returns to Oakmont this week, bringing the infamous Church Pew bunkers back into the national spotlight. A series of ridges designed to bring you to your knees, the Church Pews rank among golf’s most notable features. In their honor, let’s consider more of the most challenging and distinctive features in golf. Church […]

Teeing Off: The first win is the toughest

Welcome to the new season of Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Jonathan Wall take a day’s topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by writing jay.busbee@yahoo.com, or hit us on Twitter at @jaybusbee and @jonathanrwall. Today, we consider whether the first win is the […]

Size up the world’s toughest courses and greatest golf fails

Golf Channel and BuzzFeed are doing a little back-and-forth promotion for David Feherty’s new show, and as part of that, they’re bringing you some of the world’s toughest golf courses. Above, you can see the Legends Golf Course in Limpopo, South Africa, which features a “19th hole” where players tee off the side of a […]