Architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. fields our question about the importance of trees on golf courses. Jones Jr. began designing courses with his father, Robert Trent Jones, in the 1960s and has built more than 200 in countries around the world, including ...

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government not to cut down more than 10 trees at Washington’s historic East Potomac Golf Course without prior notice, amid a legal fight over President Trump’s redevelopment plans. The DC Preservation League sued to ...

WASHINGTON — A plan to restore the historic Rock Creek Park Golf Course includes the removal of at least 1,100 trees inside the park, according to planning documents that have been approved by the National Park Service (NPS). The course suffers from ...

The National Park Service said the dump of debris, between the fourth and ninth holes, does not exceed environmental limits. Opponents disagree.

Course superintendents have a love/hate relationship with trees, according to Sharon Lilly's book "Golf Course Tree Management." Trees beautify and cool a course. They aid a golfer's depth perception, create doglegs and separate fairways. But trees also hobble work to grow and maintain a course's key asset -- its turf.

I sometimes take my very life in my hands when I suggest that a certain tree happens to be spoiling a pretty good golf hole." —A.W. Tillinghast, 1937 ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Let's start here: The word "oak" is in the name of the club, and the great ...