Two of the country’s most intriguing new courses—Old Barnwell and The Tree Farm—are radically rethinking the private club. Situated just 25 miles apart outside Aiken, S.C., and opening simultaneously in the fall of 2023, the clubs embody an emerging ethos in the golf zeitgeist, namely to embrace the game in more free and culturally meaningful ways.

Our most popular story in December is Architecture Editor Derek Duncan’s feature on how these two new courses in South Carolina are hellbent on breaking convention.