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• For All My English Major Friends: Tintern Abbey

  As explained on my VisitWales blog, there is more to this country than golf courses. Yes, I really mean it! Tintern Abbey predates Wordsworth's poem about it by nearly 700 years. It's quite a sight and I was there almost by myself, which added to the spectacle and the mystery. Hope you like these photos. Oh, and for you golfers, it's less than half an hour from Celtic Manor.

• Portraits of Royal Porthcawl

  Royal Porthcawl is the big one, the course against which all others in Wales are measured. And for good reason. Porthcawl is, simply, a class act. Read about my adventure there on my VisitWales blog. Then enjoy the photos.

• Golf As It Really Should Be: Nefyn & District

  Played it for the first time last weekend, and I couldn’t wait to write about Nefyn & District Golf Club (Clwb Golff Nefyn A’r Cylch, in Welsh), which is now among my favorite courses in the world. Remember that first time you saw a truly great course? Perhaps your first round at Bandon Dunes? Or one of the Long Island heavyweights—Shinnecock, National, and Maidstone? Definitely Pebble Beach, which Nefyn is often compared to? That feeling of exhilaration seeing unaltered landscapes, with dramatic coastline if possible, which exist for no other reason but golf? That’s Nefyn. Designed originally by James Braid and slightly altered ...

• Sunglass Seminar #3: Maui Jim

  Think Hawaii and it’s only natural to think about sunshine and golf. The bright sun that bathes the 50th state led to the creation of Maui Jim sunglasses nearly three decades ago, and in the years since golf has been the driving force behind a number of lenses and frames from this high-end optical company. Maui Jim turns out a wide variety of designs, more than 70 styles and nearly 200 different products: rimless, rimmed, metal, nylon, flexible, colorful, adjustable. There are shapes and sizes to fit any head and any sport, with island-inspired names like Honolua Bay, Hapuna, and White ...