Fountain Hills and Fort McDowell ─ Eight Amazing Courses; One Great Destination
Whoever famously described golf as “a good walk spoiled” never got a chance to experience the beautiful Fountain Hills and Fort McDowell area and some of the Southwest’s most unspoiled vistas. Too bad. The good news is that for golfers today, Fountain Hills and Fort McDowell let you experience the best of the Southwest on the Sonoran Desert Golf Trail. Blessed by spectacular mountain views on every side, this oasis features fascinating history, arts, and culture. Crest the mountain pass leaving behind the hustle and bustle of Scottsdale and the rest of the Valley, and you are in another world... Read more
Jeff Ritter demonstrates simple tips for more power is this episode of The Golf Digest Clinic! For more information on coaching with Jeff, visit JeffRitterGolf.com
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Several of my colleagues are at this moment hard at play - - after which they'll be forced to work late into the night - - to bring news and interpretation of their seven days of golf and leisure in Scottsdale, Arizona. Writers Jeff Wallach, Peter Kessler, Tom Bedell, Terry Moore and videographer Jamie McWilliams drew the long straws for this trip. It sounds cushy ...
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One of the reasons Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s golf courses are held in such high regard—by architectural cognoscenti; by magazine ranking panels; by international developers—is that they’re so often, so obviously, brilliant. Sand Hills, Bandon Trails, Friars Head, their new work restoring the primitive look of Pinehurst No. 2—this is all art that golfers will revere into the next century.
A second reason is that ...
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I am now traveling quite regularly to play golf, often abroad. And traveling for an extended golf trip is much different that traveling light for shorter business trips as I had often done in the past. It finally dawned on me that it would be easier to operate with a check list in order to pack quicker and not worry that I might have missed ...
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Since the dawn of humanity and on every continent but Antarctica, bands of people have displaced others in quest of territory, food and security. As much as any of such population, Native Americans did not fare well during the European migration into the New World. Pushed into reservations in the United States, Indian tribes were typically left with land that Manifest Destiny-minded politicians felt had ...
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What’s most distinctive about desert golf is the way the vistas can inspire the eye and mind, while the course beats your game to a bloody pulp, especially when shots stray more than 12 inches off of a fairway. Rough? It ain’t just taller and thicker grass in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert around Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and Fort McDowell. Here, rough means gravel, sand, rocks, spiny ...
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Every golfer alive has stood on a tee waiting for the group in front of them. The six hour round at Bethpage Black is legendary. The amount of time that is takes to complete a round is a problem that plagues the game and keeps participation rates abnormally low. Every course struggles with how to implement the correct measures that will speed up play and ...
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One of the economic realties of the now passing recession is that the last cycle could be aptly described as the Tiffany/Coach era; the era of consumer discretionary spending on luxury goods. Golf’s symbol of the Tiffany/Coach era is membership in a country club. It is hard to argue the point that as a purely economic construction, private membership versus public golf is a pretty ...
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