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A dapper, big-hitting Utah native, who went by the nickname Gix, George Von Elm is one of those curiously recurring characters who isn't particularly well known but nevertheless continues to crop up as one leafs through the pages of golf history. He won the U.S. Amateur at Baltusrol in 1926, for example, defeating the great Bobby Jones, who had claimed the two previous titles (besting ...
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Several events and turns thereof have me thinking of the 1931 U.S. Open, held way back when at The Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. This was site of July’s U.S. Senior Open Championship, of course, won by Olin Browne. What’s more, I was in the Midwest, some 2-3 hours west of Toledo, just prior to the Senior Open — I can vouch personally that there’s ...
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It’s 6 a.m. in late July and the sun is just peeking over the treetops on the eastern edge of Blue Mash Golf Course in Laytonsville, MD. It’s already 85 degrees, heading for 103. The morning newscasters are advising sensible people to stay indoors. But, as Blue Mash’s sales and marketing director, Emily Widner, can tell you, a daily fee golf course can’t get by ...
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Stuck for a place to play in central Ohio, its tallest peak Mt. Nicklaus? An hour’s drive east of Muirfield Village and other storied private clubs in and around Columbus, the nation’s premier manufacturer of hand-crafted baskets has given public golfers a place to put all their eggs.
On a rolling, wooded site with elevation changes more typical of the Appalachian Mountains than the Midwestern plains, ...
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What better time to reminisce about long summer days than in the darkest depths of winter? As we approach the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, let's think forward to the other side, when there's nothing quite like heading out after dinner in late June for a cool, leisurely 18 holes (as our neighbors to the south may be enjoying right now). ...
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I’m thankful for my Saturday morning golf partners. Good guys who take the game seriously but never themselves. Armed with a bullet-proof sense of humor, they join me as comrades strolling down the fairways, foregoing noisy carts that spoil the journey, the simple quiet steps of the day. Even more than their deft soft wedges, I admire their good-natured bantering and the little courtesies extended. ...
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Forget the Scots. Golf was invented in America. There’s a petroglyph at Chaco Canyon showing Kokopelli holding a niblick. The descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans have now run amok with the sport, and tribal golf is about as good as it gets all across the Golden State.
Journey at Pechanga—Temecula
Journey makes no pretense about being a walking-friendly course. It sprawls across the hills of southern Temecula ...
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Periodically I bring you detailed and useful info on one of North America’s best destinations for a golf-based second home.
I write the most popular and widely read column on second-home real estate in the English language. My column is called “Life on Vacation,” and runs every Friday in USA Today, which also happens to be the number one newspaper in, you guessed it, the USA.
Because ...
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