Golf

La Cana: Picture an Ideal Winter Resort…

The ideal winter resort golf course, I think, has to have certain attributes. It should have real seaside holes, not… Read more »

Tobacco Road: Frustration and Exhilaration

Returning after an absence of several years to the first tee at Tobacco Road, I felt an unusual mixture of… Read more »

How Much Longer Will Crowds Watch Golf?

Maybe it was when I couldn’t see Rory McIlroy hit the ball in the water—and he was 50-yards away from… Read more »

Willbrook: What Makes a Course Female-Friendly?

  Some time ago, the now-defunct magazine Golf for Women published an article called “The 50 Top Golf Courses for… Read more »

Grand Strand Private Options II: Wachesaw Plantation

Two things distinguish Wachesaw Plantation from the hundred-odd golf courses along South Carolina’s Grand Strand: topography and privacy. Wachesaw, near… Read more »

Private Options on the Grand Strand: The Reserve

I’ve written before about the deterioration of daily-fee golf on South Carolina’s Grand Strand. The coastal strip surrounding Myrtle Beach… Read more »

Pine Needles: Ross for the Rest of Us

Here are three things lots of people know about Pine Needles: –Donald Ross designed the course in 1927. –One of… Read more »

Mid-Pines: Golf With a Shot of Tradition

If you like your golf with a shot of tradition and a chaser of beauty, you should consider the Mid-Pines… Read more »

Florida Courses With Lots of Birdies

Playing the courses at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort north of Miami, the birds caught my attention first. Not birds… Read more »

My Top Five Florida Destinations

I got an email the other day from a European friend. She and her husband plan to be in Florida… Read more »