Courses and Travel

Can Kiawah Island Stop Slow Play?

Larry Olmsted

Slow play is not just annoying, it is killing golf. Yet another National Golf Foundation report full of bad news... Read more »

Innisbrook offers 72 holes of golf

James McAfee

Even golfers staying up to a week at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club, located north of Tampa, should never... Read more »

Fyre Lake: A heartland course with a lot of heart

Herb Gould

  It takes bold thinking to debut an upscale new golf course and housing development in this economic climate—even if... Read more »

How Mike Davis Tweaked Congressional for the Open

David Barrett

USGA executive director Mike Davis lives and breathes course set-up, and for that reason his stamp has been all over... Read more »

Golf Course Review: The Pasatiempo Golf Club, Santa Cruz, California

Bob Fagan

  The sublime uphill par-3 third hole at Pasatiempo.  It is a difficult hole from any tee.  (Courtesy of Rob... Read more »

Tom Bedell Hits an R7 Off the Deck at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club

Tom Bedell

All right, I’ve used some indelicate language here, but I didn’t know the exciting conclusion to this international round was... Read more »

A Bandonista’s Guide to Kohler

Stephen Goodwin

I am ridiculously spoiled.  Over the last several years I’ve played almost as many rounds at Bandon Dunes as I... Read more »

Pronghorn — Trying Economic Times are Public’s Gain

Chris Santella

I wake each day to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.  One recent morning, the story corresponding to the opening of... Read more »

Natadola Bay, Fiji

John and Jeannine Henebry

While visiting Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu this spring to photograph Natadola Bay Golf Course, with views of the... Read more »

Sundog Eyewear: Making Golf Cool

James A. Frank

I’ve written in the past about Sundog Eyewear, which makes very cool—and very effective—sunglasses that are sported on tour by... Read more »

Win One For Dad: Father’s Day Contest from Callaway Golf

James A. Frank

With Father’s Day just a few days away, Callaway Golf is trying to get you to pull on the old... Read more »

Turning Stone Resort Casino: A Winning Hand

James A. Frank

At most casinos, management tries to trick the patrons, turning night into day, pumping in oxygen, messing with the lights,... Read more »

Mean Greens at Turnberry Isle

Janina Jacobs

If there was one complaint about business travel or taking well-deserved vacation time, it would probably be the battle to... Read more »

Washington D.C.: Forget the cherry blossoms, stay and watch the U.S. Open

Terry Moore

One of my father’s favorite sayings was: “If you can’t travel first class why bother traveling at all?” As a... Read more »

What Does a $500 Million Golf Course Look Like?

Larry Olmsted

It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, or maybe Jaws 3 (in 3D!) complete with underwater tunnels and... Read more »