Courses and Travel

Fairmont has two golfing gems at Banff, Jasper

James McAfee

Building the Banff Springs golf course back in the 1920s in Banff National Park located in the Rocky Mountains in... Read more »

Kukui’ula Starts Cottages Construction

Scott Kauffman

Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii  – Construction is underway on a new collection of plantation-style cottages that will be part of the lodge... Read more »

“State of the Game”–the Golf Channel’s Collaboration with NBC Sport Gets Off to a Good Start….Mostly.

John Strawn

After the third round of the Accenture World Match Play Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Resort in Tucson, AZ,... Read more »

On Portugal’s Meters and Measurements

Jay Stuller

While on a business trip to Africa a number of years ago, we had a stopover in southern Portugal’s Faro,... Read more »

Bees on the Tees Please

Janina Jacobs

Despite an unpleasant encounter with a Mexican bee a couple weeks ago, there is still a great need for the... Read more »

Ratings Are For Raters

Tom Harack

Lately I’ve rehashed a conversation with Steven Hahn in the media lounge at the recent PGA Show. A single-digit player,... Read more »

Highland Swing

Anita Draycott

A spirited romp through Scotland’s Links and Whisky Trails A sign in the Glasgow Airport proclaims that Scotland is the... Read more »

The Club at Savannah Harbor: A Delicious Cupp

Derek Duncan

I confess I’m not always able to wrap my head around Bob Cupp’s courses. The architectural features often feel out... Read more »

A Black Bear in Orlando’s Badlands

Derek Duncan

Black Bear is located north of Orlando in a kind of rural badlands full of scrub, sand, pockets of wetlands... Read more »

Florida Courses With Lots of Birdies

Bob Cullen

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

Women Rev It Up in Thailand

Tom Bedell

Golf was first played in Thailand in 1906, at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club. When the Banyan Golf Club in... Read more »

Discovery Land Opens Baker’s Bay Golf Course

Scott Kauffman

Great Guana Cay, Bahamas – In the past year, Discovery Land Company has seen a dramatic rise in the buying... Read more »

Great Expectorations. Tiger Woods and the Gloomy Gob.

John Strawn

Ewen Murray, a commentator on Sky Sports, was appalled when Tiger Woods launched a gob of saliva onto the 12th... Read more »

Crystal Springs Resort: Winter Golf Pentathlon, Take Two

James A. Frank

I’ve never had much interest in snow golf. I have a hard enough time playing in shorts and a T-shirt... Read more »

Schmidt-Curley Opens Mexico’s Amanali Country Club

Scott Kauffman

On a visually compelling landscape outside Mexico City, Schmidt-Curley Design, a leading golf course architectural firm, is at work on a new... Read more »