Courses and Travel

Sky Blue Sky Valley

Derek Duncan

  The original designer of this resort course tucked up in the canyons of the Blue Ridge Mountains just south... Read more »

The RTJ Trail Highlight: Grand National’s Lake Course

Derek Duncan

  Many people consider this the best stop on the RTJ Trail. I’m not totally sure I agree but I... Read more »

Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail: A Real Stew at Grand National’s Links Course

Derek Duncan

If it’s true the Lake course here is the most balanced course on the Trail (perhaps), the Links is where... Read more »

Making the Most of New Smyrna Beach

Derek Duncan

  I never saw this course prior to the 2007 bunker and green renovation but it couldn’t have been very interesting... Read more »

China and Golf – The Sport’s Next Gold Rush

Larry Olmsted

When it comes to the world’s biggest country, the PGA, USGA, R&A, Tiger Woods and company have awakened a sleeping... Read more »

Aberdovey and Bernard Darwin

Timothy Nolan

The links at Aberdovey, Wales, as you see, are not a difficult place to get up an afternoon’s worth of... Read more »

Special Chance to Play the 65th Best Course on Earth – For a Good Cause!

Larry Olmsted

  At least according to Golf Magazine, which ranks The Maidstone Club the sixty fifth best public or private in... Read more »

Seafront Beauty: Wales’ Royal Porthcawl

Timothy Nolan

The story is told of a prospective guest player appearing at the office door of Royal Porthcawl’s club secretary.  A... Read more »

Amelia River Golf Club–Closed Quarters

Derek Duncan

  You know how birds sometimes nest in odd places, taking eminent domain in an overlooked eave or post column you wouldn’t... Read more »

Holding on to Holston Hills

Derek Duncan

Holston Hills has the reputation of being a Donald Ross course that time forgot because so little has supposedly changed over... Read more »

Levels on the Lake: Cobblestone

Derek Duncan

If I only had one round to play and it had to be in the greater Atlanta area, with no... Read more »

A Distant Whiff of Ross – Wilmington Island Club

Derek Duncan

For years this club was an amenity to members and guests of the General Oglethorpe Hotel, one of the grand... Read more »

ChampionsGate-International–Stranger in a Strange Land

Derek Duncan

The International Course at this 36-hole complex a few miles southwest of Disney World was conceived to emulate the look... Read more »

Riviera Maya Golf: Mayakoba & El Cameleon

Larry Olmsted

Today I am wrapping up my recent return visit to the Rivera Maya where it started, at the Mayakoba Resort. I... Read more »

Spring Island Completes New Sports Complex

Scott Kauffman

   Spring Island, S.C. – Spring Island, a 3,000 acre private community in the South Carolina Lowcountry, is investing in... Read more »