Courses and Travel

Kaanapali Golf and the Royal Treatment

Jeff Wallach

Since 1963, when Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf was filmed at the Royal Course here, Kaanapali Resort’s elegant golf holes... Read more »

Driving Toward 100 at the Brattleboro Country Club

Tom Bedell

History does not record when the first oath flew or who uttered it after a wayward shot at the Brattleboro... Read more »

Monterey’s Twin Treats – Bayonet Black Horse

Bob Fagan

Bayonet Black Horse is truly one of America’s most overlooked golfing gems!    You smell the salt air and its... Read more »

The Breezy Dye Links Course at Casa De Campo

Jeff Wallach

If you believe George Peper and Malcolm Campbell in their recent book True Links, they identify some 246 great layouts... Read more »

The Massive (and Massively Cool) Kapalua Golf Experience

Jeff Wallach

If you’re at all like me, you probably feel that golf is just much too easy.  In which case you... Read more »

Life on the Plantation

Tom Bedell

The greens were like lightning, the land forms were massive and rolling, the wind was blowing about 30 mph. In... Read more »

The Fairmont Kea Lani: Culture in Paradise

Brian McCallen

  When I last visited Maui 21 years ago, the all-suite Kea Lani Hotel was under construction. Kea Lani, I... Read more »

Nashville: Vandy, pickers, golf & music ‘to beat the band’

Terry Moore

“It’s a coin toss.” That’s how a veteran Nashville, Tennessee, cabbie answered my question about whether spring or fall would... Read more »

King Kamehameha Meets Frank Lloyd Wright

Jeff Wallach

. . . It all makes sense at the only private golf club on Maui that offers a “member for... Read more »

It’s Good to Be the King

Tom Bedell

[June 11, 2025]–It’s King Kamehameha Day, a public holiday in Hawaii, so it seemed like a good time to pull... Read more »

McCallen on the Rocks

Tom Bedell

  Only time for a quick post this evening, but since I know all the fellow Golf Road Warriors will... Read more »

Maui’s Mr. Blue

Tom Bedell

Let’s start with a quiz—namely, what the heck is this a photo of?: Answer below, but for now I’ll say... Read more »

Wailea: A Triumvirate of Colorful, Artistic Golf

Jeff Wallach

Today the Golf Road Warriors took on Wailea’s renowned Gold Course in the morning and the equally fine Emerald Course... Read more »

Heeding Voices at Wailea

Tom Bedell

On Earth Day I was quite a bit removed from my usual portion of the planet. After a long, endlessly... Read more »

There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills

Brian McCallen

Poakahi (Monday) The Golf Road Warriors Maui extravaganza is officially underway, a.k.a. Hackers in Paradise! On a warm, sultry day,... Read more »