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In Praise of Ample Luggage and Clean, Green Shirts

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A twenty-five inch Travelpro MaxLite 2 Expandable Spinner is a luxury I’ve been without for far too long, a piece... Read more »

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Travel Writers’ Dirty Little Secret (one in a long series!)

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Yep, even when we’re working on a guidebook we look at, well, guidebooks. Not that we don’t also do our... Read more »

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The Balm of Palm Springs

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At this time of year the good people of the Pacific Northwest are absorbing more precipitation than they shed, a... Read more »

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That Callaway Touch

A typical Callaway Performance Center packs 8 acres and a research building into a small space.

Thanks to a 1995 assignment from a feature magazine published by the Discovery Channel, I was granted one of the... Read more »

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Brot und Spiele in der “Ewigen Stadt” Rom

Auszug aus Albrechts Südeuropa Golf Guide Von Evelyn Gruber Die antike Metropole und moderne Weltstadt vereint Gegensätze auf wunderbarste Weise... Read more »

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Tahoe’s Martis Camp: Camp Grows Up (Even if you Haven’t)

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As someone who enjoyed years of fun at summer camp as a kid, the private community of Martis Camp, just... Read more »

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Geoffrey Cornish, 1914-2012

Geoffrey Cornish. A Great Gentleman and an Influential Presence for Seventy Years in Golf Course Design

I just learned that Geoffrey Cornish, one of the most influential golf course architects of the last one hundred years,... Read more »

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Musgrove Mill Gets a Mulligan

Musgrove Mill Golf Club

Reports of demise of renowned Arnold Palmer-designed golf course in South Carolina are exaggerated, as club owner McConnell Golf teams with membership to continue operations.

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Comparative Advantage and Golf in Costa Rica

Costa Rican golf at its best: the 15th at Hacienda Pinilla

Contemplating golf in Costa Rica, I think of the Law of Comparative Advantage. Perhaps you remember it from Economics 101. Put simply,... Read more »

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How Elite is The Cascades?

The beloved par-4 4th at The Cascades.

One of the first impressions I had playing The Cascades in the Allegheny Mountains of western Virginia was to think... Read more »

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An Oconee Original: The Landing

The frightening second shot into the 5th green (photo from Blair Howard at about.com)

The Landing (née Port Armor, née Reynolds Landing), was the first course built on Lake Oconee in Central Georgia in the mid-1980’s,... Read more »

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Michigan: Rock & Roll You’ll Never Forget

Arcadia Bluffs, Golf in Michigan, Pure Michigan

Michigan home of the Motown Sound, The Motor City, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock... Read more »

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Golf in Costa Rica-Papagayo Golf and Country Club

The downhill, par-three second at Papagayo: 103 yards to a tiny green.

I have long loved finding a good golf course that’s out-of-the way and little known–a hidden gem. I still get a... Read more »

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My first visit to Bandon, Part 5: Old Macdonald

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This is Part V in a series of five posts chronicling my trip to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort from January... Read more »

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Golf in Costa Rica-Reserva Conchal

Going for the 18th green in two at Reserva Conchal

The first thing to know about Costa Rica’s Reserva Conchal Golf Club is that it’s hard to play there. Not... Read more »