Courses and Travel

Golf Road Warriors Bivouac in Palm Springs

John Strawn

The Clean Uncluttered Lines of Midcentury Modern The Palm Springs Golf Road Warriors bivouacked at the JW Marriott Desert Springs... Read more »

LUXURIOUS DORAL RESORT AND SPA PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON YOU!

Michael Patrick Shiels

Flip on the television in your guestroom at the Marriott Doral Resort and Spa, in Miami, and you will find a... Read more »

Just Can’t Wait to Get on the Road Again

John Strawn

Willie Nelson’s anthem keeps cycling through my brain as I wrap up my preparations for the Golf Road Warriors’ trip... Read more »

LINKS100: The First Top-Course List Where Your Vote Counts

James A. Frank

Being in the golf business, the question I fear most is “What’s your favorite course?” It’s almost impossible to answer... Read more »

California Desert an A-List Getaway Destination … Again

Ken Van Vechten

About the time cool was invented, the Rat Pack was lounging poolside, martini in hand, in Palm Springs.  Cool never... Read more »

In The Belly of the Sabertooth Beast

Jay Stuller

Once the last resort for old men with bad backs and yippy hands, long and belly putters are now showing... Read more »

In Praise of Ample Luggage and Clean, Green Shirts

Jay Stuller

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

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

Jeff Wallach

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

The Balm of Palm Springs

Jay Stuller

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

That Callaway Touch

Jay Stuller

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

Brot und Spiele in der “Ewigen Stadt” Rom

Evelyn Gruber

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

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

Jeff Wallach

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

Geoffrey Cornish, 1914-2012

John Strawn

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

Musgrove Mill Gets a Mulligan

Brad King

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.

Comparative Advantage and Golf in Costa Rica

Bob Cullen

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