Courses and Travel

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 »

Why Christina Aquilera Will Never Sing the National Anthem at the US Open

John Strawn

When I covered the NBA a couple of decades ago, I used to dread the obligatory pre-game performance of the... Read more »

One Sexy Italian

Tom Bedell

I’m not talking about my wife–although she can certainly make a claim to the title, especially on Valentine’s Day–but about... Read more »

Move to Pebble Beach!

Larry Olmsted

This weekend many golf fans had the pleasure of watching the celebrity-laden AT&T Pebble Beach Invitational tournament. When you see... Read more »