Courses and Travel

Virtuoso Travel Week Reveals the Current Hot Spots are Actually Cool Weather Destinations

Michael Patrick Shiels

The Las Vegas summer temperatures soared – like an Olympic pole-vaulter – over the 100-degree mark during 2024 Virtuoso Travel... Read more »

Travel Ambassadors Aboard Delta Airlines and at the Miami Airport Hilton

Michael Patrick Shiels

My cross-country flight from Miami was comfortable but not memorable, which is the best you can hope for in air... Read more »

Spirit Airlines Accidental Airport Camping on Record Travel Day

Michael Patrick Shiels

Approximately 2.9-million travelers – a record for U.S. airports – flew on Friday, May 24, 2024. I was one of... Read more »

Notes & quotes from Men’s Golf at the Paris Olympics

Terry Moore

Although there is no prize money and only medals bestowed on Olympic golfers, many countries do reward their players with... Read more »

Scheffler’s golden moment in Paris

Terry Moore

Fifty or even 100 years from now, golf historians may say golf in the Olympics rose to new heights with... Read more »

Lansing-Area Native Joe Davis Travels as Major League Baseball, Dodgers and NFL Sportscaster

Michael Patrick Shiels

I caught up with television sportscaster Joe Davis, the 36-year-old Potterville prodigy who calls 90 Dodger baseball games each season... Read more »

Different Ways Around the Course

Tom Bedell

When he retired from a high-powered three decade-plus career with ExxonMobil as engineer and executive at the age of 58,... Read more »

Olympic Stars Train at World Equestrian Center: Ocala’s New “Horse Capital” Tourist Destination

Michael Patrick Shiels

The Sunshine State has a hot new attraction: the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida’s “Horse Capital of the World.”... Read more »

Travelers Championship Signature Status Is a Financial Hit to PGA of America’s Connecticut Section

Anthony Pioppi

The inaugural edition of the Travelers Championship and its Signature status could not have ended better for fans, supporters and... Read more »

On its 10th Anniversary the Meijer LPGA Classic Tee off

Terry Moore

(Belmont, MI) Thanks to its well-planned and executed press conference in May at Blythefield Country Club, the Meijer LPGA Classic... Read more »

Santa Monica was the Setting for Curb Your Enthusiasm

Michael Patrick Shiels

Larry David finished his long-running, award winning, HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but the comic actor’s physical footprint will be... Read more »

Michigan’s Brehm & partner Hubbard finish third at the Zurich Classic

Terry Moore

When a friend congratulated Michigan’s Ryan Brehm on his stellar play last Sunday at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans,... Read more »

KELLY WOLGAMOTT TALKS TRAVEL AT THE ANNUAL PURE MICHIGAN CONFERENCE ON TOURISM

Michael Patrick Shiels

The State’s leading tourism industry providers and officials traveled to the Pure Michigan Governor’s Conference on Tourism.

AARP’s PAULA CUNNINGHAM GOES HOLLYWOOD WITH STAR MARTHA REEVES

Michael Patrick Shiels

AARP’s State Director Paula Cunningham traveled from Lansing to Los Angeles and was figuratively “Dancing in the Street” for music... Read more »

Masters Notebook: Tuesday & Wednesday

Terry Moore

In Jon Rahm’s presser on Tuesday, I asked him this question: Brian Harman was in here yesterday, and he talked... Read more »