Courses and Travel

Golf Course Review: Aetna Springs Golf Course, Pope Valley, California – A GREAT 9-Holer

Bob Fagan

A view from the 2nd green toward the 3rd fairway is just one of many inviting ones at Aetna Springs!... Read more »

Rick Smith, I Love You, Man!

Jeff Wallach

Despite the positive reviews I’d heard of Rick Smith’s golf design work, I was still skeptical about a former instructor... Read more »

Golf’s Best All-Inclusive Resort – Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, Riviera Maya, Mexico

Bob Fagan

Picture postcard golf awaits you at the Iberostar Playa Paraiso Golf Club as seen from behind the par-3 second green,... Read more »

Premier Time (and Space)

Tom Bedell

One of the reasons I like the television show “How I Met Your Mother” is that it often imaginatively plays... Read more »

The Golf Road Warriors Hit Gaylord, MI

Jeff Wallach

The Golf Road warriors kicked off our latest sortie– in Gaylord, Michigan– with a surgical strike on Big Buck’s Brewpub,... Read more »

The Good Luck Skunk

Tom Bedell

Bleary-eyed a little after four in the morning and that many hours sleep, I drove through the dark toward the... Read more »

AUTHENTIC LINKS, WHISKEY ON NORTH AMERICA’S SCOTTISH COASTLINE

Michael Patrick Shiels

James Blanchard served as United States Ambassador to Canada in the mid 1990’s after a term as Michigan’s Governor. As Ambassador, the former... Read more »

Mission Hills Hainan Resort Adds 10th Golf Course

Scott Kauffman

Mission Hills Group – China’s leading golf brand and the country’s largest developer and owner of golf course resort and... Read more »

U.S. Marshals And The Golf Squad at La Costa

Jay Stuller

Now, if Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens were running a golf course, he’d most certainly be Justified in putting a... Read more »

Links Golf and the Creation of Augusta National–and a Chance to Win the Golf Trip of a Lifetime

John Strawn

Links golf courses are not popular in China, where Augusta National is regarded as the beau ideal.   This is ironic,... Read more »

Thai People a “Secret Weapon” for Golf Tourism

James Mason

What makes golf in Thailand so special? It’s the people, says Mark Siegel, Thailand’s biggest dedicated inbound golf tourism operator.... Read more »

SUMMER GLOBETROTTING, RIGHT HERE IN MICHIGAN

Michael Patrick Shiels

“Let me outta here!” is what 16-percent of fliers told farewatchdog.com when asked if they’d be willing to pay up to $20... Read more »