Courses and Travel

Jamie Darling’s New Baby

David DeSmith

Jamie Darling has been a golf pro for many years — in places as far-flung as Iceland.  But his new... Read more »

Why Next Week’s Senior PGA Championship Really Matters to Golf

Larry Olmsted

The Senior PGA Tour is packed full of Hall of Famers like Tom Kite, Fred Couples, Bernhard Langer, Tom Lehman, Mark O’Meara, Curtis Strange and Tom Watson. Watson alone has nearly three times as many Major titles as the Top 11 performers at the Players combined.

Anita Draycott

Lords and Lady of the Manor It’s been a full week here as we Golf Road Warriors tackled some of... Read more »

A Fitting Ending

James A. Frank

None of us Golf Road Warriors expects any sympathy for the schedule we’ve kept the last few days. Lots of... Read more »

Dundonald Links — You Need to Know About This Place

David DeSmith

It’s Monday – the first full day in Ayrshire for our Golf Road Warriors group.  Angus McIntosh, our devoted and... Read more »

The Gailes Will Whisper To You

James Mason

There aren’t very many golf clubs in the world where you have to be invited to become a member, there... Read more »

Day 5: A Winning Daily Double

James A. Frank

The list of great courses in Scotland is long: St. Andrews (of course), Muirfield, Carnoustie, Turnberry, Dornoch, North Berwick, Prestwick,... Read more »

The Perfect Neighbour, In The Perfect Neighbourhood

James Mason

I have to state from the start I am a self proclaimed lover of Kyle Phillips designed golf courses and... Read more »

Western Gailes — One WOW After Another

David DeSmith

Jerry Kessel has been Club Manager at Western Gailes GC for a little more than a year.  In that time,... Read more »

Our Posh Ayrshire Crash Pad

David DeSmith

The Golf Road Warriors arrived in Ayrshire last night and didn’t get a lot of sleep in their new hotel,... Read more »

Slaves To The Weather

James A. Frank

Traveling golfers in Scotland have few worries. Usually someone else is doing the driving, and in our case it’s Angus,... Read more »

Day 4: Learning Links Golf

James A. Frank

I think that if you asked most Americans who’ve played golf in Scotland to name their favorite course, about 7... Read more »

Swinging In The Rain

James Mason

We are called golf road warriors and today was the second time on this trip that the old warrior spirit... Read more »

A Mad Day on the Mighty Ailsa

David DeSmith

If you haven’t played The Ailsa Course at Turnberry, you’ve wanted to.  If you have played it, you’ve wanted to... Read more »

A Royal Welcome

David DeSmith

How do you win the hearts of the citizens of a proud Scottish town?  Take a derelict landmark hotel, spend... Read more »