LINKS Golf Podcast Episode 34: A Golf Trip to Iceland; Thousand Greens
In this episode, George details and expands upon his published columns from the 2019 Fall Issue of LINKS Magazine. Al and George talk about Thousand Greens, a new social network expanding access to the world’s top 100 golf courses. George discusses his golf trip to Iceland and what he learned about the closest European neighbor […]
LINKS Golf Podcast Episode 33: LIVE from Casa de Campo at the 5th Annual LINKS Invitational
Season 4 begins with Al and George talking about their personal experiences at Casa de Campo. The hosts cover Teeth of the Dog, George’s honeymoon, and George’s encounter with course designers Pete and Alice Dye. Al sits down for two interviews recorded live in the Dominican Republic with Casa de Campo Director of Golf Operations […]
George Peper’s Golf Bucket List, Updated
LINKS Editor George Peper As a reader of LINKS Magazine, you’ve likely played golf for more than a few years—and with better than average skill. You’ve played on numerous courses and under all sorts of circumstances. You’ve made shots—and made friends—that will be with you forever. You’ve repeatedly experienced both the pure joy and utter […]
Premier Properties: Desert Mountain Club & Community
Scottsdale, Ariz. There’s change in the air at Desert Mountain, where an increase in new members and real estate sales is showing a definite youth movement. Last year, Desert Mountain surpassed its all-time record for custom-home sales, nearing $200 million year-to-date. In the past six months, the community has welcomed 90 new members, with 85 […]
Grandfather Golf & Country Club
“There’s something going on here at Grandfather that is truly special.” That’s a simple statement coming from a friend of mine at our annual meetings for a nonprofit foundation at Grandfather Golf & Country Club, and one that seems to be echoed around every corner of the mountainside club in Linville, N.C. A Scottish man […]
Premier Properties: Dataw Island Club
Beaufort, S.C. The hospitality, friendliness, and kindness that you find here were a big draw,” says Michelle Seal, who moved to Dataw Island with her husband, Brian, this past year. “We really wanted to be in a small town, near the water, but without too much traffic. The minute we drove over the causeway, it […]
Premier Properties: Rancho San Lucas Golf Club
Los Cabos, Mexico The centerpiece of an 834-acre resort and residential community fronting a 1.2-mile stretch of beach on the Pacific Ocean, the Greg Norman-designed course at Rancho San Lucas, 15 minutes from downtown Cabo San Lucas, promises to be the destination’s next great golf venue. “When we were first asked to build a golf […]
Dumbarnie Links
On a trip to Scotland last fall I had the opportunity to play a sneak-preview round at Dumbarnie Links. Clive Clark, a member of the 1973 Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team, has taken a relatively undistinguished landscape and created 18 fun, testing, and memorable holes. About nine miles south of St. Andrews on […]
Top 10 Courses: Spain
Well-known for its famous coastlines along the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Spain also boasts a flavorful variety of more than 300 golf courses. From shore to shore you can find some of the best Robert Trent Jones Sr. designs in all of Europe, see Seve Ballesteros’s influence sprinkled across his homeland, and visit a plethora of […]
Ep. 32: Undiscovered South Carolina Road Trip, Part 2
The hosts round out the second half of the South Carolina road trip in this episode, resuming in Greenville and passing through Columbia on the way back to Beaufort in the state’s Lowcountry region. This leg presented a different flavor of experiences than the first, such as racing high-performance sports cars to passing through an […]