Vidanta Puerto Peñasco – The Best Golf Course You’ve Never Heard Of?
Puerto Peñasco. Ever hear of it? Unless you live in Arizona or Southern California, it’s unlikely that you know this beach town—also called Rocky Point—located at the top of the Gulf of California, which separates the Baja Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. There is no commercial airport nearby, meaning you have to drive and deal […]
Links Living: Desert Highlands
The original desert-golf community has found a novel way to stay young Scottsdale is synonymous today with high-end communities featuring golf courses from leading architects. But it’s worth remembering that the northern reaches of this area, 30 miles from downtown Phoenix, were little more than cactus and rocks three decades ago and that the transformation […]
Greg Norman’s Newest Course in Mexico
A trip to Mexico led to a revelation about Greg Norman and his courses
Links Living: The Country Club at Mirasol
Young and vibrant, this Palm Beach-area club is undergoing big changes to be ready for a bright future Forget what you think you know about golf communities in Palm Beach: Upscale doesn’t have to mean old. “Families and young professionals have always been a big part of Mirasol,” says General Manager Matt Lambert. “Of our […]
Links Living: Boot Ranch
Deep in the heart of Texas is a community as big and bold as the state itself After designing the course, Hal Sutton said, “You can learn everything you need to know about the game of golf at Boot Ranch.” You can learn how to build a great golf community, too. Boot Ranch is five […]
Golf Growth Has Stabilized – And That is Good Enough
The game of golf at this moment is neither too big nor too small—it’s just right
Links Living: Wilderness Club
A scenic Faldo course is just one of the attractions of this family-friendly enclave in Big Sky Country Golf may be our biggest amenity, but it is not our only amenity,” explains Brian Ehlert, managing partner of Wilderness Club, which is located in the northwestern corner of Montana amid the Rocky Mountains and forests of […]
Links Living: Trilogy at Verde River
A new residential community is taking shape in northeast Scottsdale and golf, although the centerpiece, will be just one of many activities Popular as Scottsdale is, there hasn’t been a new community in the northeast corner of the “Valley of the Sun”—nestled against the three million acres of Tonto National Forest but only 20 minutes […]
Links Living: The Loxahatchee Club
Three decades after its debut, this cozy Palm Beach enclave remains one of the most desired golf memberships in Florida or anywhere else Since opening 30 years ago, The Loxahatchee Club—set on 340 acres in northern Palm Beach County—has been known as a golf-centric community. The Jack Nicklaus Signature course was Golf Digest’s “Best New […]
Equipment Review: Parsons Xtreme Golf
Given the sluggish state of the golf industry, you’d have to be very rich, an out-of-the-box thinker, and perhaps a bit crazy to start a club company now. Have you met Bob Parsons? The man who created GoDaddy.com in 1997 and is reportedly worth more than $2 billion launched PXG—for Parsons Xtreme Golf —last year with the […]