When is Your Golf Course Ready for a Renovation?

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Your course’s renovation clock is running. It’s not a matter of if, but when. To the untrained eye, nothing looked out of place in 2018 at Reynolds Lake Oconee’s Great Waters, a lakeside stunner designed in 1992 by Jack Nicklaus. Beauty can fade, however. So can infrastructure. It was time for a facelift. “Every golf […]

LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 100: Golf Resort to Know—PGA National

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Digital Editor Al Lunsford is joined by LINKS contributor Shaun Tolson to talk about Shaun’s 2022 print series on “5 Reasons to Love” some of the country’s top golf resorts. The hosts answer the “Teed-up Topic of the Week” and discuss who would be in their dream golf foursome. Afterwards, they talk about the golf […]

9 Notable International Golf Course Openings for 2022

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Golf is a truly global game, with around 38,000 courses in more than 200 countries worldwide. There are also hundreds of development projects in the works, from Australia to Vietnam. Many are sure to appeal to golfers with wanderlust that extends beyond the golf-rich U.S. market. Following are nine scheduled course openings, from nine different […]

Graeme McDowell: At Home at Lake Nona

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Not only does Graeme McDowell live at Lake Nona outside Orlando, he co-owns a popular local hangout where everybody definitely knows his name First there was a honk. Not the New York City cabbie lean-on-the-horn that blares, “Hey, move it or lose it!” but rather a quick tap meant to grab one’s attention accompanied by […]

Professional Golfers with Their Own Wine Brands

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Many a golf pro has put their name on a bottle of wine. Only a few have put their heart and soul into creating truly special vintages. Greg Norman enjoyed a vintage year in 1995. The Great White Shark captured three tournament titles, carded the Tour’s best scoring average, topped the annual—and career—money lists, and […]

LINKS Golf Podcast Ep. 99: Best of Arizona Golf

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Digital Editor Al Lunsford chats with Joe Passov—a resident of Arizona—who has played over 200 golf courses in the Grand Canyon State. The duo discuss where one must play on a dream trip to Scottsdale, Arizona’s other top golf cities, and off-course items one should add to their itinerary. The hosts also start the episode […]

Seve Golf Trail: A Travel Route Commemorating the Spanish Legend

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As bucket-list golf trips across the pond are concerned, Spain deserves your attention as a superlative destination, one that can rival the United Kingdom and Ireland in terms of quality courses (though it can’t quite compete with the British Isles on the sheer number of exceptional courses to play). That said, what Spain lacks in […]