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Emerald Dunes Golf Club

A recent renovation has made the course, a true south Florida landmark, better than ever. What hasn’t changed are the club’s unique membership benefits and its ability to offer refuge from the outside world.

Frugal Golfer: Orlando

There are roughly 80 daily-fee or resort courses of note within a 40-mile radius of Orlando International Airport, and competition for your dollar is fierce. Combine that with a vast array of equally competitive hotels and condos, attractive car rental rates, and 800 flights a day and you have all the ingredients for a wallet-friendly golf trip.

Radrick Farms

Back when a college job meant flipping burgers, I stumbled onto an offer I couldn’t rightly refuse: manning the pro shop at Radrick Farms, the University of Michigan’s faculty/staff golf course. A close audit might reveal the disappearance of a number of beers and a few ham sandwiches during my tenure, yet miraculously the operation […]

The Top 10 Unluckiest Holes in Golf

Golfers are by nature superstitious, and with reason. Their fortunes are tied to lucky (or unlucky) outcomes. Rub of the green rules the game. But there are some holes that seem to consistently bring players to grief. Augusta National, Augusta, Ga. | No. 15, par five, 530 yards You’ve finagled an invitation to Augusta National, […]

Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand

Set high above the Pacific Ocean in New Zealand, this Tom Doak design converges nature and sport like few other courses

Where to Play Golf on Your Florida Vacation

Golf is a game of history. So every golfer should know that long before shepherds were knocking featheries around Scottish linksland, Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida with soldiers, pigs, a priest and new irons.

The Top 10 Female Golf Course Architects

Ida Dixon Very likely the first woman architect in the U.S. (if not the world), Dixon is responsible for Springhaven Club, a private club in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, that opened in 1904. Dixon also was president of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia from 1911-16, which has held a tournament in her honor since 1917. Among […]

The Top 10 Most Underrated Courses in Florida

The Breakers (Rees Jones Course) Palm Beach Located 10 miles west of the famed Gilded Age seaside resort and light years beyond the antique 18-holer that encircles the hotel, this solid, straightforward layout, superimposed by Rees Jones onto a pre-existing 1968 venue, is beautifully framed by palms, oaks, and pines, with five acres of water […]

48 Hours in Palm Beach, Fla.

The PGA Tour starts its Florida Swing this week with the pros teeing it near this gilded enclave known for its mansions, beaches, and shopping