From St. Anne’s to Royal Liverpool: England’s Golf Coast
It’s a bit fresh today,” a member said cheerfully, referring to the wind. (My transcription of his remark is based partly on lip-reading: the gale made hearing unreliable.) The course we were playing—St. Annes Old Links, on the Lancashire coast in northwestern England—has a few small water hazards, of which the largest is smaller than […]
The Ultimate Washington, D.C. Golf Vacation
The Nation’s Capital and its surrounding suburbs are not usually thought of as a golf destination, a major mistake for anyone also coming to town to visit the museums, monuments, and major power points of the federal government. The Washington area has a rich golf history. Congressional Country Club in Potomac, Md., has staged three […]
What’s the Best Vacation Spot for Your Golf Game?
By James A. Frank You toil hard to earn yourself a little vacation time with your clubs. You book the flights, hotel, rental car, and tee times, excited to play a highly ranked course. But you quickly discover your game is ill-suited to the layout, and instead of having fun, you toil some more, growing […]
Frugal Golfer: Prince Edward Island
By George Peper It’s Myrtle Beach with a maple leaf. With more than two dozen golf courses, all within 45 minutes of one another and charging green fees under $100, Prince Edward Island is the Frugal Golfer’s Canadian oasis. Due east of Maine, just north of Nova Scotia, Canada’s smallest province (about twice the size […]
The Ultimate San Diego Golf Vacation
By David Weiss San Diego is coming of age quite gracefully, graduating from swabbies and flip-flops to Jimmy Choos and start-ups in what seems like the blink of an eye. Gone are the downtown days of soup kitchens and thrift shops. The Gaslamp Quarter—version 2.0—is now home to income-disposing millennials in search of the perfect […]
Mix a Golf Tune-Up Vacation with Baseball Spring Training
For the golfer who’s also a major league baseball fan, the dream vacation is one that combines the two. There’s no better time to do that than right now, mixing your pre-season tune-up with spring training. You have two options—the Grapefruit League in Florida and the Cactus League in Arizona, with 15 major-league teams based […]
Best Travel Apps
By Graylyn Loomis Thanks to apps and smartphones, it’s never been easier to travel anywhere in the world and experience it like a local. From the millions of apps available in the iTunes and Android stores, we’ve selected the dozen or so that will make your traveling—for golf or otherwise—easier and listed them on the […]
Top 10 English Golf Courses
Golf in England is about much more than four Open Championship venues, although they all make the list of the country’s best courses. The others may not be quite as big, but all 10 are outstanding layouts with proud histories that go back a century and more. Here is our top 10 golf courses in […]
How to Pack for a Golf Trip
There’s travel—and then there’s golf travel. Besides bringing clubs, shoes, balls, and other gear, we have to figure out the clothes. A weekend trip to the desert is easy—shirts, shorts, sunscreen. But if you’re off for more than three or four days, or to a part of the globe where the weather can be fickle […]
Playing Trump Turnberry After its Major Renovation
By Graylyn Loomis When Turnberry opened in 1901 it was heralded as one of Scotland’s best new links courses. Sadly, a few decades later the course was closed and flattened during the first and second World Wars to create a large airfield for Royal Air Force training. In 1950 the course was reopened after a […]
