5 Faraway Places on My Golf Travel Wish List
These days it’s easy to dream about our next worldly golf adventures. In my home country of Canada we have a ton of great golf, but during these times I want what I can’t have. I want to get on a big airplane and go somewhere I’ve never been to explore, experience, and play. With […]
Advice from the Architects: How to Approach a Trip to Bandon Dunes
Over the past two decades, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has built quite a base of loyalists—some of whom return for a buddies’ trip every single year. But the ever-growing golf destination on the Oregon coast also continues to expand its fanbase with first-timers eager for a remote escape and a taste of authentic links golf […]
Northwest Ireland: The Emerald Isle’s Wild Card
Want an adventure in links golf at its full-blown, brawny best? Make your way to the Northwest Corner of the Emerald Isle. If you were to jump into a dinghy—with your clubs, of course—and row across the sea to Ireland, your nearest place to set ashore would be the wild and windswept Mullet Peninsula in […]
Amid Coronavirus Chaos, How Are Golf Travel Operators Coping?
Every other month, international golf tour provider PerryGolf conducts a 30-minute webinar for potential customers on a different destination or topic, from Scotland and South Africa to cruises or escorted trips. It’s more of an educational opportunity than a sales pitch, explaining their planning and process. Their webinar topic for this month—before a national emergency […]
A Guide to Ireland’s 10 Best 19th Holes
There’s luck—and then there’s the luck of the Irish, who can enjoy spectacular golf daily just minutes from their doorsteps and famed pubs within crawling distance of almost every 18th green. With the help of the experts at luxury golf tour operator PerryGolf and their concierge driver team at Kennedy Coaches, I’ve put together a […]
Consummate Cabo
Let me start by giving Cabo the ultimate compliment: I’d go even if there were no golf. I’d go for the resorts, dining, water sports, whale watching and deep-sea fishing, culture and history, nightlife (both touristy and authentic), beaches, and the weather. Especially the weather. Even without clubs, you’ll have a wonderful time. Add golf and Cabo is a […]
An Update on Cabot from Ben Cowan-Dewar
The year 2019 marked 15 years since Ben Cowan-Dewar first stepped foot on the land that would turn into both Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs. Since then (Links opened in 2011 while Cliffs opened in 2015) the double-dip on Canada’s east coast has become one of the most celebrated golf facilities in the country, while […]
The Evolution of The Broadmoor and Sea Island
In 2011, billionaire Phillip Anschutz achieved a lifetime dream when he purchased The Broadmoor, the sportsman’s paradise on the southwestern edge of Colorado Springs and the longest-running consecutive recipient of AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes Five-Star honors. “I started coming here when I was five,” Anschutz told Forbes in 2016. “And when I was 10, I was sitting in […]
Smooth Sailing: Golf Cruises
A few years ago, my non-golfing wife and I took a golf cruise that started in Lisbon and ended in Barcelona, along the way sailing in the Mediterranean and playing a handful of great courses. While I went around Valderrama, she went on a guided tour of Gibraltar; as the golfers enjoyed El Saler, the […]
Iceland Golf is HOT
Tourism to America’s nearest European neighbor, Iceland, has more than doubled in the last decade and one of the best reasons to go there is the golf Had you been a fly on the wall of the restaurant I visited a few months back, you would have overheard one of the more bizarre exchanges a […]
