A 5-Course Golf Road Trip Around Atlanta
For golfers, Atlanta conjures one name—Bobby Jones—and the hometown hero has deep roots within the local public golf scene 5 Courses 162 Miles $168-$297 Bobby Jones Golf Course, built in 1932 as the city’s first 18-hole public track, has carried The Emperor’s name since its founding, but the quality and condition of the course never […]
A Golf Trip Around Washington, D.C.
The nation’s capital has enacted some capital golf, from center city to the lush surrounding hinterlands Golf has long been popular in and around Washington, D.C., for locals and lawmakers alike. A hundred years ago, it was mostly private clubs and there are still plenty left, including several presidential playgrounds. (If you think Donald Trump […]
Top 10 Golf Trip Drives for 2021
Road trip. Two ordinary words that conjure up visions of adventure by the mile and new discoveries at every turn. Is there a golfer anywhere who wouldn’t like to be loading up his or her clubs and hitting the road right now with a significant other or a bunch of friends? I know I would. […]
A Year-Long Golf Road Trip—Patrick Koenig
Pulled over on the side of a lonely stretch of road in North Dakota, with twinkling stars overhead, Patrick Koenig swatted a dozen or so golf balls into the darkness from the makeshift driving range atop his RV. Make that his RGV: recreational golf vehicle. You might think playing close to 450 rounds at 405 […]
A Dream Southwest U.S. Golf Road Trip
When my parents moved from the East Coast to the Monterey Peninsula several decades ago, it opened up a new golf frontier for me, spurring several golf trips in and around 17-Mile Drive and the Carmel Valley. More recently, they bought a new home in the Southwest, on the outer fringes of the ever-expanding Phoenix/Scottsdale […]
The Dream California Golf Road Trip
Highway 1. The Pacific Coast Highway. The famous road along the California coast goes by different names depending on where you are in the state. But in Northern California, where I recently spent a week, it’s Highway 1. The last time I drove from San Francisco to Carmel, I left at 3:30 in the morning […]
An Epic California Golf Road Trip
It’s approaching high noon, and it’s clear that the upcoming duel will be severely one-sided. It’s me against U.S. Open host Torrey Pines South, and a couple of minutes before my 12:00 p.m. tee time, the starter says the rough is a healthy five inches and even locating balls is problematic.
