Top Tour Courses You Can Play
Course: Sea Island Resort (Seaside) Location: St. Simons, Ga. Event: The McGladrey Classic This Tom Fazio design (from an Alison/Colt original) is a links-like layout along the Intracoastal Waterway punctuated by distinctive dunes and arresting views. Course: Kapalua Resort (Plantation) Location: Maui, Hawaii Event: Hyundai Tournament of Champions This majestic Coore/Crenshaw design, with its jaw-dropping views of […]
Look West for the Best in Golf
The majesty of the Western landscape is reason enough to embark on an unforgettable golf trip—or fall head over heels for a destination and make it a second or primary home. But our lineup of favorites features amenities and activities that go well beyond sensational courses and Instagram-worthy vistas. From wine lockers and local culinary […]
The Top 10 Summer Golf Resorts
Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, is upon us. With the temperate zone of North America basking in the year’s best weather over the next three months, now is the time to plan a trip to an eclectic, exceptional resort where everyone, from serious golfers and casual enthusiasts to kids who just want to […]
A Ranking of the Best States in Golf
Somewhat surprisingly, there has never been a 1–50 ranking of the best states in golf. Of course, when something hasn’t been done, there’s often a good reason and, in this case, it was the conundrum, “How do you define best?” Ultimately, the answer came down to one elusive word: golfiness.
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 […]
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
When you think of Arizona and golf, you usually think of Phoenix/Scottsdale. Tucson typically gets overlooked, which is a shame since there are a number of fine resorts there, including The Westin La Paloma and Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Loews Ventana Canyon is another of Tucson’s finest and definitely worth considering for your next golf trip. The stay is very good, but the play is even better.
Stay and Play Golf in Colonial Williamsburg
Congress should pass a law that every American school child—and probably most adults, as well—visit Colonial Williamsburg. The capital of the Virginia Colony, restored with stunning accuracy to how it was just before the Revolution, is a living, breathing museum bursting with the latest technology circa 1770. Tinsmiths, scullery maids, apothecaries, peruke makers, printers, tavern keepers, and politicians—loyalists as well as rebels—do their thing exactly as it was done some 250 years ago in the Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia, a few hours south of what is now but wasn’t yet then the nation’s capital.
A Golf Vacation in Asheville
From this vow rose the plaintive title of Wolfe’s final novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, published two years after the author’s death in 1940. Reflections on Wolfe and on my own Carolina boyhood in Greensboro came sweeping back last autumn as I made an impulsive overnight drive toward Asheville—where I had not set foot in nearly 40 years—to try and wring some solace from the last days of the golf season up in the Ridge.
Pete Dye’s Renovation of The Ford Field & River Club
Thirty years after The Ford Plantation course opened, Pete Dye returns to the community near Savannah to perform a major overhaul
Elk River Club Renovation
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this Golden Bear design takes you on a beautiful journey in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina
