Wisconsin's Bull at Pinehurst Farms is an example of a great public course that offers discounted, reciprocal rates by playing affiliated courses in the area.
If you’re familiar with the term “reciprocal agreement,” you probably know it as the professional courtesy among private golf courses that allows members of Private Course A to play at Private Course B, and vice versa.
What you might not know is that many public golf courses have reciprocal agreements, too, and as illustrated in the September 2009 issue of Golf Odyssey, the savings they offer can help you craft high-quality, discount golf vacations at savings of up to 50 percent or more. Read more →
After my post about The Golden Passport to New England Golf, many of you asked if there were similar passbooks offering discount golf vacations and reduced green fees in other areas of the country.
The answer is yes, but I haven’t been impressed by many.
Here’s an exception that you might want to look into: Player’s Pass, which, for a nominal fee, provides deep discounts at hundreds of good-to-excellent golf courses nationwide. Read more →
Two days ago, the Boston Globe published an article containing several golf vacation packages that I thought you might be interested in.
Here are the ones I found most compelling because of where they are, the courses you can play, and the prices at which you can play them: Read more →
Today’s tip explains how you can play free golf (and I mean totally free) at some of the top daily-fee golf courses in New England.
You know those discount golf passes and coupon books that seem to be everywhere? I have inspected dozens of them, but most suffer from three major problems: a lack of quality courses, ridiculous restrictions on when you can play, and “savings” that don’t really amount to much.
But not this one. Read more →
Old Greenwood is one of courses you can play at a discount on a Lake Tahoe golf vacation.
If you have ever considered a Lake Tahoe golf vacation, now might be the time to take it.
Over the weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle ran an article online entitled, “Prices Discounted at Lake Tahoe Golf Courses,” and it included a few good money-saving tidbits.
You can find the full article here, but below are the items that I found most interesting. Read more →
Pound Ridge Golf Club is one of the newest courses to play on a New York golf vacation.
I just heard that Pound Ridge Golf Club (poundridgegolf.com), the new public Pete Dye creation located an hour north of New York City, is discounting its peak green fee by nearly 20 percent.
This brings it down, yes, down, to $195 before 3 pm.
Owned by Ken Wang, Jr., the brother of famous fashion designer Vera Wang, the course is Dye’s first in New York State and, mainly due to environmental constraints, it took more than a decade and $40 million to complete.
The question is…is the final product, which takes dead aim at the area’s many top-tier private courses (and heralded as one of the best of the year by nearly all the major golf magazines) really worth nearly $200 to play on a New York golf vacation? Read more →
Even top resorts like Kiawah Island are offering unlimited golf vacations.
“Unlimited golf” vacations are nothing new, but thanks in part to the weak economy, even some of America’s best courses and classiest resorts are offering golf’s version of the all-you-can-eat buffet.
Yes, even resort icons like Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Kiawah Island, Sea Island, and the Greenbrier are offering unlimited golf vacation packages. In fact, I’ve wanted to publish a tip about this for several weeks now, but the list of deals kept getting bigger and the quality of the venues kept getting better. Some have expiration dates approaching, so I couldn’t hold off any longer. Read more →
Lower prices at top venues such as Ballybunion, above, are making Ireland golf vacation packages extremely attractive.
In the January 2009 issue, Golf Odyssey tipped readers off about one of the best bargain regions to visit when taking Ireland golf vacations.
This region boasts a trio of fantastic golf courses, and Golf Odyssey’s editors proclaimed, “each is a jewel, more highly polished now than ever, and each can be played for an average weekday green fee of only $66.” Read more →
