Private courses have become available for play on Scottsdale golf vacations. Here's the scoop on whether you should play them.
There’s always plenty of interest in Scottsdale golf vacations, but seeing the “enthusiastic” galleries and party-like scene of this week’s Phoenix Open usually cranks things up.
So, in case you, too, have plans to visit the Valley of the Sun, I thought I’d tip you off about a couple previously private courses that are now available to you.
Now, you may have heard about these courses in other golf articles, but I’m not merely going to tell you their names and that you can play them.
I’m going to tell you whether you should. Read more →
Waialae Country Club hosts the Sony Open...and you, too, if you know this secret.
Here’s a great tip you can use the next time you’re traveling to or through Honolulu, Hawaii (often a required stop before puddle jumping to the other islands).
Only 15 minutes from the airport is Waialae Country Club, where the PGA Tour just finished playing the Sony Open.
I can’t tell you I watched the tournament, but I can tell you how to get on this private golf course, which was originally designed by Seth Raynor and Charles Banks.
So, want to play it the next time you’re in Honolulu?
Here’s exactly what to do. Read more →
Trying to score one of Muirfield's precious tee times? This may be your "inn."
I emailed you over the summer about Scotland’s Muirfield, reminding you to snatch up one of the few public tee times if you had interest in playing there next season.
See, as one of the 10 best golf courses (and overall golf experiences) in the entire world, these tee times are often booked solid a year in advance.
(I just checked Murfield’s online tee time page, and there’s virtually nothing available for this June, July, or August.)
There is, however, a new way to score precious Muirfield tee times, and you don’t need to be an early bird to do it. Read more →
New Hampshire's Wentworth-by-the-Sea resort is one of many attractive, but perhaps lesser-known spots for golf vacations.
We’re at the beginning of the end of summer, but there’s still plenty of time for a golf getaway or two, especially those that are easily accessible by car.
Here are three great ideas (for the East, Midwest, and West) that you may have never considered.
Even if you’ve finished your summer travels, trust me, you’re going to want to keep these beauties in your back pocket for next season. Read more →
Point Clear is a true "stop" on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
When it comes to Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, usually there’s only one goal in mind: to play as much of its high-quality, low-priced golf as humanly possible.
But what if you’re looking for a place to slow down and relax after a hard-charging road trip? Or, you simply want a different type of Trail experience, one that’s better suited to couples and families?
Well, if ever there was a Trail stop that could stand on its own as a resort destination where golf wasn’t the only, or even primary, attraction, this is it. Read more →
Here's how to play Coore/Crenshaw's new private course (at least through 2012) on your Pinehurst golf vacation.
By now you’re probably aware that Pinehurst No. 2 reopened following renovations and restoration work by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.
That’s enough to start thinking about taking a Pinehurst golf vacation.
But there’s something else you should know.
Coore and Crenshaw’s first original design in the state of North Carolina opened last spring only five miles from the Village of Pinehurst, and, as expected, it’s a good one.
Now, the course is private, but here’s how you can play it on your Pinehurst golf vacation. Read more →
Savvy golfers can often play the private, Cottonwood Valley course on their Dallas golf vacations (photo courtesy Four Seasons Resort Dallas at Las Colinas.)
If you follow the coverage of this week’s PGA Tour event in Dallas, Texas (The HP Byron Nelson Championship), you’re obviously going to see and hear a lot about the host course: the TPC Las Colinas, part of the Four Seasons Resort Dallas at Las Colinas.
What you probably won’t hear much, if anything, about is the Cottonwood Valley Golf Course located just across the street.
You won’t hear about this Jay Morrish design (which was part of the Nelson Tournament mix until 2008) because it’s private, but if you find yourself traveling to, or through, the “Big D,” and want to play this very good course, here’s how to do it.
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Bermuda golf vacations can include the private, C.B Macdonald-designed Mid Ocean Club...if you stay at the right hotel.
Want to play one of the world’s top-100 courses and cross it off your bucket list?
This one is located on a beautiful island in the Caribbean, it was designed by the father of American golf course architecture….and it’s private.
But that’s not going to stop you.
Armed with the following secret, you’re going to waltz right in.
And with the even juicier tidbit I just learned — the super secret, if you will — you’re going to do it ahead of everyone else. Read more →
