Stowe Mountain Club is one of the private golf courses available for play on Stowe, Vermont golf vacations.
Here’s something shocking that I didn’t know yesterday: Stowe, Vermont, one of the most popular ski destinations on the East Coast, actually receives three times more visitors in summer than in winter.
And with the news that the editors of Golf Odyssey recently revealed, you may want to join them this year.
While researching where to play on Stowe, Vermont golf vacations, the editors noted that you can play three private golf courses just by staying at certain hotels and resorts.
“The boldest and most exclusive of the three,” say the editors, is the Stowe Mountain Club, a 2007 Bob Cupp design at the Stowe Mountain Resort, which was recently offered for sale by AIG. Yes, that AIG.
Who knows what a change in ownership may bring, but for now, non-member access to the Stowe Mountain Club is limited to guests of the new Stowe Mountain Lodge, a comfortable and aesthetically pleasing property, but nonetheless hampered by operational and service glitches, at least during the editors’ recent undercover inspection.
Is it worth putting up with these snafus to play the Stowe Mountain Club? If you enjoy sporty, mountain golf, and you like being “taken care of,” by a doting staff on a golf vacation, the answer is a resounding “yes.”
Said the editors: “The course clings to the mountainside and sports jaw-dropping views…No expense was spared in construction…the fairways are like velvet and the greens immaculate…Stowe Mountain Club delivers a posh, private club experience…we were impressed by the staff’s attentiveness throughout the day.”
By the way, the resort’s other course, the Stowe Country Club, is skip-able, say the editors, especially when compared to the two other private courses you can play on a Stowe, Vermont golf vacation, one by Jack Nicklaus/Jack Nicklaus II, and one by Graham Cooke.
You can find out where they are and how you can play them in the June 2009 issue of Golf Odyssey. If you’re not already a Golf odyssey subscriber, you can get instant access to this issue (and, for a limited time, the entire archive of back issues, which is full of summer golf vacation ideas) just by taking a free trial. There is absolutely no risk or obligation to subscribe.
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