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Vacations For Veterans seeks to provide Purple Heart Medal recipients from the Iraq and Afghanistan Campaigns with a week of free lodgings donated by vacation homeowners.
Wounded veterans face new challenges: readjusting,
rebuilding their lives, and reconnecting with their families. For many of our
wounded veterans, time away to rejuvenate is a luxury that is often
unattainable and unaffordable.
When you make
a donation of time at your vacation home, or a donation of money to sponsor a
veteran, you give our wounded veterans a brief respite when they need it most.
You make entire families feel better through your generosity.
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PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. -- home of the PGA Tour's Honda Classic -- has been honored with inclusion in Golf World's 2012 "100 Best Golf Shops" for its continuing retail and service excellence.
Recently renovated as part of a $65 million comprehensive revitalization to the legendary South Florida destination, the 2,200-square-foot golf shop services four onsite resort and championship courses. Enhancements included a new check-in site for its private members plus a décor makeover highlighted by modern granite counter space, eye-pleasing carpeting, subdued lighting and abundant room for product displays and customer browsing.
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Edwin Watts Golf Shops, LLC, (EWGS) one of the world's largest specialty golf retailers, recently announced the re-launch of  www.edwinwattsgolf.com. With seamless navigation and a breadth of interactive features, the new-look e-commerce website offers online shoppers a turnkey shopping solution.
The new website showcases a breadth of product offerings from golf's leading equipment manufacturers, while the enhanced functionality provides online shoppers with the same great shopping experience synonymous with an in-store retail visit. With effortless navigation golfers can quickly take advantage of the Today's Deals section (highlighting spectacular deals on a wide selection of products), sign up for the LoyalTee program, tune in to the popular GOLFBETTER Podcast each week, experience a golf lesson in the Golf Tips section, and much more.
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 Edwin Watts Golf Shops, LLC, one of the world's largest specialty golf retailers with over 90 retail locations, today announced that their Concord, N.C., store and their Miami-Doral, Fla., location, have each been recognized by Golf World magazine as two of America's 100 Best Golf Shops for the second consecutive year.
The annual 100 Best list is divided into four categories: private, resort, public and off-course, with 25 shops from each category earning recognition. The shops are judged by the Association of Golf Merchandisers and Golf World senior editor Michael Johnson on the following criteria: shop revenue in correlation to the shop's physical size and rounds played at the facility; appearance of layout and product displays; and evaluation of successful promotions and initiatives the shop conducted over the past year.
"The teams at our Concord and Miami-Doral stores continually perform at the highest level and to be recognized as two of the top 25 off-course retail shops in the country - for two consecutive years - is an incredible achievement," said John Watson, CEO, Edwin Watts Golf Shops. "We commend the management and the store associates at these locations for their dedication to our Company's philosophy of ensuring that every consumer who enters one of our stores has a positive experience."
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In an exclusive interview for Golfer’s Guide, Davis Love III talks about the
Heritage Classic, his own Sea Island tournament, golf course architecture,
the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah and his new Ryder Cup job..
Brad King: As a five-time Heritage Classic champion
at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head,
you are now hosting a tournament [The McGladrey
Classic] at a resort destination [Sea Island, Georgia]
just a couple of hours down the road. Do you think
your ties with a new PGA TOUR event will affect
your relationship with the Heritage?
Davis Love III: The Heritage will always
be special to my family and me. We are trying
to build on the success and the feel of the Heritage
and have another event that is a favorite
of the players and their families, and show
that the Southeast coast from The Heritage to
The Players is a world-class golf destination.
It works out great that our event is in the fall,
opposite the Heritage’s spring date. It provides
another opportunity for golf fans in the
Lowcountry to be able to see and enjoy great
golf in person.
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Remember the drama of the 1991 Ryder Cup? Well, a whole new
generation of the game’s elite will take to the stage this time in
the first Big Four major championship ever played in South
Carolina.
Joining the gallery or watching the tournament on TV this summer
will be exciting, but here’s an even better idea: Take advantage
of Kiawah’s winter rates now to book your own tee time on
The Ocean Course and a night or two at The Sanctuary, the resort’s
world-class oceanfront hotel. Treat your partner to an afternoon
at the spa and a romantic sunset dinner and you’ll both leave
Kiawah feeling like champions.
The Sanctuary
Arriving at The Sanctuary through a tunnel of live oaks, the hotel itself is
nearly invisible because of all those trees and that’s just what the architects
intended: Your first impression is a “Wow” as you walk through the doors.
The Sanctuary’s grand entrance hall is as good as it gets: the multistory
atrium abounds in light and space as your wide-open eyes are directed
through gigantic windows above a football-field-size manicured
lawn and over the sand dunes to the ocean breakers beyond. How this
unique setting was created is remarkable:
First, more than 400 trees, including 160 Live Oaks at least 50 feet tall,
were dug up by the world’s largest mechanical spade and transported to
a nearby farm. Big loads of fill dirt were imported to raise the site to 21
feet above sea level. Having rejected all futuristic designs of glass and steel,
construction began on a Charleston-style hotel of glass and brick and
wood and stucco, with slate-tile shingles on the roof and intricate details
in copper and iron everywhere. Then all of those hundreds of well-caredfor
trees were returned and replanted on the site with the loss of only a
single palmetto.
The result is a graceful double-winged luxury hotel that’s impressive
without being imposing, spectacular without being pretentious and ultramodern
in amenities without being at all “new” in appearance. Which
makes The Sanctuary the perfect fit for a resort where great architecture is
important—inside and out.
The Ocean Course
Five brilliant golf designers have built five outstanding courses at Kiawah,
including The Ocean Course, the same one that hosted the memorable
Ryder Cup—except that it’s really not. Nor is it the same course that
architect Pete Dye originally planned. Nor is it exactly the same today as it
will be tomorrow. And that’s part of its greatness.
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With a glowing review on Cybergolf.com and a segment on Good Day New York on Monday, Two Good Rounds is off to a running start! Author Elisa Gaudet celebrated the book’s launch at Golfsmith in Manhattan Tuesday night with 260 guests in attendance, including former New York Giants Defensive Back Perry Williams. Guests enjoyed many of the drinks the PGA Tour pros listed as their favorites including Arnold Palmer’s favorite Ketel One on the rocks and Arizona’s Arnold Palmer ice tea, Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell’s favorite Guinness, and Jim Furyk and Chi Chi Rodriguez’s favorite Johnnie Walker. This red carpet affair converted the 54th street Golfsmith into a cocktail lounge complete with a live Sinatra singer and old black and white photos of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones.
Great for a holiday gift, Two Good Rounds – 19th Hole Stories from the World’s Greatest Golfers, (a round of golf and a round of drinks) combines golf, cocktails and 19th hole stories from 36 of the top PGA Tour Pro golfers. From a cold Heineken at The Tap Room at Pebble Beach Lodge in Pebble Beach, California, to a smooth Ketel One at the Royal Birkdale Club in England, or a fine wine at the Partridge Inn in Augusta, Georgia, Two Good Rounds (December 2011) is an international tribute to golfers and golf lifestyle off the course.
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20th Anniversary Season a Platinum Experience
Platinum is the modern gift for someone’s 20th anniversary, but there’s no need to bring a fancy platinum bauble, or even a  platinum card, to Westchase Golf Club during their 20th anniversary season. Just bring your appetite for a golf experience that the National Golf Foundation has honored with its prestigious CLASP (Customer Loyalty and Satisfaction Program) award, ranking the course #1 in the golf-crazed state of Florida and in the Top 10 nationally, earned through the personal attention to every player, every group, every outing that graces the Lloyd Clifton design with its presence. That loyalty cuts both ways and comes from the top down. The course’s general manager, Clay Thomas, has spent nearly half his life at Westchase. And Superintendent Gene Roberts actually helped build the layout from the ground up, caring for it since its opening in late 1992. You’re not just visiting a golf course, you’re being hosted by the “family” of Westchase.
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Believe it, It's Un-Believable
 "Unbelievable" best describes the overall appearance and
atmosphere at Madison Green Golf Club (a.k.a. - The Links at Madison Green).
The vision statement reads: "We will create a high-end golf club
the public can enjoy with the amenities of a private club at a value price.
With a slight name adjustment, the opening of a new restaurant,
lounge, bar, an outside patio, a new pro shop and locker rooms, there's a lot
more to Madison Green Golf Club than ever before.
The 18-hole championship course designed by John Sanford has
received numerous accolades. Florida
Golf Magazine hailed the
course as the "Best New Public Course" in West Palm Beach County in 2002,
citing excellent course conditions and service. Independent raters and readers
have the course consistently listed among the top 20 in Florida on Golflink.com, and Golf
Digest gives Madison Green Golf Club 4.8 out of 5
stars while including it among its "Best Places to Play" the past three years.
Many of the changes are subtle, such as
maintenance to a course already known as one of the finest in all of South
Florida. But, other changes will create in-your-face excitement.
Golfers marvel at the new state-of-the-art
GPS system mounted on the course's brand new fleet of Club Car golf carts. The
3-D graphics are amazing and the voice-activated instruction upon arrival to
the tee box provides a "caddy in the cart."
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Here are the winners of the Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout 2011 at the Ritz Carlton Tiburon Resort in Naples Florida.
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