For only the second time in the 25 years of Golf Digest's biennial ranking, there is a new No. 1 golf course in the country. Augusta National Golf Club has taken over the top honors on Golf Digest's list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.
Ranked No. 2 on the 2009-2010 list, Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey dropped out of first place for only the second time ever and the first time since 2001 when Pebble Beach Golf Links overtook it. Pebble Beach ranks 6th on the 2009-2010 list and remains No. 1 in the ranking of the 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses, a title the course has held since the list's inception in 2003.
Home to a classic course annually listed as one of the world’s best and host of multiple U.S. Open championships, the state of New Jersey is no stranger to world-class golf venues.
Featuring more than a dozen upscale public golf courses, Atlantic City is adding another dimension to golf in the Garden State, bringing avid golfers from all over the country with the promise of unmatched “Stay and Play” opportunities.
Good golfers need to know plenty of numbers: yardage, par, rating, slope, and so on. But this summer, the only number golfers need to know to book an affordable and convenient golf getaway is the number nine. Why? Because it's the lucky number that keeps popping up in 2009 Stay & Play travel packages in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
Stay & Play packages are a turnkey way to visit the region since they feature all of the necessary components for a great golf trip: overnight accommodations at one of nine area hotels, breakfast, and 18 holes of golf with greens fee, cart and taxes at one of nine participating golf courses.
While golf courses have seemingly arisen like the mythological Phoenix throughout the Arizona desert giving golfers plenty of options to choose from, it’s often difficult to differentiate one desert layout from the next.
Trilogy Golf Club at Vistancia isn’t simply another Arizona golf course; it’s a completely unique golf experience in the Grand Canyon State. With tall and colorful indigenous grasses dotting the landscape, breathtaking panoramic vistas showcasing the area’s dramatic setting and rolling terrain, it’s no wonder Vistancia has had little trouble standing out among the crowd.
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - Head Golf Professional Sean Racki
simply and accurately depicted the location of Dancing Rabbit Golf Club as,
"Off the beaten path."
Depending on which direction you're heading, this
Mississippi golf club that has achieved national recognition but is still
somewhat shrouded in secrecy can be reached by taking a few roads less
traveled.
Traveling southbound on Mississippi Rt. 25 after leaving
Starkville, home to Mississippi State University, and eventually turning onto
Highway 15 further south to Philadelphia (and we're talking about the city
that's home to the Ham Jam Arts Festival and not the Liberty Bell here), there
isn't much to see.
After a 20-month, $15 million project to restore the golf
course and clubhouse to its former status and early 20th century
grandeur as a premier golf resort, the "new" Pines Lakes Country Club has
re-opened its doors.
In recent days Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc
introduced the golf course to South
Carolina dignitaries, media members and finally the
public on Saturday, March 14. Tom Turnbull of Longs, S.C., winner of the First
Foursome on Pine Lakes Sweepstakes, and his guests were the first public players
to tee off at Pine
Lakes.
Anyone who has played Pelican Hill Golf Club recently has experienced the difference that two years can make – and knows why Tom Fazio’s two 18-hole golf courses are a “must-play” on the Southern California coast.
The club was closed for two years to build a new clubhouse and practice facility and to allow Fazio to work his magic unhindered. The master returned to “re-perfect” the duo he created on the Newport Coast in the early 1990s, which already were among the nation’s most highly rated public courses. 18-hole Ocean Course South and 18-hole Ocean Course North returned to the world of golf in late 2007 more beautiful, playable and enjoyable than ever.
BEND, Ore. - The David McLay Kidd-designed Tetherow Golf Club in Bend, Oregon is set to open for the season on April 4, 2009. The visually striking Tetherow Golf Club is a par-72, 7,298-yard layout that was designed by the same world renowned architect who also designed Bandon Dunes and the new Castle Course, the seventh course at St. Andrews, Scotland.
Since opening in July 2008, Tetherow has been decorated with awards and accolades. Tetherow was honored by Golfweek as one of the Best New Courses for 2008, ranked as one the Top 10 New Courses in the country by Travel + Leisure Golf and recognized as one of Links Magazine's Premier Properties. In addition, Tetherow was also the very first course in Oregon to become a Certified Audubon International Signature Sanctuary by Audubon International. This signature certification is awarded only to new developments which are designed, constructed, and maintained according to Audubon International's precise planning standards and environmental disciplines.
In less than a decade Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has impressed
enough avid golfers to be mentioned in the same breath as iconic golf
destinations like Pebble Beach, Pinehurst and Kiawah Island. The resort is now
taking reservations for limited preview play on its highly anticipated fourth
offering, Old Macdonald.
While the full 18-hole course isn't set to open until June
1, 2010, it will be open to a limited number of guests that will be able to sample
the course on a 10-hole loop for a rate of $110. Only 32 players per day will
be allowed on the course from April 1 to October 1, 2009.
Pine Lakes Country Club is scheduled to re-open on March 14, 2009
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Fifty-one Myrtle Beach area golf
courses were showcased during last summer's World Amateur Handicap Championship
(Aug 25 - 29); Pine Lakes Country Club was not among them.
The historic course known affectionately as "The Granddaddy"
along the Grand Strand was in the final stages of an epic redesign that will
reposition the course among the very best in Myrtle Beach while maintaining the
integrity, character and tradition that make it so special.
High School Golf Captain to Prosthetics Philanthropist Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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Teacher of the Year Mike Bender Headlines West Michigan Golf Show Friday, 06 November 2009
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The reigning National Teacher of the Year, Mike Bender, will be on stage and provide free seminars at the 22nd West Michigan Golf Show to be held Feb. 12-14, 2010 at the DeVos... Full Story
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