Travel – Florida
Planning the perfect family vacation is often an exercise in compromise or the art of the deal, as one former president once wrote. But it’s hard to go wrong in the North Florida haven of Hammock Beach, the history of St. Augustine and, of course, a nearby side trip to Orlando and Mickey Mouse. Enough to keep everyone happy and …
Travel – Bahamas Bliss
When you use the term “royal blue” with the ever-scenic Caribbean, it can mean a lot of different things. It can certainly refer to the sky and the weather, which are blue and full of sunshine for a vast majority of the year. It can also refer to the Atlantic Ocean waters that lap up to the shores of this …
Travel – Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta
The idea of first-class golf facilities, lodging and scenery all rolled into an amazing beach resort is hardly a new travel concept. But the new and ever-growing PGA TOUR site, Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta, takes it to a whole new level. Opened in 1997, Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta is a 2,500-acre property on a mile of beach land is home to more …
Travel – Northern California
When it came time to pick a college home, Tiger Woods, who hasn’t always made the best life choices (that’s a whole other story) did just fine by picking the lush, golf-rich environment of Northern California and nearby Stanford University. Perhaps outside of Long Island, New York, or maybe Philadelphia, there is no better concentration of great golf courses than …
Feature – Fred Perpall
Longtime Dallasite Fred Perpall achieved a couple of impressive firsts when he recently was elected to a three-year term as President of the United States Golf Association, which oversees amateur and some professional golf in the United States. He became the first Black ever elected at president of the USGA, as well as the first Texan, both distinctions he considers …
Travel – Quivira
When you have one of the most popular and successful golf courses in this target-rich links environment on the Pacific tip of Mexico, designed by one of the most popular architects, what’s the only thing you can do to improve? Build a second one, like the first, by Jack Nicklaus. That’s exactly the plan for the spectacular Quivira Golf Club …
Travel – Houston
While the PGA Frisco project looms large on the North Texas golf horizon, the Houston area also has been busy by adding three new public golf options, with Tour 18 Incorporated’s Highland Pines, the par-3 East River 9, and a modern putting course, PopStroke, designed by Tiger Woods and his design team. All three projects have opened over the last …
Travel – Northern Majesty
Golf in the target-rich environment of Canada is known for spectacular views, lots of on-course wildlife and famous course layouts by famous designers. As the saying applies here, though, it’s a great season, but a short season. Translated, Canada, known as the Great White North for a reason, is under a blanket of snow and ice for much of the …
Feature – Welcome Home, Paul!
When English author Thomas Hardy penned his famous book in the 1870s, ‘Return of the Native,’ there was no golf involved, focusing on romance and drama instead, but when the PGA of America found its new Director of Golf at its new 36-hole public facility in Frisco, they very much turned to a Lone Star native, returning to his North …
Travel – Luck of the Irish
To know Ireland golf is to know truly authentic and wonderful links golf, stunning scenery, quaint and charming villages, interesting (to say the least} weather, and a buddies’ golf trip you’ll remember forever. But if all you know is Ireland golf, then you will have missed out on a great deal of this most interesting destination. If all you know …