Travel – Terranea

One may not travel specifically for the purpose of playing 1,300 yards of golf. And yet, the golf grounds at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. are far from your typical short course. Situated oceanside on the Palos Verdes Peninsula cliffs overlooking the Pacific and Catalina Island beyond, the par-3 pleasures across the nine-hole […]

Travel – Coeur d’Alene

Modest in populace, Northern Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene spreads wide from water to wilderness to wedges. From mid-spring through mid-autumn, the all-seasons activity hub of just 55,000 residents finds ample mountain bounty via a spread of visitors seeking sizzle solace from Southern California, Arizona, Texas and points beyond. With 27-mile-long Lake Coeur d’Alene serving as playground […]

Travel – Vancouver Island Golf Trail

The westernmost part of Canada is closer than you think. Vancouver Island – situated between the respective U.S. and Canadian landmasses – proves its country’s warmest region, a tenet which translates to Canada’s most diverse playground. Across an island on which one can literally ski, surf, golf and fish – all in the same day […]

Travel – Black Desert Resort

For a destination long reputed for its national park play, the Red-Rocked canvass of southern Utah is living a visitor script flip in real time.  Since the stated 2023 debut of Black Desert Resort (Ivins, Utah), the region is now more apt to see travelers arriving with Titleists, instead of off-road tires, and soft spikes, […]

Travel – Idaho

Sometimes, out-of-the-way is the best way. Opened to national raves in 2005, Osprey Meadows at Tamarack Resort in the mountain and meadow bounty of west-central Idaho’s Valley County would enjoy a buoyant, but brief debut. After a quick trip in the spotlight, the 3,600-acre resort property’s ill-timed unveiling amid national economic downtown would see the […]

Travel – Big Cedar Lodge

Long known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” Branson, Missouri, with its ceaseless marque of family-style shows, has adjoined with a burgeoning playing partner to redefine the region amid the heart of the Ozarks.  (And no, it’s not Jason Bateman, whose acclaimed Netflix series was set 120 miles northeast, in Lake of the […]

Travel – Brainerd Lakes

For the golf destination traveler, the compass continues to point north. For players making a run toward the upper border: Cut between Nebraska’s sandhills to the west and the Ozark’s rocky outcrops to the east; as the terrain transitions from Iowa’s heartlands and Wisconsin’s canvass of stream cities and railroad towns to the Land of […]

Travel – Fresh Vintage

This probably isn’t the Southern California pictured in your mind. It’s better. Rolling, rustic and verdant, SoCal’s all-seasons Temecula Valley is on the rise for travelers seeking a primo pairing of golf and wine. Ideally triangulated between the better-known destinations of Los Angeles, San Diego and Palm Springs (and less than a two-hour drive from […]