Features
Golf Tech – Mill, Baby Mill!
Golf club manufacturing has been transformed in the past few decades with modern computer-aided design and advanced precision manufacturing using high-tech equipment and space-aged materials technologies. Golfers can now benefit from these state-of-the-art advancements with golf clubs that are higher in quality, perform better and can be fit and customized like never before, ultimately allowing golfers to trust their equipment …
Cover Story – Best of Private Golf 2025
BEST OVERALL COUNTRY CLUB VAQUERO CLUB After several years atop the best country club category, Northwood Club was dethroned in 2025 by a previous titleholder. Vaquero Club’s course reopened last year after a herculean renovation that had as many zeroes as the average annual contract for an NFL superstar. Vaquero Club originally burst onto the Metroplex private club scene back …
Travel – Mountain Sky Guest Ranch
Montana has a mystique all its own. From the days of Lewis and Clark and the fur trade to the hit TV series Yellowstone, Montana’s growing popularity has tourism on the rise. Not too far from the 2.2-million-acre National Park is a place that offers every bit of the Paradise Valley experience. The Mountain Sky Guest Ranch is part cowboy, …
Travel – Reynolds Lake Oconee
Towering pines, fresh air, lakeside views and every possible amenity you could ever want. Yes, that is what you get when you travel to Reynolds Lake Oconee, nestled deep within the Georgia wilderness. Located about 90 minutes east of Atlanta in the Oconee National Forest, this sprawling property offers world-class golf, a 19,000-acre lake, some of the most gorgeous homes …
Cover Story – 2025 PGA Show
The area near the convention center was clean and nice, although it was a little tourist-trappy. There are multiple bars and restaurants along International Drive, offering any number of places to dine and drink. There is also Icon Park, which features an observation wheel. For some reason, there is a business that offers helicopter tours of Orlando, which I found …
Feature – Cosm Dallas
“Shared Reality” is a concept many are not familiar with. However, if you live in the Metroplex, there is a new venue that provides an atmosphere and watching experience unlike any other in Texas. Cosm Dallas, which is located in The Colony’s Grandscape, is the newest way to watch your favorite team, all in a completely altered reality that makes …
Cover Story – The Golf Power Players of North Texas
The DFW golf landscape is ever changing, and there are always movers and shakers in the industry that we follow so closely. The PGA of America’s move to Frisco, the emergence of Topgolf as a global technology sensation and a trio of fantastic young PGA TOUR stars make this one of the best times ever to be a fan of …
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, in lieu of hiking boots. …
Travel – Mallorca, Spain
As we head into 2025, chances are you’ve got a couple of resolutions up your sleeve. Maybe you’ve got a wellness goal and want to improve your diet, exercise more, get some rest, or take better care of yourself. And maybe (since you’re reading AVIDGOLFER) you also want to… play more golf? Golf is not only a great resolution, it …
Cover Story – Beau Welling
Beau Welling could easily be described as the most interesting man in golf course design. His love for golf began as a child and developed as he made his way through Brown University as a member of its golf team. After a brief stint in the financial world, his longtime dream of golf course design began to take shape under …