Travel – On the Road in The Magnolia State

Mississippi is known for its majestic cotton fields, beautiful deltas and for being the birthplace of blues music. It has a rich history chock-full of southern charm, with French, Spanish and British influence. I doubt the first thing many think of when it comes to The Magnolia State is golf, but there are plenty of […]

Cover Story – Best of Private Golf 2023

Best Overall Country Club 2023 Dallas National Golf Club  There are a handful of clubs in Dallas/Fort Worth that are just special. Dallas National Golf Club is certainly one of those places. Opened in 2002, National is a golfer’s paradise, with a course that is unlike anything for hundreds of miles and a practice facility […]

Cover Story – Hope Beel

If you have been a fan of AG for the last 25 years, then you undoubtedly remember the days of our Cart Girl of the Month. It was one of our most popular benchmarks and we still get questions about it today. Our first Cart Girl of the Month ran in October 2003; our last […]

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 […]

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 […]

Feature – Kathy Whitworth 1939-2022

It was March 10, 2019. A crowd of junior golfers sat within the high-ceilinged, Mira Vista Country Club clubhouse, awaiting the commencement of the Kathy Whitworth Invitational welcome dinner. Among that group was my 12-year-old self, both wide-eyed with excitement, and undoubtedly red-cheeked from enduring the standard 20mph breeze of a spring day in Fort […]

Cover Story – Benjamin Vincent

If you a longtime reader of AVIDGOLFER, then you have likely seen many of our illustrated covers. What you may not know is who is behind them and how they are created. As we embark on the 25th anniversary of the magazine, we wanted to pull back the curtain and give our readers an inside […]

Travel – Firestone Country Club

Invited Clubs, formerly ClubCorp, is one of the premiere club management companies in the United States, with properties all across the country. One of their most recognizable clubs is familiar to those who have followed the PGA TOUR, Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.  Getting to Firestone is pretty painless from Dallas. There are plenty […]

Cover Story – Ryan Palmer

Ryan Palmer is as Texan as they come. The Amarillo native grew up worshipping Texas A&M football and wanting to be an Aggie. He got that chance and after a solid career in College Station, the now 46-year-old is one of the wily veterans on the PGA TOUR. In his career, he has finished in […]

Feature – First Look: PGA Frisco

Here at AVIDGOLFER, we have followed the story of the new PGA development in Frisco since it was little more than a wild idea circulating among the local golf community. Those whispers began about four years ago, and since then, the idea not only became a reality, but has given birth to the new modern […]