Perhaps no course fits better along the Grand Strand than Man O'War Golf Club, featuring a layout with so much water that golfers may believe they are playing on the beachfront, Josh Hoke writes. Water beckons from nine tees and in front of five greens. Still, the hazards provide fair tests, offering golfers in Myrtle Beach a set of challenges more mental than physical.
The Hills course at Hilton Head's Palmetto Hall Plantation Club is a steady-paced, traditional layout that does its trade in lots of little hazards. It's a thinking man's course that puts small spots of trouble on every hole, and your job is to find them, hopefully before you shoot. It's a delight to play, Lisa Allen writes. Even if in trouble, one can chuckle with the thought, "Yup, Arthur, I fell for it." Again and again.
Stay at the Naples Grande Beach Resort or the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Naples and live like a country-clubber. Hotel guests receive access to the Naples Grande Golf Club, an otherwise private layout that ranks as one of the best in Southwest Florida. The Rees Jones-designed golf course is a breath of fresh air, Jason Scott Deegan writes.
The Ka'anapali Golf Resort, home to two 18-hole golf courses, has introduced the "Golf My Way" program for 2010, which allows golfers to book an 18-hole round but play at their own leisure, whether that's over the course of a day or throughout their stay.
Dustin Johnson returns this week to the Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey Peninsula C.C. and Spyglass Hill Golf Course to defend his title at the AT&T Pebble Beach National. Spyglass Hill, a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design that opened in 1963, is named for classic novel "Treasure Island" because rumor has it that the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, used to gather ideas for his books in the area. With the first five holes running along sandy seaside dunes and the last 13 cut through a forest, Spyglass Hill Golf Course is considered one of the most difficult in the world from the back tees.
Spyglass Hill Golf Course - Resort in Pebble Beach
Stay at the Naples Grande Beach Resort or the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Naples and live like a country-clubber. Hotel guests receive access to the Naples Grande Golf Club, an otherwise private layout that ranks as one of the best in Southwest Florida. The Rees Jones-designed golf course is a breath of fresh air, Jason Scott Deegan writes.
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Where can you party Super Bowl-style, lay some cash on the big game and play a few rounds of golf? Las Vegas, of course. Sin City provides perhaps a better destination than even Miami for Super Sunday 2010. Many hotels offer weekend promotions that include tee times at premier courses.
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Perhaps the most challenging of the three closed-to-the-public golf courses at PGA West, the Nicklaus Private Course features elevated tees, sunken fairways and unpredictable greens. And that's not to mention the spectacular views.
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Brandon Tucker's 2009 travel schedule was especially strong, with trips to Thailand, Costa Del Sol in Spain, Alberta's Canadian Rockies and Scotland's rich East Lothian region. Check out his 2009 travel awards, including the best course of which he'd never heard, the best day trip and, just maybe, the world's best club sandwich.
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Cougar Point Golf Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort "is a real winner and one Gary Player made sure would be a crowd pleaser among the many courses in the Charleston area," writes WorldGolf.com reader Elliot DeBear. "Cougar Point is a perfect resort course, challenging when played from the correct tees with beautifully laid out holes."
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Perhaps no course fits better along the Grand Strand than Man O'War Golf Club, featuring a layout with so much water that golfers may believe they are playing on the beachfront, Josh Hoke writes. Water beckons from nine tees and in front of five greens. Still, the hazards provide fair tests, offering golfers in Myrtle Beach a set of challenges more mental than physical.
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