Time to give away another pair of Rudy Project sunglasses, as I continue to slowly bang the drum in anticipation of the release of my next book, due out this September– PETE DYE–GOLF COURSES—FIFTY YEARS OF VISIONARY DESIGN. All you have to do to win: visit www.vagabondgolfer.com and then click on the sunglass icon on the lower left side of the homepage, underneath the suitcase. Correctly answer the Pete Dye question that’s been posted there, and a random winner will be chosen from the correct responses received within the next week, Please—just one entry per person. Good ...

I quick shout-out to my Brother-in Law—the Maharajah of Marblehead, Massachusetts, the Sultan of Sausage, the President-in-waiting of the Hair Club for Men–the redoubtable, irrepressible Emo Harris, who turned FIFTY just the other day. I have numerous golf memories of Emo, he of the truncated backswing, and diving duck hook, but space constraints will allow just a single reminisence. Several years ago I took him out to venerable Salem Country Club, near his home on Boston’s North Shore. Emo hacked, whacked and gacked in the standard fashion, though he somehow managed to bury a 3-wood shot into the hole on a ...

Though I lived there happily for nearly a decade as a young adult, my visits to Manhattan are few and far between. But I was up there a few weeks ago to meet with the publisher and editors of my new book, and view the galleys–basically the pages in a loose-leaf form–prior to printing. The book looks fantastic, and PETE DYE–GOLF COURSES will be a handsome addition to coffee-tables all over the world upon publication this autumn. Why the confidence? Because tens of thousands have been pre-sold to private and resort courses in the Caribbean, Central ...

It’s still some six weeks away, and much golf drama awaits in the interim—Arnold Palmer’s Orlando hoedown, a World Golf Championship event at Doral, and that little Augusta dustup that takes place in early April. But on the morning of April 21st, a dozen, perhaps as many as 20 discriminating and well-heeled aficionados will be the first golfers off the tee at Harbour Town, tackling the same pin positions the pros were dealing with little more than twelve hours prior, at the conclusion of this year’s Verizon Heritage. The action-packed trip, just four days and three nights, also includes access ...