Beyond The Course: Nefyn & District in Wales boasts golf's best watering hole, the Ty Coch
Perhaps nowhere in the world do beer (or whisky) and golf go together better than at the Ty Coch pub, just steps away from the 12th hole at Nefyn & District in Wales. In his first "Beyond The Course" column for WorldGolf.com, globe-trotting golf writer Larry Olmsted calls it the best bar in golf.
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Tweetle-Dumb: Bivens' call for tweeting between shots puts LPGA Tour in hazardous territory
LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens says she is open to the idea of tour players "tweeting" at events. Not between rounds, but between shots. This is about as bad an idea as the LPGA's mandatory English rule last year. And to the game's traditionalists, it may be just as offensive.
... full article »Golf needs more courses like New Orleans' Audubon Park
Golfers quit because the game is too difficult, takes too long and is too expensive. Facilities like Audubon Park Golf Course in New Orleans are the solution to all three problems. What's more, the course offers excellent conditioning, scenery and charm - and it proves you can make a short course as enjoyable as a so-called "championship" layout.
... full article »Road to golf redemption: Conquering ghosts at the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland
Approaching the first tee of the Old Course this week, I can barely focus. My mind keeps wandering back to that damn shot: Oct. 28, 2006. In fact, practically every time someone asks me about the Old Course, a nightmarish vision of that ugly, pathetic excuse for a tee shot resurfaces. On that calm, sunny October afternoon, my tee shot off the first flew so far right it went practically onto the West Sands beach. I missed the widest fairway in golf. It wasn't even close.
... full article »After Masters week, a call for America's private golf clubs to let us all tee it up
My greatest wish for golf in the United States is that one day no golf course anywhere in the country will be entirely private. There will be members clubs, but they will offer blocks of public tee times at least a few days each week for the good of the game - Augusta National included.
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Virginia Beach National a kinder, gentler Pete Dye golf course
The words "playable by all levels" or "generous fairways" usually don't come to mind when describing a Pete Dye golf course. But those are descriptions you can [...]
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