Who doesn't love St. Patrick's Day? The excuse to skip work in favor of green beer. The positive vibes with spring in the air. The NCAA Tournament. It's just an all-around great day. To celebrate all things Irish, here's a few good reasons to schedul… more »

The e-mails are streaming in one by one pronouncing the wonderful news. Golf, in the upper Midwest, is open for business. I've gotten e-mails from some of the best public courses in metro Detroit -- Boulder Pointe, Moose Ridge and Shepherd's Hollow t… more »

Unless you’ve been hording Golf Magazine since 2002, you’ve probably let all of the best tips just slip out of consciousness once you tossed the issue away. To be honest, I read over most of them, too, without a second thought. I once had a friend cal… more »

I tend to laugh at folks who buy those used balls culled from ponds. These bargain hunters sift through the bucket in the pro shop before a round, searching for that magic bullet that hasn’t become cracked and yellowed. I’m cheap on a lot of things b… more »

I'm not surprised when a major golf resort files for bankruptcy anymore. In fact, I'm amazed more of them haven't done it in this Great Recession. The race to get bigger and better meant spending millions of dollars to keep up with other resorts that… more »

Hard as this is to write, I might have had more fun at a golf resort in freezing temperatures last week than under the summer sun last July. There are a hundred or so golf resorts around the country that transform into ski resorts in winter. I’ve playe… more »

When it comes to the golf swing, strength creates speed and speed translates into power. We all know what a good exercise regimen can do for a person's game. But I'll bet even the most dedicated golf fitness fanatics forget to exercise vital, yet o… more »

Golf is a game of extreme highs and lows. Even a hacker like me experiences this emotional rollercoaster. I cannot image what it is like for people who are playing for millions of dollars. In the past three years, I can remember at least two dark… more »

The Stack and Tilt swing did for a time take the PGA Tour by storm. Players like Aaron Baddeley, Dean Wilson, Mike Weir and Steve Elkington switched to the method popularized by golf instructors Michael Bennett and Andy Plummer and saw results. Benne… more »

As I look back at 2009, to call it a banner year would be a ludicrous understatement. It's been a year of a lifetime really. I was fortunate enough to play five of the top 100 golf courses in the world and three others on the top 100 in the U.S. Last… more »

So I have basically spent the last two months reviewing all the golf books that end up at my door. My wife is pleading with the Fed-Ex man to stop dropping them off, but it never ceases to amaze me how many people love to write about golf. The passion fo… more »

As I mentioned earlier this month, there is no better golf experience than Pebble Beach Golf Links. And along that vein, there are few golf books as good as Pebble Beach: The Official Golf History, published in November by Triumph Books (costing $45)… more »

Golf equipment is a difficult subject for most everyday golfers to understand. It is like trying to keep up with computer technology. One year it’s the latest, greatest thing. The next it’s passé. Author Lee Pearce, a member of the Professi… more »

Count Darius Oliver as my hero. The man has spent countless hours on the road, traveling to more than 800 courses around the world over the last five years to put together two epic volumes on golf courses, Planet Golf USA (the most recent) and Planet… more »

Peter Post knows a thing or two about etiquette. The Vermont-based author has written the New York Times bestseller, Essential Manners for Men, as well as Essential Manners for Couples. He brings his common sense on the subject to golf with his book,… more »