2007 PGA Show - Reports
The PGA Merchandise Show is an entirely different kind of Sweet Spot - a haven for the equipment and tech guru. On this special edition Sweet Spots, host Brandon Tucker welcomes TravelGolf.com's Tim McDonald and Chris Baldwin on location ...
Worst customer service: Chiliwear. I saw a shirt there that I liked and asked the Chiliwear rep if he had one in a medium.
"Probably," he growled. "But, I'm not going to waste my afternoon looking for it."
Oh. I see. Thanks ...
My fellow colleague Tim McDonald is right: if you're trying to pick up girls by banging away $500 mega-drivers on the indoor testing facility at the PGA Merchandise Show, you're playing to an empty house. This shouldn't come as a ...
Square driver heads are the new big thing that are going to revolutionize the game, according to a host of the major club manufacturers at the PGA Show. The next big thing in a never ending run of next big ...
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Katherine Dyson takes another look at a great combination - golf and spas - this time east of the Mississippi. From special massages and body wraps to Olympic-size swimming pools and fitness classes, resorts in the eastern states have no shortage of options for recreation and relaxation. Better yet, all this indulgence takes place within a chip shot of some world-class golf courses.
Ranking among the "best of" selections in several golf magazines, Grand Bear Golf Course in Saucier, Miss. is a kindler, gentler Jack Nicklaus design, with just the right amount of teeth, Katherine Dyson writes. Just 40 minutes from Biloxi, Grand Bear has everything you'd expect in the wilds of the deep South - cypress wetlands, live oaks, aged magnolias, and gum trees - as well as all the doglegs and bunkers that make a Nicklaus track so much fun.
The venerable TPC Sawgrass, home to perhaps the most famous par 3 in the world, is among seven golf resorts to make the 2010 list of the Readers' Choice Rankings: The Top 50 Resort Courses among the readers of Golf Digest and Golf World magazines. Florida ranked second among U.S. states, only behind Hawaii, which placed eight resorts on the list.
So your golf group has finally decided on Ireland for your golf trip next year. Now the real fun begins, deciding between Ireland's top two pockets of links courses: southwest Ireland or Northern Ireland. Both region's top five are as good as you'll find in the British Isles and Ireland. I've done the tour of both now in the last couple years, and the golf experience for the visitor in each is spectacular but a bit different for a variety of reasons.
Like paying for so many other things, finding an affordable golf course in Ireland is simply a matter of shopping around. Thanks to widely varying green fees, Brandon Tucker writes, you can play some fine links golf venues for less than $100 on the Emerald Isle. While these courses are sometimes less trafficked than their more famous counterparts, that doesn't mean you won't find stunning vistas, rich Old World history, and plenty of challenge for your buck.
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