Opened in 1998, The Slammer & The Squire is the first of three planned golf courses at World Golf Village. Designed by Bobby Weed, the course is a tribute to Hall of Fame members and golf legends "Slammin" Sam Snead and the late Gene "The Squire" Sarazin, who both consulted on the layout. Duncan says the course is a "playable, dynamic and impeccably manicured course, deserving of recognition amongst the state's most noteworthy layouts." In the final part of the series, be sure to check out an overview of the World Golf Village, Hall of Fame, and other attractions. The brainchild of the PGA Tour, the World Golf Village houses numerous memorial and historical sites and organizations under one proverbial roof. Our reviewer says it's well worth a visit.

GolfCalifornia.com: Sierra's Newest Winner

Golf course architect Robin Nelson, who designed the heralded Mauna Lani in Hawaii, has done it again. With The Dragon at Gold Mountain, Nelson has designed a course that leaves golfers shaking their heads long after they've battled the layout. Senior writer David R. Holland says the greatest compliment to The Dragon is all the criticism it's getting from the golfers around the town of Graeagle. Nelson, who worked on the course for nearly five years, calls The Dragon's 18th hole the best he's ever designed. Located in the Sierras north of Truckee, the Dragon will reopen this spring after the snow melts. While you're planning your trip, check out Holland's recommendation of The Lodge at Whitehawk Ranch, a perfect place to relax after taking on The Dragon.

GolfArizona.com: Changing Times in Phoenix

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According to staff writer Michael Hegarty, the winds of change are blowing fast at The Pointe Golf Club at Lookout Mountain in Phoenix, where the natural landscape has been swallowed with residential homes, apartments and even a McDonald's. Fortunately, the course is adapting to change well. While there used to be more desert on every hole, the course is moving some tee boxes and bunkers around to accommodate the booming residential business in the area. Within the Pointe Golf Club's new confines is a well-kept course of 6,617 yards that features long par-3s and short par-5s throughout an array of doglegs, hills, bunkers and elevation changes. The Pointe Golf Club is a little different than the one Bill Johnston designed 12 years ago in the Sonoran Desert, but many observers say the course has never been in better shape.

OntarioGolf.com: Rejuvenating the Golfers' Soul

Voted Golf Digest's Best New Canadian Course for 1999, Greywolf Golf Course epitomizes playability with a design built to maximize the natural beauty of the land. At an elevation of nearly 4,000 feet, Greywolf continues to overwhelm, inspire, and rejuvenate the golfers' soul. In this week's Canadian spotlight, join contributing writer Andrew Penner in discovering this "monumental achievement" in Panorama, located in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Designed by Doug Carrick, Greywolf sits at an elevation of nearly 4,000 feet. With a world class ski hill boasting a vertical drop of 4,000 feet, and heli-skiing opportunities up to 9,000 feet, the operative word at Panorama seems to be "high". If you have a desire to blend your love for the game with your love of nature and creation, Penner says you won't be disappointed at Greywolf.

GolfCalifornia.com: New Plans for Pebble Beach

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Already regarded as one of golf's royalties, the Pebble Beach Company is poised to add yet another jewel to its crown. In this week's spotlight news feature, contributing writer Jerry Stewart says plans for a new golf course that will be designed by renowned golf architect Tom Fazio are slowly moving ahead. In the works since 1989, the new course will join Pebble's incomparable line-up of Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill, the Links at Spanish Bay and Del Monte Golf Course. When the new course finally arrives, Stewart wonders what will happen to Poppy Hills Golf Course, part of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am rotation. In one of the most popular ideas, the rotation would involve Poppy Hills, Spyglass Hill and Pebble's new course, with each course taking a break once in a three-year span.

From the Rough

In case you missed last week's report, be sure to catch our introduction to AustraliaGolf.com, which tees off this month with a series from our friends at Golf and Travel Magazine. The feature package begins with an overview of Australia, where there is a golf course for every 12,000 people, a per-capita ratio believed to be the best in the world. On some courses, golfers can even encounter grazing kangaroos or wombat holes. While most travelers will land in Sydney, our series focuses on two other areas, the state of Queensland and the city of Melbourne.

A charming city of 3.2 million built on a coastal plain at the top of Port Phillip Bay in southeastern Australia, Melbourne has no peer on any continent as a golf mecca. Wherever you play, you'll marvel at the way that all of Melbourne's courses seem to flow from their environs as if designed by a higher power. In our final part of the series, we head to the Australian state of Queensland, an outdoorsman's paradise and a natural stomping ground for top athletes like Norman and Webb. Almost three times the size of Texas, Queensland is Australia's second-largest state.

As always, if you disagree with our reviewers on a certain course or just want to sound off about the latest from the PGA Tour, be sure to visit the TravelGolf.com forum, a series of message boards where visitors can write about everything from the Myrtle Beach golf scene to new equipment. There's also a free classifieds section where golfers can advertise that old set of clubs they've been meaning to sell for years. And if you haven't checked it out already, be sure to visit the new TravelGolf.com Pro Shop, a joint venture with The Golf Warehouse. With all of this at TravelGolf.com, there's no need to go anywhere else on the Web.

Until next week….happy golfing!