This Week at TravelGolf.com: Aug. 28, 2008

Enjoy this college football season with your golf clubs and TravelGolf.com

Bust out that Buckeye head cover, that Gator Koozie. It's college football season once again.

And to celebrate the passion, the pageantry, the pretty co-eds in face paint, TravelGolf.com is combining the two best things of fall: College football and golf. Sure, you could hang out in a stadium parking lot all morning, suspicious that the brat-master's mustard has gone bad. Or you could spend the morning on the golf course before heading to the big game.

Each Monday all the way through the conference championship games in December, TravelGolf.com will pay tribute to one of the week's biggest matchups. We'll let Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso dissect each team's zone-blocking schemes, we're going to tell you where to golf around that particular campus, from Ann Arbor, to Austin to Los Angeles. We'll also fill you in on some of the town's best watering holes and where to watch the game if you couldn't score tickets.

In our first week, we hit Eugene, Ore. where on Saturday the Ducks open up their season with Washington. We tell you where to find some value-laden mountain golf and some of the city's many microbreweries and sports bars around campus. You'll have to stay tuned to see which town is next. (Hint: We head to swampy SEC country for an intrastate rivalry game.)

We're hoping to show readers that some of the best campuses in America have some outstanding golf nearby. If it's too late to make travel plans this year, start planning for 2009. And if you can dig up your old college ID, you still might be able to score a student discount on some of these tracks.

We can't promise your team will come away with a W, but we can promise we'll uncover the best golf courses - and bars - in town.

As always, TravelGolf.com welcomes your comments.

As Oregon and Washington square off, Eugene's golf courses beckon fans

The Oregon Ducks carry a No. 20 preseason ranking into their season opener versus the University of Washington Huskies. Conference match-ups don't generally happen this early in the year, which is all the more reason to head to Eugene for Week 1 of the college football season. And don't forget to bring your golf clubs!

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New Nicklaus course continues Tucson's trend toward blockbuster big-budget golf

A $92 million renovation of Omni Tucson National and the arrival of a Jack Nicklaus course to a brand new Ritz-Carlton resort are just two examples of how Tucson is transforming into the next big-budget golf vacation destination.

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BadGolfer.com Exclusive: Barack Obama to collaborate with Tiger Woods Design

Barack Obama has signed a long-term contract with Tiger Woods Design to design golf courses around the globe. Details of Obama's golf designs are still under wraps, but sources close to the candidate have told BadGolfer.com that Obama will create non-partisan golf courses of the highest quality for an exclusive clientele.

Also: Rush Limbaugh's interview with BadGolfer.com