Your Insider's Guide to the World's Best Golf
Once ranked alongside the razing of rain forests as an ecologically hostile activity, golf has embraced the green movement with the zeal of the converted. In the third in a series profiling Canada’s greenest courses, Manitoba’s Clear Lake Golf Course demonstrates how the irresistible smell of French fries can benefit the local environment.
From the forests of Newfoundland to the mountain valleys of British Columbia, a spring survey of unjustly overlooked golf courses offering bargain green fees, less crowded fairways and jaw-dropping scenery.
Through a magical mix of spectacular geography and artful design, Canada’s signature par threes often reflect not just the character of golf at a particular course, but of an entire region of the country.
A tropical paradise made popular by Brad Pitt, Celine Dion, Robert De Niro and other A-list celebrities, Anguilla is also home to one of the Caribbean’s most graceful and challenging golf courses.
Not a moment too soon for winter-weary golfers, the country’s two biggest annual golf and travel shows are back to jump-start the golf season in Toronto and Vancouver.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s golf shoes. Sam Snead’s lunchbox. Canadian legend Marlene Stewart Streit’s first hole-in-one trophy. These are among the thousands of artifacts displayed at the World Golf Hall of Fame, the centrepiece of Florida’s World Golf Village, a combination resort and theme park located between Jacksonville and St. Augustine.
Ireland’s The Gathering is a year-long “people’s party” designed to draw golfers, ex-pats, long-lost relatives and everyone else who loves the Emerald Isle back home.
Tom Fazio, Pete Dye, Jay Morrish, Tom Weiskopf and other top architects have built courses unique in the golf world by embracing the natural drama and beauty of the Sonoran desert in Scottsdale-Phoenix.
Once reliant on a traditional sun, sand and sea tourism strategy, Barbados signaled its arrival as a major player in Caribbean golf with the 2009 launch of Apes Hill Club.
Once overlooked by golfers, Kenya — a dramatically beautiful land of big-game safaris and other exotic attractions — has emerged almost overnight as one of the game’s hottest destinations.
Donald Ross, legendary architect of Pinehurst No. 2.
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