For golfers who also love baseball, Chicago and St. Louis, the primary business and tourist destinations of the American Mid-West, offer the opportunity to tee off at top local courses before attending a Cubs, White Sox or Cardinals game. Within an hour’s drive of Chicago are several excellent courses, including George W. Dunne National, located 51 […]
New Golf Hot Spots: Tunisia, Estonia, Turkey
July 26, 2012 by
Tired of teeing it up at the same old destinations? Tunisia, Turkey and Estonia offer championship courses and exotic locales for intrepid golfers craving new experiences.
Play Two in Beautiful Cape Breton
July 22, 2012 by
Together Highlands Links and Bell Bay Golf Club make one of Canadian golf’s most irresistible combinations. Ultimate Golf Vacations offers a four-night package that includes accommodation at Keltic Lodge Resort and Spa, three rounds of golf (two at Highlands Links and one at Bell Bay) and a four-day midsize car rental with unlimited mileage. Cost: $1,239 to […]
Controversial Trump Course Launches in Scotland
July 17, 2012 by
Joined by Scottish golf stars Colin Montgomerie and Martin Laird, American billionaire Donald Trump officially launched his controversial new Scottish course, Trump International Golf Links, in early July. The $1.16-billion project, set on a prime stretch of linksland near Aberdeen on Scotland’s northeast coast, has been plagued by controversy. Construction was stalled for more than two years […]
Birdies and Birdwatching at Cordova Bay
July 7, 2012 by
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 first in a series profiling Canada’s greenest courses, we look at Victoria’s Cordova Bay Golf Course’s winning combination of birdies and birdwatching.
