Long the Caribbean’s marquee golf resort, Casa de Campo owes its success to three stunning Pete Dye-designed courses, a high-society clientele—and the siren’s call of bikini-clad supermodel Elle Macpherson.
Challenge Innisbrook’s Copperhead
October 26, 2012 by
Florida’s venerable Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club, home of the PGA Tour’s Tampa Bay Championship, is offering stay-and-play deals from as little as $149 per day. Based on double occupancy, the Classic Golf Package includes one round of golf daily, advance tee times, and unlimited use of the resort’s practice and fitness facilities. At least one […]
Are Shorter Courses Golf’s Future?
October 17, 2012 by
Anthony Mocklow, the director of golf at Bermuda’s Fairmont Southampton, is convinced that the popularity of the resort’s gorgeous, palm tree-lined par-three course is a harbinger of a faster, cheaper and more fun future for the game.
Wales Primed for 2025 AIG Women’s Open
October 11, 2012 by
(Last updated February 2025.) It’s no exaggeration to say that the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor Resort, a thriller won by the Europeans, finally established Wales as a golf destination to rival Scotland and Ireland. Revenue from golf tourism in Wales increased 21 percent over the previous year to more than US$66 million. And in the subsequent boom years […]
To the Linksland at Bandon Dunes, Cabot Links and Ireland’s Southwest
October 4, 2012 by
Like many well-travelled golfers, the more I play links golf the more I love it. Indeed, no golfer’s education is complete without an extensive tour of the fabled links of Scotland and Ireland. Derived from the term linksland, links golf is played on ground uncovered when the sea receded and is without doubt the most […]
