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.
Bali’s Nirwana Resort is a Golf Paradise
June 26, 2012 by
Not far from the rampant tourism development in Kuta, southern Bali’s most popular beach destination, the Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort is a tropical paradise of 300-year-old temples, stepped rice paddies and world-class golf.
Canada’s First True Links Opens in Cape Breton
June 21, 2012 by
Has a Canadian golf course ever been more eagerly anticipated than Cabot Links? Touted as the country’s first true links, the dramatic seaside layout on Cape Breton’s west coast became an international flagship for the Canadian golf industry with its launch in 2012 and, not incidentally, the savior of Inverness, a former mining town that […]
Pinehurst No. 2 Reigns In U.S.A. Golf
March 29, 2012 by
Donald Ross’s celebrated No. 2 course at Pinehurst Resort is the iconic heart of a bucolic North Carolina village named the first Anchor Site of the U.S. Open.
