Someone asked me if I’d traveled much this year and I immediately replied no. Then I thought about it. Yep, a fair bit, actually. Pebble Beach, Los Angeles, Bandon Dunes and England/Wales in the spring, followed by Highlands Links and Kamloops in the summer, and finished by Long Island, NY a couple of weeks back. [...]
Yesterday the National Allied Golf Association, a Canadian organization made up of seven different golf-related groups, came out with its first survey. Yep, golf in Canada is big – really big. Big to the tune of contributing $11.3 billion to the country’s GDP, directly or indirectly employing 341,000 people and directly employing 155,024. Those are [...]
Though I couldn’t care less about full disclosure — this is my blog and I’ll write what I want — I should say that I worked with Thomas Dunne at Travel & Leisure Golf for several years. Tom is a thinker — the type who likes a good meaty pitch and wants to make his [...]
Over the coming week I’m going to be posting a number of articles to the new travel portion of our site. Most of them have been written over the past seven or eight years, but remain current with a few slight edits.
Today’s post is about the last building boom in the so-called “Golf Capital of [...]
Another of my lost “Voices on golf” columns which were intially published on PGATour.com
Finding golfing Nirvana in Scotland March 4, 2004
Many spend their entire life trying to find golfing Nirvana.
Some find it when a chance invite takes them to one of the world’s most exclusive and great golf courses, places with names like Augusta, Pine [...]
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