As always, Golf Course Trades did a marvelous job with my Arizona golf story. We even got the cover of the print version, I’m told. (WOO HOO HOO!) Arizona is indeed a golf reverie from which you don’t want to wake. Everyone needs to experience this unique golf ecosystem. I’m not usually one on natural setting, but there is power in the rocks and...
Back 9 runs my Black Mesa piece here. Enjoy!
Golf and ***shudder*** Spas… I hated typing that word, but hey, the readers have spoken… Dear Jay: My girlfriends and I love golf and are looking for a cool resort to play in the northwest, west or northeast that also has a good spa and food. We have played a lot of the big resorts and are looking for something cool and different. What can you recommend? Thanks...
Tony Korologos of Hooked on Golf just got back from St. George’s, Utah and has a great review of Sand Hollow, one of last year’s candidates for best new public course.
Well at least we still have the tournament. What’s next? The Ti-D-Bowl Open in Flushing, New York?
Hooray! Tom Doak’s great design at Apache Stronghold has re-opened on Wednesdays – Sundays.
Apache Stronghold has a number of great holes modeled after the Raynor template, including a Biarritz, a Redan, a Punchbowl and many others. The price is terrific too, well worth the drive out to Globe, AZ if you’re playing in the Scottsdale area.
Tony Korologos went to Black Mesa for three days and wrote some great articles on Hooked on Golf blog. While I finish my U.S. Open preview piece, here’s links to Tony’s coverage of the recent Black Mesa media tournament.
Two of my favorite golf bloggers have posted news updates about their local tournaments. Lawyer Tom Kirkendall’s Houston’s Clear Thinkers blog discusses law, politics, media, and yes golf. With the Shell Houston Open on tap for next week, he previews the tournament quite well, both its history and the golf course. From the article: “After an...
Man, the hits just keep coming for Tom Doak. Dude, did you break a mirror or something? Yesterday brush fire ripped through a Colorado plain coming dangerously close to housing and Tom Doak’s redesign work at Common Ground Golf Course, a municipal club outside Aurora, CO. The fire came within feet of the 12th green. Here’s the latest. Hat tip: Tom...
No word on what the future may bring, but Apache Stronghold, an excellent Tom Doak design owned by the San Carlos Apache Indian Nation has temporarily shut it’s doors. According to Golf Digest, “A notice on the casino’s web site reads, “The Apache Stronghold Golf Course is closed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience...
Talking Stick North and We-ko-pa are the subject of this week’s piece.
Sister Mary Matthew was scowling at Pete Ogonowski with a glance of Amazonian fierceness…again. This time his high crimes and misdemeanors were to stick his thumb against his closed middle and ring fingers, extend his pinkie and forefinger into a “devil sign,” and thrash his hair back and forth like a heavy metal star. He was doing it, however, during...
…is up at Cybergolf. We talk about Cowboys Golf Club, Turtle Hill, Indian Creek (a little), and Pine Dunes.
Hat tip: Dan Mills and his music. Here’s to an overnight sensation.
Cowboys G.C. 1600 Fairview Drive Grapevine, TX (just ten-fifteen minutes from DFW airoprt) 817.481.7277 www.cowboysgolfclub.com Architect: Jeff Brauer Wild winds whipped the plane as we made our way to Dallas. That’s meant the golf would be even better, if I were fortunate enough to get to the course. Winds around Dallas often wreak havoc on flight plans...
We chose to decompress from the excitement of Colonial yesterday by playing a local favorite north of Dallas, Turtle Hill G.C., seven miles from the Texas-Oklahoma border. Muenster isn’t a cheese nor, a horror-thrmed sitcom. It’s a town of 1,500 thirteen miles from the nearest town of any size and an hour from Dallas. The course is in the middle of...