Well with -15 wind chills in NYC this morning, and worse still in store when I head to Siberacuse for the holiday, it’s time for golf in the south. Instead of the annual Florida trip, this year it’s Texas. Dallas will be this Pittsburgh Steelers fans base of operations, with the rock band Bowling For Soup, as it were. Here’s the list: Cowboys G...
The winter tour will be in Texas and will once again feature rock stars Bowling For Soup as my playing partners. We’ll be hitting Jeff Brauer’s Cowboys G.C. in Dallas, Colonial C.C., Pine Dunes, Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, and others. Deets later. For now, Steve Habel, Cybergolf’s southwest correspondent has this report on Texas PGA and...
From Kevin Sniffen and The Hamilton Group’s press release: “Eddie Peck, Principal of Black Mesa Golf Club today announced that Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design, Inc. has been hired to design a new course at the daily fee club that sits on the Santa Clara Pueblo in La Mesilla, NM. The new course will sit to the south of the current layout and be the...
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Here’s the last part of my conversation with Scot Duke of Innovative Business Golf on Public golf in the southwest. We talk about great southwest resorts, the design concepts of architects who have built in the desert and wrap it up with a lambasting of casino course golf (except for Atlantic City Country Club – a public course designed by William Flynn...
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Highlights – why the doctrine of framing dumbs down golf, why great golf course architecture is making a huge comeback, and how to blend eye-popping “wow factor” with great golf courses to create a business golf trip that’s all sizzle AND a thick juicy steak!
Scot did a marvelous job editing the audio and hat tip to Cyberears for picking us up and syndicating us.
As we wrote earlier, Scot Duke and I had different impressions of We-Ko-Pa G.C. in Scottsdale, AZ. I recommended to Scot that he play the course while out there. As you also know, my rating system reviews design, (greens, bunkering, routing, hole shapes and strategies), natural setting, conditioning, value! and overall. Using those parameters, I rate We-ko-pa as...
High Noon – Supper’s Ready  As we stood waiting for what we could see of the first fairway to clear, our fivesome was spread out over three different tee boxes. Gilligan (a 1.7 index) and The Skipper (6) will have their hands full from the tips. I’ll be playing one set down with Kevin Sniffen, about 6,600 yards. Eschewing the far forward...
11:00 – “Oh, Dino! Soup’s on!” – Preparing the Moveable Feast Tucked in between the Sangre De Christo Mountains on one side and the Jemez Mountains on the other, there is no question the staggering grandeur of Black Mesa’s natural setting commands the player’s attention. The desolate, wrinkled rose-colored mountains are...
16 October, 06:00             Daybreak comes. Though the rest of the writers are asleep, my room is filled with light and music and movement. As I walked thirty-six holes over the two days, my morning routine was focused on fitness. A long jog, a swim, a quick horseback ride and a dip in the Jacuzzi will ready me for the crucible; from first tee...
15 October, 19:30 SANTE FE, NM – Just like the song says, the weather started getting rough, our tiny plane was tossed; if not for the courage of the fearless flight crew, we would have been stranded in – GASP! – SHREVEPORT! Everyone who left from the greater New York area was routed into Albuquerque through Dallas. Unfortunately, Dallas got slammed...
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SANTE FE, NM – Forget “release the hounds” or “release the gnats” (if you believe Yankee fans; they think that’s what happened against the Cleveland Indians this year). No Eddie Peck is telling his greenskeeper to release the Velociraptors. Normally the mildest-mannered guy ever, Peck loves laying out the nooses at his grassy...
Sorry, but the golf is on. (That’s the story of my life:) Marv Beatty (a/k/a Instamarv) and I had a nice email exchange about La Cantera, site of the Valero Texas Open. The new site looks great Marv! Nice to have you back at the golf site water cooler.