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by Chris Henry on May 31, 2009
Golf in Niagara Falls
Summer is just about upon us in the northern hemisphere - hard to believe.
But there you have it, so it might be time to start thinking about a golf holiday - you know, take a ...
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by Greg Cruey on April 9, 2009
With Spring now upon us it will be time very soon to consider a golf vacation. Few places in Europe offer the variety and beauty, the challenge and the relaxation that can be found on the golf courses...
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by Chris Henry on March 25, 2009
Courtesy: golfasian.com
Ho Chi Minh is a name that many Vietnam War veterans will never forget.
Nor will the nation of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh was instrumental in founding and then leading the Democra...
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by Chris Henry on January 12, 2009
Courtesy: Getty Images
Over the past couple of years, authorities in the United States have increased their scrutiny of people entering the country - whether they're visitors or returning America...
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by Chris Henry on January 8, 2009
Courtesy: Arroyo Golf Club, Las Vegas
As predicted in a recent post, the deepening recession, particularly in the United States (nearly 700 thousand jobs lost in December alone!), is leading to a lot...
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by Chris Henry on December 15, 2008
It's time to play with currencies! This winter is going to provide some of the best golf travel deals in many a year, if not decades, particularly if you're an American golfer.
As deflation...
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by Chris Henry on September 7, 2008
Bell Bay Golf Club, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
One of the best times of year to play golf - at least in North America - is in the Fall. And with only a couple of weeks left of summer in the northern h...
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by Chris Henry on July 30, 2008
Two of the fastest growing economies in the world are also two of the so-called BRIC countries. BRIC is the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China.
When economies grow quickly and a nation'...
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by Chris Henry on February 13, 2008
The par-5 9th at Kissimmee Bay
There is a good reason that The Golf Channel is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.
When the staff aren't working, they can play the game at any of literally dozen...
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by Chris Henry on February 9, 2008
Courtesy: Wente vineyards
One of the most beautiful places in the world to play golf - at least in my mind - is the Monterey Peninsula.
Frankly, any place in that part of California is great, whet...
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by Chris Henry on February 8, 2008
shannon Golf Club
Golf courses and airports don't get along very well. It's about the noise, frankly.
Although that raucous crowd at the FBR Open in Phoenix last SuperBowl weekend could rival...
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by Chris Henry on February 5, 2008
Airline travel these days is a lot like having someone stick a fork in your eye.
It's expensive and cut-rate at the same time; you pay hefty taxes on top of your ticket price and you have to bu...
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by Chris Henry on February 3, 2008
Courtesy: Land-Mar
It's a principle in the business world that out of confusion and uncertainty comes opportunity.
The recent economic upheaval in the United States due to the sub-prime mortgag...
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by Chris Henry on November 9, 2007
Courtesy: golfworld.com
In 2006, LPGA veteran Betsy King traveled to Africa to see first hand how AIDS was destroying a continent. One of the countries she visited was rwanda.
As you should recall, ...
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by Chris Henry on September 19, 2007
Carmel Valley Ranch, Calif.
Our long weekend in Monterey was over all too quickly. There's something about time that always perplexes me. Why do good things like summer, great rounds of golf or ...
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by Chris Henry on September 18, 2007
The 11th at Carmel Valley Ranch
It's day two of Monterey in a Mazda. And the morning dawns bright and clear - another perfect day in Carmel Valley, it seems.
We're up early, itching to get ...
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by Chris Henry on September 17, 2007
Carmel, California
I have glimpsed Heaven on Earth and it is the Monterey Peninsula in California.
Golfers know Monterey as the home of Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Poppy Hills and Cypress Point.
...
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by Chris Henry on August 29, 2007
Courtesy: Le Meridien Penina Resort
A while ago, I signed up to receive travel e-mails from the New York Times. Basically the Times passes on travel deals without endorsing them; it's junk mail...
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by Chris Henry on August 28, 2007
This blog site is "equipped" to permit Google, that omnipresent monetizer of the internet, to place ads on the URL known as eagleparbirdie.com.
For the past couple of days, an ad for a PC...
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by Chris Henry on May 13, 2007
Courtesy: Highlands Links, Cape Breton
I'm a big fan of oceanside golf courses. I love the ocean and playing golf alongside an expanse of blue water simply heightens the pleasure of the game.
I&...
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by Chris Henry on April 26, 2007
Courtesy: Predator Ridge, British Columbia
The beauty of golf is that it is played virtually everywhere in the world.
That affords the traveling golfer plenty of opportunities to see some majestic s...
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by Chris Henry on April 9, 2007
Thai Muang golf club, Phuket, Thailand
The Masters is over for another year; the first major of the season, done. And it was a good one.
As much as it is the first major, the Masters has always sign...
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by Chris Henry on March 31, 2007
Courtesy: Blue Canyon, Thailand
A little over two years ago, while on a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, I struck up a conversation with a passenger in the seat next to me.
He was a Canadian whose ...
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by Chris Henry on March 19, 2007
Courtesy: Pippy Park golf course
Newfoundland is Canada's easternmost province and the last to join the rest of the country in Confederation. That happened in 1949.
Up to that point, Newfoundlan...
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by Chris Henry on March 12, 2007
Courtesy: GolfPEI.com
One of the finest places to play golf in North America is in Canada's east coast province of Prince Edward Island. This picture doesn't do justice to the beauty of this ...
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by Chris Henry on February 24, 2007
Courtesy: Iceland Tourism
The Royal and Ancient golf club of St. Andrew's Handbook for Golfers says the most northerly 18 hole golf course is in Iceland.
It's called the Akureyri Golf Club.
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by Chris Henry on February 2, 2007
Courtesy: Portmarnock golf club
The other day, I wrote a post about traveling to Scotland to play in the land from whence the game came.
If you checked the tour company's website, you would have...
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by Chris Henry on January 30, 2007
Courtesy: Golf Industry Online
The dream of every serious golfer is to make a pilgrimage to the home of the game: Scotland. And once there, of course, to play on some true Scottish courses, perhaps e...
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by Chris Henry on January 17, 2007
Courtesy: Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday
I remember a great golfing road trip two buddies and I took way back in 1985.
One of us had won the use of a rental car for a week at our corporate golf tourname...
