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 dozens...
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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, whether...
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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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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...
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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 mortgage...
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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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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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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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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. A...
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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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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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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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, Newfoundland...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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