Category: Travel
Articles and posts on golf vacations, and golf travel.
Magic Carpet Miniature Golf Course Photos
The Tour of America Airstream Blog has a Flickr photoset of a fifty year old miniature golf course, now scheduled for demolition.
I’ll be the locals have the same feelings about as I had when I learned that they had closed The Enchanted Forest in Maryland.
via BoingBoing
Expedia Golf Vacations
I recently got an email from Expedia promoting their golf and spa vacations packages. I visited the page, and the first thing that hit me was an ad for the Fairmont St. Andrews. It just renewed my fantasy of taking a trip to Scotland to play golf.
Then I saw the photographs of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Set amongst the coastal mountains of British Columbia, Whistler features a giant castle and four alpine golf courses.
I’m trying to figure out how to get Mrs. GolfBlogger to agree to go to Whistler in the summer. As a ski patroller, she of course wants to go when there’s show.
Senior Golf Exchange
Graeme Smith has a neat idea: he has developed a website called Senior Golf Exchange that allows people age 50+ to exchange homes for golf vacations. For a membership fee, you can list your home, and search for others you’d like to visit.
Retreating From The Snow
The snow this winter is really getting to me. In spite of dire warnings of global warming, we’ve had record snow and cold here in Michigan. In fact, it turns out that the cold this past season completely wiped out the 100 year temperate increase average. Sorry Al. It turns our you really are chicken little (although I appreciate your having invented the internet).
If you’re one of those who can afford to get away for a week (or even a few days) in warmer climes, my friends over at Golf Instruction Courses dot Com have written a good report on snowbird golf in Florida. You can get the free pdf here.
They’re from Michigan, so you know they’re good people.
Know Any Good Courses In Knoxville Area?
As the snow continues to pound down on Michigan tonight, I am further resolved to escape next week to warmer climes. I think I can get from Ann Arbor to Knoxville, Tennessee in about seven hours—that’s a good day’s drive. Can someone recommend a couple of good public courses in the area?
