CLUB GLOVE Stiff Arm

The Club Glove Stiff Arm is an extensible pole that sits in your golf bag, and creates a space between the top of the clubs and the roof of the golf travel bag. This adds stiffness to the travel bag, and helps to prevent your clubs from being crushed by an overworked, underpaid, uncaring airport baggage handler.

At 11,000 feet in the Andes Mountains, the Mallasilla golf club in Peru is the world’s highest. Reuters has a story on how some indigenous women, known as Cholitas have taken up the game because they work at the otherwise exclusive golf course. There are some great photos with the story, too.

I think there’s a challenge in this story. One of the big golf magazines ought to sponsor a person to play at both the highest (Mallasilla) and the lowest courses (perhaps the Furnace Creek Course) in the world.

Renowned instructor Rick Smith is saying what we here in Michigan have know all along: Northern Michigan golf is “magical.”

“We have a great golf mecca and we have to keep getting out the word,” Smith said. “We are this hidden gem. It is one of the best playgrounds for golf. We have long summer days and a perfect climate.”

He not only touts golf during his travels, but many of the other activities that make Northern Michigan a four-season wonderland for visitors.

“I talk about the blue-ribbon trout streams, the elk, the natural beauty, the lakes, the weather, the stars in the evening,” Smith said. “And it is a great place to learn how to ski. Snowboarding is huge and you can go mountain biking. Being outdoors in the summer or winter just doesn’t get any better (than Northern Michigan). It’s a resort destination that we want people to enjoy.”

Yeah. I’m a homer. But it really is Northern Michigan golf that made me fall in love with the game.

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

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.

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