Links lovers, this one's fore you!

94 Members
Join Us!

Pebble Beach cited in 'A Fantastic California Road Trip: San Francisco to Carmel'

isogood One of the most famous destinations along this route is an unincorporated community that's long been a resort destination for the well heeled, especially famous for its seven golf courses, such as Cypress Point Club, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Pebble Beach Golf Links, as well as the scenic 17th-Mile-Drive, meandering along the beaches and forests between Monterey and Carmel. There's a $10 fee to enter the area.   read post  

Read more…
0 Replies

8 top golf destinations for families

   Ko Olina Golf Club If dad (and/or mom) want to combine a family vacation with some great golfing, there are a few destinations which offer both top-notch links and a wide menu of other attractions that will appeal to the kids. So everybody's happy - after all, shouldn't that be the whole point of traveling as a family? Here among hundreds of choices across the world I offer you eight of my favorites where family travel dovetails nicely with golf travel - see if you agree, and if you…

Read more…
0 Replies

3 tech tips for golf fans traveling this summer

Golf fans across the globe have a lot to look forward to this summer, which starts with the 2018 US Open today in the Hamptons of Long Island, New York.If it were possible, all the fans would travel to watch the US Open and other upcoming competitions in person. However, for various reasons, watching the games from home is the available option for most fans. Unfortunately, fans traveling this Summer will lack the opportunity to watch the games in person or at home. So, what should they do for…

Read more…
0 Replies

You need to be a member of Tripatini to add comments!

Join Tripatini

Comments are closed.

Comments

  • Dear colleagues,
    I am here to invite you to consider Mauritius as a new destination as your future golf destination. Tropical Experience is a licensed DMC specialised in groups and other ground services. Contact us for your requests. tropical.experience@intnet.mu
  • Osprey Shores Golf Resort is offering a special spring Nova Scotia golf getaway. Book any getaway package this spring and your golf is doubled for free. With ocean views from every fairway and a marauding band of foxes, it's hard to keep your eyes on the ball when you play this enjoyable course. For more information on the Nova Scotia spring golf getaway package:

    http://www.ospreyshoresresort.com/packages
  • Enjoy Punta Del Este´s golf courses! 3 great courses (18 holes each) in one of the trendiest seaside resorts of South America. Beautiful white sand beaches, romantic sunsets, whales from August to October, and golf packages including green fees and a decontracturating massage to end each day. A great experience. Visit our boutique apart hotel at www.apartbda.com - You will probably want to stay forever!
  • Will be in Kenya in late August/early September. Any publications interested in golf courses there?
  • Rwanda has a beautiful 18 holes golf course, well maintained and a challenge for every golfer. The course is situated in the main city of Rwanda, Kigali.
    Playing this course will be an unforgettable experience for you and for sure in combination with a visit to Rwandas main attractions like the Mountain Gorillas, Akagera Game Park, Nyungwe Forest and Lake Kivu.

    But you will find out that Rwanda has much more to offer then this! The woman Intore dancers will show you there graceful dances while the male dancers will show you their impressive movements and high jumps dressed in their traditional outfits.
    Traveling through Rwanda is a safari on it self. The beautiful and diverse landscape with its hills, mountains and vulcanous will amaze you again and again.

    Access Rwanda Safaris can offer you a tailor made trip through Rwanda, combining Gorilla trekking and/or other interesting safaris, with some nice golf playing, even in combination with other golf courses, like for example in Uganda.

    Imagine that you are back home and play your home course again. Would it not be nice to tell your friends that you played at the Kigali Golf Club and met with the Mountain gorillas the other day?


    Rwanda-golf.com
  • Anybody happen to catch this piece in today's Wall Street Journal? Here's a smidgeon:

    "Thanks, Golf Haters—Now Be Quiet
    The Busybodies Who Deride the Sport Should Get a Grip, Preferably on a Club


    Since golf seems to lack an antidefamation league, allow me to note the rise in 2009 of antigolf slurs and other inflammatory "incidents." In February, you may recall, the celebrity Web site TMZ provoked a national outcry by revealing that banks that had received federal bailout funds were hosting clients at PGA Tour events. The resulting mini-movement, led by those most unlikely bedfellows, conservative Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly and liberal Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, caused several corporate sponsors of subsequent events to take down the signs on their hospitality tents, even while the sinful hobnobbing continued inside.

    In April, USA Today published an op-ed piece that pretty much blamed golf for getting us into the current economic pickle and for everything else "that's retrograde with American life." The author, sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, made hay of the fact that disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was a golfer and said that the world would be better off if vegetables instead of turf grass were grown on golf's "useless lawns." In July, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez joined the discussion by spending most of his regular Sunday television show denouncing golf as a bourgeois sport and ridiculing the use of motorized golf carts."

    The rest is at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376400071...
  • thats three of the top 5:) 5 of the top 25:)
  • nice to see my friend tom doak having three courses in golf magazines greatest 50 courses in the last 50 years:) that should move to 4 when the fourth course at bandon opens:)
  • Just caught this in today's Miami Herald. If anybody's played the Robert Trent Jones course on Venezuela's Margarita Island -- well, that's the end of that:

    Chávez looms large over golf: Hugo Chávez's hard-line stand against the `bourgeois sport' has led to the closing of many golf courses

    Venezuelan golf fairways, bunkers and greens have become both the stage of an ideological war headed by President Hugo Chávez and a showcase for the Bolivarian revolution's internal contradictions.

    After a 70-year presence in the country, golf is now the target of criticism and attacks by Chávez administration leaders and organizations.

    Official measures may result in the closing of more golf courses. In the past five years, the number of courses in Venezuela has gone down to 22 from 28, and three more courses may be in line to be closed as well, according to directors of the Venezuelan Golf Federation (VGF).

    Among the closed courses is one the famous designer Robert Trent Jones built on Margarita Island -- the only Venezuelan course certified by the U.S. Professional Golf Association.

    The other five courses no longer operating are located near oil fields in the states of Monagas, Zulia and Falcón. The courses remain inactive because the government does not consider their maintenance a priority.

    http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1199514.html?storyli...
  • Good tips, Vaclav, thanks!
This reply was deleted.