Cross Country Check-Up: Dropping In For Golf In Eastern Canada
The last year and a half have impacted the entire planet. For most of us, the pandemic has kept us much closer to home. More golf games at home are never a bad thing but …[More]
Golf Travel
Travel Bites: Daytona Beach Building On Golf Roots
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. — Golf is a game that reveres its rich history. From the Golden Age of design to the competitive exploits of Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer and their peers, golf ensures that its heroes …[More]
Golf Travel – The Lost Hole at Southern Pines
Southern Pines, N.C. – While many things is golf had a bit of pause over the last year or so, work continues at some golf courses who look to welcome back a flood of travelers …[More]
Links & Lagers: Pairing Up Breweries & Golf Courses in Eastern Ontario – Part II
Golf is thirsty work. More like fun, but as we all well aware, many who play the sport enjoy adding an extra hole to their round, the 19th hole. That’s why last month we debuted …[More]
Golf Travel: Myrtle Beach’s Granddaddy Getting A New Look
Pine Lakes Country Club, Myrtle Beach’s First Course, Undergoing Greens, Bunker Restoration Project Historic Layout Slated To Reopen In Early July MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Myrtle Beach’s “Granddaddy” is getting a facelift this summer. Pine Lakes …[More]
Golf Travel with The Preferred Lie: Major Detour – Southern Pines (Pinehurst)
It’s no secret that the team here at Flagstick love the Pinehurst area of North Carolina. Many trips and the stories that came of them has cemented it as one of the best destinations in …[More]
Way Out West…The Beauty That Is Pender Harbour
The golf offerings in Canada are vast. In fact, most golfers rarely see more than a few dozen layouts in their lifetime or play in more than a few provinces, states, territories, or countries. With …[More]
Glimpses of Northern Ireland: Living Up To The Hype
Due to the current health pandemic in the world, a golf trip to Northern Ireland is not a likely scenario right now. That said, when it becomes an option again, don’t miss out. Before the …[More]
On The Thompson Trail– Publicly Accessible Stanley Thompson Courses In Ontario
Golfers who do not belong to the world of private club golf are painfully aware that often some of the best course designs are not available for everyone to play. But sometimes they are. In …[More]
Links & Lagers: Pairing Up Breweries & Golf Courses in Eastern Ontario
In the 1990s, the golf scene in Eastern Ontario was at its zenith. At that point there were some 170 golf courses within a 2 hour drive of the National Capital. Since then the golf …[More]
(Travel Flashback) Panamanian Golf: Stunning Central America
(This article first appeared in Flagstick in 2018. We’d like to showcase some destinations again so when it is safe to travel freely again, you have some places to check out.) It’s been minutes since …[More]
Golf – The Game At Its Best
—How A Day In Sun Came To Mean So Much More— By Chris Stevenson I grew up playing a golf course, Grovehill in Lachine, Que., where there seemed to be close to as much asphalt …[More]
Golf Travel: Champions Course at La Costa Resort To Be Renovated
The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Committees has selected Omni La Costa Resort & Spa, in Carlsbad, California as the host site for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf …[More]
New Accommodations The Latest Highlight at North Carolina’s Dormie Club
Dormie Club, located just minutes from North Carolina’s historic Village of Pinehurst, has unveiled three new cottages along the 18th hole of its Bill Coore-Ben Crenshaw-designed golf course. The cottages — two standard and one executive — include …[More]
Golf Architecture: Thai Golf Course Looking To Past For Future Success
BANGKOK, Thailand — The Lido Club has been gone some 80 years now, but never was it forgotten. This mythic 18 from the hand of American design pioneers Charles Blair MacDonald and Seth Raynor opened …[More]
Golf Travel: Five Spooky Spots in Golf
Over the last 25+ years travelling for work in the golf industry there have been more than a few places where I have found myself with the chills. Whether it was the setting, the confirmed …[More]
Tantalizing Ten – Scenic Golf Courses in The York Durham Headwaters of Ontario
With many Ontario golfers staying closer to home this year; we thought we would start to delve a little deeper into the more than 800 golf courses that dot the province. Not far from the …[More]
Golf Travel: Canadian Golf Dreaming
A period of isolation, when you cannot travel as freely as normal, digs away at the recesses of the mind. That may consist of personal and professional regrets, and for golfers, of opportunities lost or …[More]
Donald Ross’ Last Design To Get Facelift
w/ Brad King RALEIGH, NC (May 2020) — Raleigh Country Club, the final golf course designed by legendary architect Donald Ross, is undergoing a major renovation. Earlier this year, McConnell Golf — owner of a dozen 18-hole, …[More]
Golf Travel: Five To Play Again
As we all know by now, a Pandemic is a strange time, one that gets you thinking about many things. Beyond safety, security, health, friends, and family, my mind has often wandered to the travel …[More]