Wallace Adams Golf Course at Little Ocmulgee State Park Are you looking for golf deals in all the wrong places?While cost conscious golf travelers, understandably, flock to golf trails and budget resorts, there are also money-saving deals and great golf to be found at state parks, especially in Georgia.If you like excellent golf with...
Go To the Masters: The Ultimate Spectator Experience
I don’t care if you can’t break 120. If you’re passionate about golf on any level, you absolutely must go to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.Amazingly, in more than two decades of writing about golf travel, I had never been to the Masters. Suffice it to say, it was a glaring void in...
10 Masters Tournament Don’ts
Here are 10 things you absolutely shouldn’t do if you want to be an honorable fan, I mean patron: 1. Don’t refer to your fellow spectators as fans. At the Masters they’re always called “patrons”. 2. If you’re tired and want to lay down for a spell. DON’T. It’s bad manners and etiquette to...
The Greatest Show on Turf: Ryder Cup 2016
I’ve been to a World Series, Orange Bowl game, NCAA basketball tournament games, major NASCAR races and a host of other big time sports events.My best sports spectator experience, however, was the 2014 Ryder Cup matches at Gleneagles in Scotland. Nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to the patriotic fervor, passion and drama of...
5 Places to Play Golf While the Dollar is Strong
Remember the great Kool & The Gang song “Celebration”?Well, it’s time to start singing it: “Let’s celebrate, it’s all right….”The U.S. dollar has been gaining strength of late and I’ve got a list of countries where the golf is superb at a very happy price (when you consider the excellent exchange rates).Here are Five...