South Africa Ladies and gentlemen, start your packing!I’m predicting 2017 will be a great golf travel year. Last week (November 14-18), the U.S. dollar was at its highest rate in 14 years so American travelers will, no doubt, take advantage of this promising turn of events. Plus, golf travel is easier than ever to...
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
1. Don’t refer to your fellow spectators as fans. At the Masters they’re always called “patrons”. 4. Don’t wear your hat backwards like a rapper. In 2011, Rickie Fowler was asked to turn his hat around before a pre-tournament press conference. 7. Don’t try and scalp tickets. Anyone caught selling or handing off tickets...
5 Reasons Why The Masters is Bigger Than Tiger Woods
When Tiger announced his bad back would keep him out of the 2014 Masters, you would of thought some media members wanted to cancel the whole thing and just tee it up next year. Not so fast, my friends. Like most fans, I can’t celebrate my spring without a healthy dose of azaleas, Magnolia...
Top 10 Golf Fashion Don’ts
Golf fashion has evolved rapidly in the past few years. I mean, just look at Rickie Fowler in his fluorescent outfits, John Daly in his Loudmouth pants and all the Swede pros with their skinny pants… Let’s face it, though, popular PGA Tour pros can get away with it. Others can’t. Like these guys…...