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| Travelin’ Joe’s list of No. 1s |
9/9/2010: Golf.com senior editor Joe Passov travels and plays golf for a living. Hey, somebody’s got to do it.
So, what trips, courses, hotels, pubs and experiences make his list of No. 1s in golf?
For a buddy trip, he picks Oreg... |
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| Rough Treatment Will Toughen No. 2 |
| 9/7/2010: Pinehurst No. 2 returning to its original form |
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| In the Finger Lakes, Enjoying a Master’s Vision |
| 8/30/2010: A tour of courses in upstate New York shows off the work of the famed golf architect Robert Trent Jones. |
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| Nicklaus launches travel site |
| 8/31/2010: The Nicklaus Cos. and Emagineering LLC have partnered to create a Web site that provides information on more than 130 Nicklaus Design courses and the ability to arrange stay-and-play packages at those courses. |
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| Take your pick of five courses at PGA National |
| 8/18/2010: PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Five courses. One designed by Arnold Palmer. Another redesigned by Jack Nicklaus. Another is considered a thinking man’s course, another welcomes players of all abilities, and the fifth challenges you with water hazards on all b... |
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| For $9, it was 9 holes to remember |
| 8/15/2010: PLYMOUTH, Wis. - It’s not always about where you play golf. Sometimes, it’s just about playing. Sunday morning dawned bright and clear and breezy. After a week of humid, sweltering conditions, a real Wisconsin summer day finally broke out. The... |
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| PGA: Elling: For Bubba, good times and post-round tears |
| 8/12/2010: He cried after winning the Travelers. The water works flow again after an opening-round 68 at the PGA Championship. But don’t worry about Bubba Watson. He’s having a breakthrough year and he’s having fun doing it, Steve Elling says. |
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| Heartland hideaways: Crazy ’bout Detroit |
| 8/11/2010: Detroit has taken its share of post-industrial age licks. But Motown’s golf scene still stacks up. Less than $50 buys a quality round within an hour’s drive of downtown. Native son David Weiss reports. |
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| Five must-play golf courses around St. Andrews |
| 7/17/2010: With the 139th British Open returning to the Old Course at St. Andrews, many of us wish to play the storied course that offers public access. But what if you didn’t make the Old Course ballot this time around? |
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| St. Andrews offers experience of a lifetime |
| 7/5/2010: As the British Open returns to golf’s ancestral roots, St. Andrews offers visitors the experience of a lifetime. Martin Kaufmann explains. |
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| AT&T: Justin Rose hangs on to win |
7/4/2010: Clinging to a one-shot lead, Justin Rose stood over his tee shot on the 18th hole at the AT&T National when he heard fireworks in the distance. The celebration had started somewhere in Philadelphia, just not Aronimink.
Ro... |
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| Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort in NE PA is a classic |
| 6/30/2010: Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort in NE Pennsylvania is classic American golf |
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| Travelers had playoff between longest and shortest hitters |
| 6/28/2010: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/golf/making-sense-of-the-pga/article1620956/ |
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| PGA Tour Confidential: The Travelers Championship |
6/27/2010: Every week of the 2010 PGA Tour season, the editorial staff of the SI Golf Group will conduct an e-mail roundtable. Check in on Mondays for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors and join the conversation in the comments section below. |
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| PGA Tour: Bubba Watson wins Travelers Championship in playoff for first career P |
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| PGA Tour: Justin Rose leads Travelers Championship by three strokes |
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| Pacific Grove: Monterey’s marvelous muni |
| 6/24/2010: Not a fan of Pebble Beach’s $495 green fees? Look no further than Pacific Grove, a mecca for the budget-minded just up the road from Pebble. |
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| A slimmer, focused Daly back at Travelers |
| 6/23/2010: Many golfers see the week after the U.S. Open as an opportunity to take a break from the grind of the PGA Tour. Others see it as an opportunity to prove they can win there. |
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| America’s 20 most brutal public courses |
| 6/17/2010: Travel |
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| Finding America, One Fairway at a Time |
| 6/12/2010: The mission for 18-year-old Dylan Dethier was travel, golf and blog. Taking a year off before college, he tried to play golf in each of the 48 contiguous states. |
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| Prairie Club delivers pure Sand Hills experience |
| 6/7/2010: The Prairie Club in remote Valentine, Neb., is a $34 million project with only $6 million in debt. How did it attract investors? By not being another real-estate play aimed at the mass golf market. |
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| Behind-the-scenes: Bandon’s Old Macdonald |
| 6/1/2010: Travel |
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| Web-extra Video: Bandon Dunes Debuts Old Macdonald |
| 5/28/2010: Mark Rolfing, host of Global Golf Adventure, a new golf and travel show on NBC, travels to the oldest British overseas territory of Bermuda. He interviews British Open Champion and frequent visitor Stewart Cink on what he loves most about this golf paradis... |
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| Why I Play Where I Play: The Vagabond Golfer |
5/26/2010: After he resigned his membership at a private club about five years ago, Steve Shaffer became something of a “vagabond” golfer.
"I no longer had a home course where I had regular group of golfing friends and a place to hang," writ... |
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| 20 best golf resorts in Carolinas |
| 5/25/2010: Travel |
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| Caddie’s advice: Relax and travel light |
| 5/24/2010: http://onpar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/follow-a-caddies-advice-relax-and-travel-light/?ref=sports |
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| Global Golf Adventure: Playing Hawaii |
| 5/14/2010: Whether you’re heading to Hawaii this year or just dreaming about it, these are the most picturesque golf courses on the island |
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| Trevino to Tiger: Call me |
| 5/11/2010: In the first round of the Players Championship last week, on the par-4 seventh hole, Tiger Woods stood on the tee, brought the club back, transitioned it forward while dipping his head, and hit a fat 3-wood that traveled only 190 yards and barely reached t... |
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| Golfweek’s Best: Tour Courses You Can Play |
| 4/22/2010: Golfers, unlike fans of other sports, have the rare privilege of playing on the same fields as some of the game’s top professionals. As this list shows, that never has been more true. |
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| Sneak preview: Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes |
| 4/22/2010: Travel |
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| Volcano-related delays no problem for travelers ’trapped’ in St. Andrews |
4/21/2010: ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- With a howling wind at his back, Ramsey McCreary nailed a drive well past Granny Clark’s Wynd, about 25 yards short of the 18th green, on Tuesday morning at The Old Course in St. Andrews. -- Fred Couples and Tom Watson are featured on the larger-than-life Mitsubishi Electric Championship posters that greet travelers at tiny Kona International Airport.<img src=) |
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| The most diabolical links in the country |
| 1/21/2010: Travel |
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| AP: Ernie Els says he’s scaling back travel schedule for 2010 |
| 1/14/2010: Ernie Els sounds as though he finally is going to make good on his promise to cut back his enormous travel schedule as he pursues trophies and appearance money across the world. |
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| Buddies, bargains and Bandon Dunes |
| 1/6/2010: The winter deal at Oregon’s Bandon Dunes Resort really is poetic. |
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| Courses & Travel 2009 Year in Review |
| 12/14/2009: Here are some of the highlights from 2009 |
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| 2009 Best Casino Courses |
| 12/11/2009: Travel |
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| 2009 Best Casino Courses |
| 12/11/2009: Travel |
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| Scotscraig: Tough links golf, but with a twist |
| 12/8/2009: When Scotscraig Golf Club was founded in 1817, there were only 12 other golf clubs in existence in the entire world. Yet for all of its history, Scotscraig has never really gained the fame and popularity it so rightly deserves. Located only 10 miles away f... |
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| 10 best golf retirement communities |
| 1/5/2010: travel |
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| Barcelona and the Costa Brava: A winning combo |
| 11/24/2009: Thoughts of a golf trip across the Atlantic might suggest 7 days of isolation in the rural hinterlands, away from the civilized world, with nothing but sheep, a few ruined castles, cold rain and a biting wind gusting in from the gray colored sea. For those... |
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| Pick of the prime-time golf on Spain’s Costa Brava |
| 11/24/2009: The Costa Brava translates into English as "The Wild Coast", an appropriate name for one of Spain’s most spectacular shorelines, extending some 80 miles from Blanes (located about 30 miles northeast of Barcelona) following the Mediterranean Sea to the Fren... |
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| Bandon and Scotch a good mix |
| 1/5/2010: Bandon Dunes is the ideal place to learn about links golf – and single-malt Scotch. |
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| Cape Fear (N.C.) National set to open |
| 11/23/2009: Cape Fear National is scheduled to open Nov. 28 in Leland, N.C., and Superstition Mountain (Ariz.) Golf and Country Club also will open two new courses soon. In other course news, the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club has entered into new partnerships. |
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| Exploring golf on Mexico’s Riviera Maya |
| 11/17/2009: Mexico’s Riviera Maya is making a lot of noise for the quality of is golf. |
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| Maui: Winter golf doesn’t get any better. Book it, Danno! |
| 1/5/2010: Forget about Haleakala, the dormant volcano that climbs 10,000 feet above Maui -- the most dominant feature of this island is the great golf. Maui boasts more than a dozen big-time courses, and the island is surprisingly top-heavy with pro tournament venue... |
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| Doral upgrades continue |
| 11/13/2009: Despite having five golf courses, 700 rooms, a huge spa, more than 110,000 square feet of meeting space and one of the country’s most famous golf schools, Doral Golf Resort & Spa for years has been defined by one thing: the Blue Monster Course. |
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| Golf’s greatest |
| 11/8/2009: Travel |
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| Where duffers dare to dream |
| 1/4/2010: Travel |
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| Buddies trips: Tips to make them better |
| 11/6/2009: Travel |
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| Buddies trips: Let’s make a deal |
| 11/6/2009: Travel |
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| Buddies trips: The time of your life |
| 11/6/2009: Travel |
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| Players paid stipend for canceled Viking Classic |
| 11/5/2009: he PGA Tour is providing a $4,000 stipend for travel expenses to each of the 132 players in the Viking Classic, which was canceled because of recurring wet conditions, tournament director Randy Watkins confirmed. |
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| Long Weekend: Mystic, Conn. |
| 10/31/2009: Travel |
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| 18 Best Match Play Courses |
| 10/31/2009: Travel |
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| 75 Best Golf Resorts in America |
| 10/29/2009: Travel |
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| 2009 Golfweek’s Best New Courses |
| 10/17/2009: Wondering which new links are worth a shot? Golfweek’s raters have pegged the 40 best golf courses opened around the country in the last two years, like top-ranked Rock Creek Cattle Co. in Deer Lodge, Mont. |
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| Presidents Cup offers a glimpse of golf at 2016 Olympics |
| 10/9/2009: SAN FRANCISCO -- The news from Copenhagen early Friday morning that golf will return as an official Olympic sport at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (and will also be part of the 2020 games) traveled faster than Usain Bolt.
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| “Destination Golf” makes crash landing |
| 9/24/2009: As a general rule, I enjoy watching travel shows, particularly if they’re hosted by an attractive blonde. |
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| Readers’ Choice Awards: Top 50 Resorts |
9/23/2009: Golf World is out with its 2010 Readers Choice Awards. Tops among resorts is Kiawah Island in South Carolina. In this area? Forgetaboutit.
One interesting tidbit is that Pebble Beach (photo), where a round will set... |
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| Readers’ Choice Awards: Top 50 Public Courses |
9/23/2009: Golf World is out with it’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards. Tops among publics is Forest Dunes in Michigan.
The closest to us are: No. 18 Baywood Greens in Long Neck, Del.;, No. 19 Bulle Rock (ph... |
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| Old Macdonald at Bandon Dunes |
| 9/21/2009: Golf Digest Senior Travel Editor, Matt Ginella, gets a tour of Old Macdonald, the new fourth course at Bandon Dunes. The tour guides are Ken Nice, Superintendent, and Jeff Brinegar, Head Pro. |
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| Walker Cup: For Captain Marucci, focus on team chemistry |
8/21/2009: As USA Walker Cup captain George “Buddy” Marucci traveled to Ireland in 2007, one perpetual thought went through his head.
As Ken Klavon of the USGA writes, it wasn’t whether Marucci had the right playin... |
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| Vijay Singh drops Stanford logos at AT&T National |
| 7/1/2009: Vijay Singh has been spotted at this week’s AT&T National without the logos of Stanford Financial, according to CNBC’s Darren Rovell. Singh had been wearing the logos on his shirt and visor as recently as last week at the Travelers... |
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| Travelers Championship: Record Setting Score For Perry |
| 6/28/2009: With a final-round seven-under 63 Perry delivered a knockout blow to third-round leader Paul Goydos and won by three strokes. |
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| Green honored at Travelers |
| 6/27/2009: http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=15100&select=30342 |
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