Category Archives: Golf Travel & Leisure

Hacking around at the U.S. Hickory Open Golf Championship

Hacking around at the U.S. Hickory Open Written by Bo Turocy. Photographs by Hannah Fontenot Mentz. The 11th annual U.S. Hickory Open hosted by the Society of Hickory Golfers just wrapped up on Halloween.  The 36-hole stroke play event was contested across the 1926 Donald Ross layout at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, NC.  This […]

Visit Vibrant Vermont in November

The Values of Visiting Vermont  By Edward Kiersh Here in November golf is a distant memory but there is Julia Ceasar, bars teeming with young people, edgy art galleries, and if all else fails, a windswept stroll along Lake Champlain. Julia and her two cohorts were found in an art gallery blasting Southern rock, and […]

The Belle of the Bay – Belleair Country Club Florida

Belleair Country Club, Florida’s First Golf Club By Mike Dojc “That’s Donald ‘F’ Ross for you,” playfully grouses my playing partner while shrugging his shoulders.  He tacked on the fictional middle initial, voiced with emphasis as a pejorative, after one too many times of his approach shots failed to hold one of the golf architecture […]

4 Golf Courses to play on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

Fuerteventura is the perfect winter golf escapade Situated on the Moroccan offshore, Fuerteventura is well-known as a plebiscite for wind and kite-surfers but rarely golfers. With four golf courses spread over the second biggest island of the Canary Islands, it would be a sliced shot landing out of bounds to avoid it during your next […]