There are all kinds of reasons you could be visiting Tallahassee, from a sports event to meetings at the capitol. Perhaps you're here for a wedding, or to run in the Tallahassee Marathon. Whatever the case, you've got some time on your hands and want to sneak in a little golf. You'll need to rent clubs and you're looking for affordable green fees. Katharine Dyson has some of your top options.
Forest Greens Golf Club in Triangle, Va., may seem like a private club, but in reality, it's a daily-fee track with perks like on-course beverage services and a large practice area. It's a fair course, without a whole lot of tricky drama or hidden treachery. With big, welcoming fairways and huge, modestly fast greens, this is a golf course you can enjoy again and again.
Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri is famous among anglers and boaters as an almost year-round mecca of aquatic fun. But golfers, especially in the Midwest, should consider it as an almost year-round golf destination, too. With some 15 courses dotting the countryside, there are as many golf holes to explore as there are fishing holes. And if non-golfing family members tag along, they'll have just as many off-course attractions to explore, Kiel Christianson writes.
Golf courses in California's Coachella Valley and Phoenix-Scottsdale are hotbeds of overseeding, but it's a common, and sometimes controversial, practice throughout the southern United States.
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