Summer golf is grand in Michigan, but fall might be the best time to tee it up. The courses are more affordable with fall rates kicking in. You can play some top 100-type courses for half the price you'd pay in summer. The courses are less crowded, too.
The Crystal Springs Golf Resort caters to golfers of all ages, interests and budgets. You don't have to look far to find bliss at this unique golf destination tucked deep in northern New Jersey mountains less than 50 miles from New York City, Jason Scott Deegan writes.
You've heard of Northern Michigan's Crystal Lake because of prestigious Crystal Downs. But did you know its eastern side has three welcoming and affordable courses?
If you play golf in the Tampa/St. Pete area, you're rewarded with amazing land diversity encompassing everything from abandoned rock quarries to pine-dotted, North Carolina-style terrain and quintessential palm and palmetto-studded terrain. For those who've never visited the area, however, it's sometimes befuddling to get around as you navigate long bridges over bays and state and county roads that lead to smaller towns with great golf courses.
Sometimes you just want to get away from the city that never sleeps. If you're a golfer, that means a road trip, and fortunately, great golf experiences aren't terribly far away.
Planning a drive-to golf vacation from Toronto is not easy. But there are plenty of destinations to choose from, spring through fall, within a six-hour drive.
When asked to come up with my 10 favorite golf courses in northern Michigan, I took a mulligan and included 15 -- I just couldn't narrow it down! Don't consider this a "best-of" list, merely a personal guide to the 15 courses I love to play.
Fall, of course, is for football. But if your team is playing the early game on Sunday -- schedule a morning round and watch the game. Here's a look at the AFC East and where Golf Advisor readers recommend you play.
The staff at Golf Advisor has visited almost every golf resort in America over the years and has come up with a blueprint that every golf resort should follow.
Until a few months ago, there was no golf in La Paz, Mexico. But thanks in part to desalinization, a less water-hungry paspalum turf for warm weather courses and some developers' persistence, there is golf in La Paz now, at the Paraiso Del Mar resort, and more on the way, Brandon Tucker writes in his latest "Planet Putter" column.
While golfers understandably flock to courses in Florida designed by architecture icons such as Dye, Fazio and Nicklaus, the Sunshine State also has impressive layouts by lesser known designers. If you've never played a course designed by architects such as John Sanford, Mike Dasher, Gordon Lewis, Gary Koch and Bill Amick, you haven't fully experienced great Florida golf. Luckily, courses by unfamiliar designers are located in different parts of the state so you don't have to travel far regardless of where you are.
With Sept. 22 marking the first official day of fall, we've collected a gallery of images that celebrate the changing of the leaves on golf courses around the country.
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