Orlando's Grand Cypress Resort is back on top of Power Rankings for the week of April 20. This time it's the Scottish-inspired New Course's turn to shine.
With spring in full blossom across most of the U.S., we decided to break out which courses received the most love from Golf Advisor reviewers during the first full month of the season.
If you can't get across the pond to St. Andrews, you can settle for the next best thing. Here are four U.S. golf courses that feature replica or tribute holes to St. Andrews.
After checking out the newest addition at Streamsong Resort, Gil Hanse's Black Course, senior writer Mike Bailey pays a visit to Saddlebrook, Grand Cypress and Shingle Creek.
Most golfers who take an Orlando vacation aren't going just for golf. When you consider Disney, Universal, Sea World and all the other attractions Central Florida has to offer, golf can sometimes get squeezed. If you need to cram 36 holes into one day, here are your best options for multi-course facilities that will satisfy your double-looping desire.
In a nod to the golf industry's big week in Orlando, the PGA Merchandise Show, we've dug into recent ratings to find the top courses in Orlando so far this winter.
Forget Napa Valley. Forget Sonoma Valley. If it is a wine and golf excursion you are looking for try the Central Coast of California -- some 120 miles of coastline loaded with quaint, friendly, seaside and inland towns and affordable golf, including La Purisma in Lompoc, Hunter Ranch in Paso Robles and Cypress Ridge in Arroyo Grande.
Overlooking Point Pinos and the Pacific Ocean, it's almost unfathomable that you can play Pacific Grove Golf Links for around $40 or less. But you're unlikely to find a better deal anywhere in the country, especially anything on the ocean. It's a golf course you should play at least once on any trip to the Monterey Peninsula, Mike Bailey writes.
Three new South Carolina private clubs - The Tree Farm, Old Barnwell and Cypress Shoals - will likely capitalize from their proximity to Augusta National.
The New Course at Grand Cypress Resort is Jack Nicklaus' tribute to the Old Course at St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf. While it's not a copy hole-for-hole, the feel of the golf course does indeed invoke the feel of the Old Course. Bring plenty of imagination and short-game skill, and you'll have a lot of fun.
There's only one championship-level course in the St. Petersburg municipal golf department, and it's very popular. Busy seven days a week, not only do locals and visitors flock to play Mangrove Bay Golf Course, but they love to take advantage of the extensive practice facilities as well. The course winds around natural mangroves just a few hundred yards from the bay.
At the Innisbrook resort in Palm Harbor, Florida, the PGA Tour host Copperhead gets most of the love. But the Island Course is also a worthy championship examination.
Poppy Hills Golf Course was originally built in 1986, but in 2013, spurred by the need to replace the course's irrigation system, Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Architects embarked on a major renovation project. The new design cuts water consumption by reducing the area of irrigated turf while at the same time lengthening the course from 6,857 yards to more than 7,000. Beyond the environmental improvements, the layout was also reinvented to incorporate new and different challenges.
Many of legendary course architect Alister MacKenzie's finest designs, like Augusta National and Cypress Point, are private. Here are seven you can play.
Saddlebrook Resort, set on a scenic 480 acres just north of Tampa in Wesley Chapel, is home to two 18-hole golf courses. The original Saddlebrook Course, which opened in 1976, features gentler, flatter land compared to the more sculpted Palmer Course, and the result is a more traditional, old-Florida feel.
The Golf Channel Am Tour's 2016 Major Championships schedule boasts gems like TPC Sawgrass, Pinehurst, Kiawah, Chambers Bay, PGA West, Blackwolf Run, Innisbrook and more.
Matt Ginella recently revisited Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Canada, the Coore and Crenshaw course slated to open in 2015. He says it's bound to be mentioned in any discussion of the world's best golf courses.
One of the most accessible courses on the PGA Tour schedule, check out photos of Pete Dye-designed TPC Louisiana, host of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
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