The Forest Hills Resort offers 280 RV and mobile home sites and hopes to expand to eventually offer more than 550. It is not open for public camping, only to members of organizations such as Coast to Coast, RPI or AOR. Guests rent the RV spaces seasonally (May to October) or buy a park model that looks like a small home. The resort is home to the…
The Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort is located just east of the Texas Capital City of Austin, Texas, and only 10 miles east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Located on the banks of the Lower Colorado River, Hyatt Regency Lost Pines features 18 holes of championship golf designed by Arthur Hills that highlights a wide assortment of ways…
Heritage Hotel, Golf, Spa, Conference Center is situated equidistant from New York and Boston, offering the chance to explore the New England countryside’s forest, rivers and hills. This 163-room retreat features two golf courses; an indoor and outdoor heated, salt water swimming pool; athletic club and spa, 21 meeting rooms, plus multiple dining…
Tucked below the mountains and overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Real del Mar Hotel & Golf Resort offers a scenic and relaxing beachfront getaway with something for everyone. Guests can choose from five different types of rooms, all bright and spacious, with views of the forest, golf course or ocean. The resort features a variety of dining options,…
Less than 25 miles from the Hot Air Balloon International Festival, León’s Cathedral, and downtown León, Hotel Vergel de la Sierra offers a peaceful escape with rustic architecture and cozy accommodations overlooking serene lakes, rolling hills and a 500-year-old forest. This mountain retreat features a spa, tennis courts, hiking trails, horseback…
Forest Hills Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. has managed to retain its place in the game's history and still remain relevant today. The Donald Ross design, which was established in 1926, is steeped with tradition. Play this course whenever you get a chance. It's one of those places that you could never grow tired of playing. You'll find something different on every visit, Stan Awtrey writes.
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.
Northern Michigan includes as many notable golf plays as any destination in the world. And many of golf's biggest names have unveiled designs here. The region provides a setting ideal for beautiful, dramatic golf designs, thanks to lots of cheap land, rolling terrain, dense forests and sometimes even hilly courses built adjacent to ski slopes. Brandon Tucker offers your blueprint to Northern Michigan courses designed by the biggest names in the business.
The Arthur Hills Course at Palmetto Hall Plantation Club is no slouch, Brandon Tucker writes. This Hilton Head Island gem plays a manageable 6,900 yards from the championship tees, though its tight fairways and hazards still pose as a formidable challenge.
We looked at golfer ratings and reviews to determine the Top 25 golf courses in Florida in 2016. The list features courses from destinations such as Orlando, Streamsong and Destin.
Perhaps if not for its big sister in Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill Golf Course would receive consideration for a major championship. It's that good, especially the opening stretch of five holes, which ranks, arguably, as the best in golf. Don't sell short this historic gem, though, Mikes Bailey writes. It offers beauty and challenges beyond the great views of the Pacific Ocean.
As golf courses across Canada officially begin opening for the 2015 golf season, we're announcing the top courses in Ontario as rated by golfers on Golf Advisor.
Two of the largest and most reputable golf resorts in Texas can be found just west of Austin. But if you want something more low-key, there's a new option for golfers visiting the city check out.
The Show Me State features plenty of great golf, from Branson and the Ozarks to metro St. Louis and Kansas City. View the top-rated courses in Missouri for 2016.
Other than missing a handful of big-timers, northern Michigan features a list of golf course designers as good as any destination in the country. All the usual suspects who dominate top 100 lists are well represented. But what are the best of the best? Jason Scott Deegan offers up northern Michigan's 10 best "designer" golf courses.
River Hills Golf & Country Club is one of your better bang-for-your-buck courses on the Grand Strand, thanks to rolling, scenic terrain and a very fair Tom Jackson design. It's not as flashy as some of its more renowned (and expensive) neighbors, but there are some three-figure courses in Myrtle Beach that aren't kept up as well.
Unless you previously held a cabinet position in Washington or are the CEO of a large corporation, you're unlikely to ever get the opportunity to play golf at Augusta National. Good news, though. Although you may never get to test the tricky winds at Amen Corner, you do have plenty of golf options when you visit Augusta, Ga. It won't be the place with the pimento cheese sandwiches in the green wrappers, but it's not bad. Veteran Georgia sports writer Stan Awtrey suggests six must-play golf courses in the Augusta area.
Potomac Shores Golf Club, an upscale public course in Dumfries, Va., is set on rolling, forested hills on the banks of the Potomac. Almost every hole on this Jack Nicklaus design is encircled by dense forest, and very few holes are very flat. Most tee shots feature beautiful, elevated vantage points. Greens are large and undulating, so precision on approach shots is the key here.
Spyglass Hill Golf Course seems destined to forever be a bridesmaid on the loaded Monterey Peninsula. The Robert Trent Jones Sr. design would be the star attraction just about anywhere else. Jason Scott Deegan has more.
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.
Raven's Claw Golf Club in Limerick Township is one of southeastern Pennsylvania's premier golf destinations. The course consistently ranks in the top 10 golf courses in Pennsylvania. Carved from rolling hills and mature forests, this Ed Shearon design requires creative shot-making skills.
Owned and operated by the Byron Forest Preserve District, PrairieView Golf Club sprawls across gently rolling hills dappled with native prairie grasses and wildflowers. The landscape lends itself to a variety of holes from some that are tight and tree lined to others that are wide open with a links-style design.
True North is one of the newest courses to come to northern Michigan's rich golf scene. It originally opened in 2004 as a private club, but has recently opened its doors into a more semi-private model. The terrain is quintessential northern Michigan, with hills and thick forests.
Playing Twisted Dune Golf Club Egg Harbor Township feels like taking a mini-vacation to Scotland. The traditional links layout is virtually treeless, in keeping with Scottish seaside golf courses, while providing a different option from the abundant forested layouts that line the Jersey Shore.
Desert Pines Golf Club makes the most of limited land to create the feeling of a traditional country club nestled into the pine-forested hills of North Carolina rather than Las Vegas. But Desert Pines isn't just any country club. With a two-tier practice range and beautiful female caddies -- AKA Parmates -- it's got bling, like everything else in Sin City.
Maderas Golf Club is not only one of the top public courses in San Diego, it is considered one of the best in California. Spread across the inland hills of north San Diego, its location off the beaten path in Poway hasn't prevented it from being a local favorite since opening in 2000.
Broad Run Golfer's Club, located just outside of West Chester, Pa., is a Rees Jones-designed gem that was carefully sculpted from 372 acres of rolling hills. The expansive golf course is not what you would expect to find so close to downtown Philly. The dramatic terrain serves as the centerpiece of the course, providing the holes with plenty of movement and stunning views that stretch across the surrounding countryside.
The Craddock and Hankins courses at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon join The Loop at Forest Dunes Golf Club in Michigan as golf's modern reversible golf courses.
The Craddock and Hankins courses at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon join The Loop at Forest Dunes Golf Club in Michigan as golf's modern reversible golf courses.
The 200-foot drop from 18th tee to the fairway at Glen Ivy Golf Club in Corona, Calif. is the biggest on any course in the U.S. You'll watch in awe as your ball soars for up to 10 seconds before falling back to earth. That moment is magic, but it's hardly the only highlight on this Ted Robinson Sr. design.
Bye holes" -- an extra par 3 traditionally built at the end of an 18-hole routing -- are a great bonus perk. They help settle bets and give golfers one more shot at an ace. Here are some of North America's best.
Long before Bandon Dunes, Chambers Bay and Whistling Straits, The Links at Spanish Bay was the face of links golf in America. The dunes, firm-and-fast conditions, winds off the water and stunning ocean scenery are all reminiscent of a Scottish links. Jason Scott Deegan has more from Pebble Beach, Calif.
Pine Canyon remains one of the most exclusive private clubs and master-planned golf communities in Arizona. Premium amenities abound and the golf course is a striking Jay Morrish design with dramatic elevation changes and backdrops of the San Francisco Peaks.
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