Located south of Tucson in the town of Green Valley is Canoa Ranch Golf Resort, located next to Canoa Ranch Golf Club. This 94-unit resort features guest rooms and 1- and 2-bedroom suites. A buffet breakfast is included with rooms. Other amenities include a fitness center and outdoor pool. The golf course was designed by the team of Schmidt-Curley…
Tucked into the Carmel Valley, the charming Quail Lodge & Golf Club is a maze of covered outdoor walkways, all beautifully landscaped with flowers, that leads to 93 guestrooms, a nine-hole putting course, bocce ball, tennis and pickleball courts and a heated swimming pool. Its scenic course, redesigned by Todd Echenrode in 2015, is a short walk up…
Etowah Valley Golf & Resort is a 27-hole golf course in western North Carolina near Hendersonville in the Southern Highlands. The 240-acre property is home to a 27-hole golf course, 65 hotel rooms and two cottages sleeping 6-10 people. A casual tavern is located onsite as well as an event's center. In addition to the 27-hole course designed in the…
The Golf Courses of Lawsonia in Green Lake is one of Wisconsin’s greatest golf treasures. The Links is a classic inland links of blind shots, mounding and incredible hilly topography to challenge and engage the best of players. The newer Woodlands course delivers a contrasting viewpoint with tons of trees and more elevation changes. It’s a…
Virginia's Massanutten Resort is located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley and is a four-seasons's getaway with skiing in the wintertime. The resort features a main hotel and numerous villages where a variety of condominium-style accommodations are available with full kitchens. Guests at Massanutten have access to not only two golf courses but…
The Wisp Resort’s 172 acres of ski terrain are heaven for winter-sports enthusiasts, but this resort offers so much more year-round. It is an outdoor playground for all ages thanks to Deep Creek Lake and an endless array of mountainous adventures: canopy tours, segways, mountain biking, a mountain coaster, disc golf, 36 holes of regular golf, gem…
The Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas is part of the Station Casinos family that includes the Boulder Station, Green Valley Ranch Resort, Palace Station, Santa Fe, Sunset Station, Wild Wild West and Wildfires Gaming locations. The Four-Diamond Red Rock offers rooms, suites, penthouses and villas for guests, as well as multiple restaurants, casino and…
The Woods, located 90 minutes from Washington D.C. and Baltimore, provides an escape into nature. The property's 1,800 acres sit at the gateway to the Shenandoah Valley. Cottages and vacation homes are the lodging options. The 6,600-yard Mountain View Course is complemented by the shorter Stony Lick, a par 62 of 3,700 yards. Beyond golf,…
The newest university course to open, the latest on two new projects in California, the status of golf in Cabo and a new member-for-a-day auction offering private clubs access.
Sidekick facility to the home of the Players Championship, the Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra stacks up against the best. It features water on nearly every hole and value, at approximately $100 less than a round on the Players Stadium Course, that makes it a no-brainer option if you're planning to play more than a couple rounds at TPC Sawgrass, Mike Bailey writes.
Palm Springs is one of 10 municipalities that encompass the golf-rich Coachella Valley. Home to nearly 125 golf courses, this area of California presents no shortage of stellar public plays. Judd Spicer offers up a city-by-city breakdown of the Coachella Valley's golf courses for golfers of all levels.
The Phoenix-Scottsdale corridor is inundated with golf courses that have a degree of difficult off the charts. Every so often, however, there's a course that doesn't bring out the fear factor. Such is the case with Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club in Cave Creek. Now this a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design is no pitch-and-putt course. But it's a course that even hackers can play and enjoy.
The prettier of Primm Valley Golf Club's dual Tom Fazio designs, the Lakes Course proves an engaging round that will test the irons throughout, and it proves a worthy stop for all comers. It's also a bargain. "If you took this course and put it right in Vegas ... they could charge five times as much for the greens fees," one local golfer said.
There are many stay-and-play options in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C region, but none can match the combination of upscale amenities at a reasonable price, the private-course conditions, the diversity of courses and the Interstate convenience of Turf Valley in Ellicott City, Md.
Fresh off a seven-month renovation, the Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass should look shiny and new for its big debut, the Web.com Tour Championship, Sept. 18-21.
Variety, value and views. It's that simple when you're talking about the Palm Valley Course at Golf Summerlin. This Billy Casper/Greg Nash-designed layout is the original Golf Summerlin course, opening in 1989. It's also the longest of the three, and the design -- with a variety of challenges in the length of the holes -- makes tremendous use of the land. If you're looking for a solid round at affordable prices with nice Las Vegas views, you've come to the right place, Bill Bowman writes.
Star power is nothing new to Idaho's Sun Valley Resort. A prestigious getaway for decades, the ski resort upped its golfing profile in 2009 with the addition of the White Clouds course. The tricky, nine-hole layout plays more like a championship venue than a resort golf course. So if you haven't checked on summertime happenings in Sun Valley in recent years, Brandon Tucker writes, it's time to take another look.
With places like SilverRock Resort, Indian Wells Golf Resort and Desert Willow Golf Resort, the Coachella Valley can easily claim to be the municipal golf capital of the world. All three clubs feature courses ranked among the top 50 "munis" in the U.S. by Golfweek, and you can play one former PGA Tour venue for less than $60. That's amazing, as is muni golf in the Coachella Valley. Jason Deegan has more from southern California.
There are more than a dozen golf courses at the Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri, including several from famous designers, but the most underrated course around the lake may be Bear Creek Valley Golf Club. It may not have been designed by a famous name, but it has plenty of game, Kiel Christianson writes.
At a par 68 of barely 6,000 yards, Tom Doak's brand-new golf course at the Midwest's best golf resort packs practically every golfing challenge and delight into a smallish footprint.
Despite its "private" status, anyone can access the 36 holes of golf at Turf Valley in Ellicott City, Maryland with a stay-and-play package. Turf Valley's Hialeah Course is the tougher and more scenic 18. The Original Course is longer but has more room to miss and fewer hazards. Both have true, fast greens and premium conditioning.
Lost Canyon Golf Club in Simi Valley, Calif. is a 36-hole, daily-fee facility located near downtown Los Angeles, off Highway 118. Both courses here, the Sky and the Shadow, were designed by Pete Dye with assistance from Fred Couples, and wind through the Santa Susana mountains. Oleg Volovik shows us more in this photo gallery.
Robert Trent Jones Jr.'s 1980 overhaul of the Trail Creek course at Sun Valley Resort in Idaho transformed the 18-hole layout. He added a new nine, more severe and challenging, to enhance the impact of the creek for which the golf course is named. Check out the beauty of the Jones' handiwork.
Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate, located less than an hour's drive northeast of Cape Town, South Africa, features a pristine Jack Nicklaus golf course of babbling brooks and peaceful ponds surrounded by mountains. The course hosted the South African Opens from 2007-09, and Golf Digest South Africa ranked it seventh among the country's best courses in 2014.
The Ridge course at Predator Ridge Golf Resort is a brand new design in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. Opened in the summer of 2010, the course was designed by Canadian architect Doug Carrick. Compared to the original Predator course at Predator Ridge, the Ridge is a bit less penal, with more forgiving fairways and greens.
The Black Forest Course at Wilderness Valley in Gaylord is set on 400 acres of native Michigan evergreen and hardwood forests and cuts through the land naturally. The Tom Doak design gets golfers on the greens and in the bunkering (there are more than 100 bunkers here, and no two look alike). The greens have that classic look, like they were crafted by hand. The bunkers, meanwhile, are true hazards, so they are to be avoided at almost any cost.
Giving away land for new holes on the Dunluce Links didn't hamper the Valley Links at the Royal Portrush Golf Club. Architect Martin Ebert's changes actually greatly improved the Valley Links, the often-overlooked relief links on the Causeway Coast.
An interesting routing with links characteristics and a great mix of demanding and forgiving, strategic holes is what makes Stevinson Ranch Golf Club such a favorite in California's lush San Joaquin Valley.
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.
Located on slopes overlooking the central Oregon valley, Brasada Canyons at Brasada Ranch is one of the area's true standout golf experiences. Designed by Oregon native Peter Jacobsen with Jim Hardy, it plays up and down the slopes of the mountains. Holes that play up the mountain have desert and mountain backdrops, while holes that head downhill have gorgeous, expansive views of the surrounding valley.
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.
With the new Ridge course opening in 2010, the original course at Predator Ridge Golf Resort is now the Predator. The Les Furber design opened in 1991 and soon became known as the most difficult test in the Okanagan Valley, a half hour north of Kelowna, the main airport of the region. It is host to many of the area's professional events.
The Greg Norman Course at Red Sky Golf Club in Wolcott, Colorado ebbs and flows on the highest piece of property at Red Sky, delivering awe-inspiring views of the surrounding mountains. This nationally ranked layout is private, but available to guests at some of the high-end resorts throughout the Vail Valley.
The 7,056-yard Firecliff Course at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, Calif. lays claim as one of the best tests of golf in the Coachella Valley. The Firecliff Course features more carries and visual intimidation off the tee, more sand and larger waste areas, harsher green sites and longer par 4s than its sister Mountain View Course. Firecliff's designers essentially supersized all the dramatic elements that make scorecard combustion harder to contain.
One of the most affordable and accessible Tom Fazio designs in existence can be found an hour's drive north of Tampa at the World Woods Golf Club in Brooksville. Home to two Fazio designs, the Pine Barrens is a dramatic course set in the mold of Pine Valley and is a mainstay on top 100 public courses lists.
Stewart Creek Golf & Country Club is a new, upscale golf course in Alberta's Canadian Rockies in the mountain town of Canmore and the flagship course of the Three Sisters Mountain Village. Across the valley from another modern mountain golf course, Silvertip Golf Resort, Stewart Creek opened in 2000 and was designed by Gary Browning.
While Phoenix-Scottsdale may be the most expensive peak-season destination in the U.S., there 'are' some great bargains out there. If you're looking to save some cash, give these courses a try.
Co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and son Steve, the Mountain Course at Bear Mountain Resort is the jewel of resort golf on Vancouver Island. The course features great views of Victoria, its Inner Harbour and Olympic Mountains.
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