Little Ocmulgee State Park is located in south Georgia to the west of Savannah. It has some of the most comprehensive lodging facilities of all the Georgia State Parks with golf courses. The main lodge has 60 guest rooms, while there are also 10 2-bedroom cabins as well as RV sites and campgrounds. Little Ocmulgee State Park has a 265-acre lake…
Coushatta Casino Resort is located in Kinder, Louisiana, close to the golf and gaming destination of Lake Charles near the Louisiana-Texas border. This property, home to the largest casino in the state with live table games and poker, features an 18-hole golf course, Koasati Pines, and three different lodging units. The Grand Hotel is an…
The 405-room Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa dates to 1847 in Point Clear. The resort's Southern charms come from its massive live oaks dripping in Spanish moss and the fresh mint from its gardens that are the main ingredient for the resort's signature mint juleps. The Grand Hotel, a member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail and…
Greg Norman and Sergio Garcia designed TPC San Antonio's AT&T Oaks Course first and foremost for the PGA Tour player. With that said, most golfers cherish the opportunity to play where the pros play, Mike Bailey writes. You might not want to play a course this difficult every day, but that's why the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa also has the more player friendly AT&T Canyons Course, which makes for a nice change of pace.
When you're playing a municipal golf course in a state, city, county or metropark chain of parks, you're almost always guaranteed a round of golf in a natural setting with no homes and little traffic.
Maui Nui Golf Club tops the Power Rankings for the week of Sept. 29. See which other U.S. courses fared well in overall, value and conditions categories as rated by GolfAdvisor reviewers.
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.
Some of the most pleasant golf course experiences in the Tampa area come thanks to mature, mossy oaks shading the fairways. Pebble Creek Golf Club offers not only a preserve-like setting for golf but also a low-key, friendly environment that makes any golfer feel like they're at their home club.
For the second consecutive week, Tranquilo Golf Club in Lake Buena Vista, Florida finished atop Golf Advisor's overall Power Rankings. It also topped the value category.
The Tampa area has several golf-oriented communities and resorts that are perfect for a vacation. Renting a home or condo -- or even adjacent suites with kitchens in a resort -- makes sense, not only because of the comfort factor, but also because it's economical. But which ones make the "A" list? Katharine Dyson breaks it down.
Myrtle Beach golfers are raving about the Waccamaw Golf Trail, which brings together a dozen of the top golf courses at the south end of the Grand Strand. Spanning from Murrells Inlet to Pawleys Island, the Trail boasts "an upscale, Lowcountry vibe." Brandon Tucker offers his list of Waccamaw Golf Trail must-plays.
While it might be a stretch to call Pittsburgh a golf destination, there are few place better than the Steel City to live and play golf. The Steel City's bounty was not lost on Golf Digest, which in 2011 named Pittsburgh the second-best city in the nation for public golf.
There's a little bit of everything and a whole lot of golf at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort. It has lakes, oak trees, creek beds, wildlife and a feeling of tranquility that you don't get at most resorts. And there are 27 challenging holes as well. The courses are always in excellent shape, they're a commune with nature and offer a great test of strategy, Mike Bailey writes from the Alamo City.
There are more than 200 courses available to the public in Nebraska, which is home to fewer than 2 million residents. And most public courses are meant for the wallets of the middle and rural class, making the Husker state one of the better value-golf destinations. Nebraska's lineup isn't as deep compared to Michigan. But you don't need a NetJets membership or Warren Buffett-type connections to access some great golf in Nebraska.
After several incarnations of the old Tennwood Country Club (later Houston Oaks Golf Club, which was open to the public), Houston Oaks has 18 premium holes to compete with the best in the Houston area.
Barefoot Resort & Golf's Fazio Course sits at the heart of the resort, between the Dye and Love Courses. Like many European courses, the Fazio Course doesn't return to the clubhouse after nine holes, however it is no British linksland layout. This course is thoroughly Carolina Lowcountry, with lush native grasses and forests of live oaks and pines.
Many of legendary course architect Alister MacKenzie's finest designs, like Augusta National and Cypress Point, are private. Here are seven you can play.
With water on 10 holes, tree-lined fairways and plenty of doglegs, the Arthur Hills Course is the most challenging of the three layouts at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort in Hilton Head Island, S.C.
It's called the International Club of Myrtle Beach because each hole features a tribute to a different country. In addition, the massive clubhouse has a definite European feel to it. The golf course, though, is really all South Carolina Lowcountry.
It's easy to forget that Pound Ridge Golf Club is less than 50 miles from New York City. The most remote holes near the Connecticut state line sneak through the woods in scenic solitude. They're gorgeous and ferocious.
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