Golf Travel

If you're planning a golf vacation in Arizona, I envy you; it's one of my all-time favorite golf destinations. Arizona offers long, hot, dry days, cool clear evenings, and stunning views: mountain ranges and painted deserts. But there's more, much more: Arizona is also home to some of the most luxurious golf resorts and spas in the world. The golf courses also rate high among the best in the world, many of them designed by the greatest names in the business: Dye, Fazio, Nicklaus, to name but three. Thus we have all the ingredients present for a grand golf vacation. So, for all the iformation you'll need, please check out my Golf Travel Guide to the Golf Courses and Resorts in Arizona.

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The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club is one of those resorts in southwest Florida where you can wine and dine yourself and your family, and also enjoy some seriously relaxing times at a world-class spa. All of which, along with its newly renovated golf course, makes the resort a one-stop vacation experience.

The spa is a full service facility offering a full range of spa packages and services, from massages to advanced hydrotherapy, skin treatments to age-defying facials. Read more...

As to the wining and dining, the resort features six restaurants and bars offering a range of fine and casual dining options. Read more...

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The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club's championship golf course has reopened, and it is even better than ever.  Built in 1927, the course is Naples' original golf course. Updated over the years - first by Mark Mahanna in 1948, then by famed golf course architect Ron Garl in 1980, 1993 and 1998. The course was closed from June 6 through September 2, 2011 in order to undergo additional enhancements to those made during the summer of 2010.

Today, the 18-hole, par-72 championship course now boasts new grass on all of the fairways that, along with the enhancements in the summer of 2010 which included new grass on 12 of the greens, and on all 18 tee boxes, and new bridges over some of the course's water features, completes the overall golfing experience. The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club is, in my opinion, one of best golf, or family, destinations on Florida's southwest coast. Please check out my full review of The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club.

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The J.W. Marriott Camelback Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, AZ, has to one of the golf destinations to one the Bucket List. I first visited Camelback in 1984. It was an amazing resort even then. Today, it's even more so. In addition to the grand resort, and I do mean "grand," the two 18-hole championship golf courses offer us a vacation to remember. Geeze, I love that desert golf and, if I could persuade you to give Camelback at try, I would certainly do so; you gotta give it some thought, ok? In the meantime, you'll find all the information about the resort and its golf courses by reading my full review of the Camelback Resort and Spa.

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Play begins today at the TPC Players Tournament. The image above shows a happy Tiger Woods on the 18th green during the practice rounds at TPC Sawgrass in 2011. Sad to say, the happy mood did not last: he didn't make it past the first day of tournament play before being forced drop out through injury. If you've never visited Sawgrass, you've missed quite a spectacle. The Pete Dye TPC Sawgrass stands alone as the best in golf course design. Everyone knows about the fantastic 17th Island Green at the Sawgrass TPC Stadium Course but few have seen the rest of the course, except maybe when watching the TPC Tournament on TV. The course as a whole, though, is incredible. Here's your chance to judge for yourself. TPC Sawgrass Photo Gallery.

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Closed since September 2010, the "new" Glaze Meadow Golf Course will reopen in two phases: the front nine will be ready for play beginning Memorial Day weekend (May 26), while all 18 holes will be available to the public on June 30, 2012. To learn more about what's been happening at Black Butte ranch, please read this review: Glaze Meadow Reopens.

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Ok, so take four amazing golf courses, add more than a thousand luxury condominiums, town houses and a hotel; throw in a lively little village, several restaurants, nightlife, entertainment and shopping, and what do you have? Well... you have Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort on Florida's Northest Gulf Coast, an outstanding golf and vacation destination where you can stay, play, eat and shop without ever leaving the property. Oh, and yes, the weather is great for golf all the year long, well... almost all the year long. Would you like to learn more? Of course you would. So please read this full review of Sandestin Gold and Bexh Resort.

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Ok, so they are just my own personal choices, but these are, in my opinion, the five best golf courses in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Now, I suppose I'd better qualify that: I have not played, or even visited, all 120 plus golf courses and resorts in the greater Myrtle Beach area so there's no doubt that, as visit more and more of them, I'll change my mind; there's also no doubt that many of you will have other ideas. That's ok too. In fact, I like to hear from you. In the meantime, please take a look at the five locations I've listed as the five best golf courses in Myrtle Beach.

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All you need to know about vacationing in Destin and Fort Walton Beach! That's quite a claim right? And so it is. The thing is though, I've spent more time in Destin and Fort Walton than I have in any other part of the world, with the exception of my home town in Tennessee and the little town in England, where I grew up, so I know a little bit about the area. Not only that, I love it down there. Golf aside, Destin and Fort Walton Beach have a lot to offer the vacationing public. Nice hotels and resorts; pristine, white sandy beaches; great food, lots of places to eat; and lots to see and do, including golf, deep sea fishing or just loafing around and working on the tan. If you're planning a vacation to Destin and Fort Walton, here 's the information you'll need to do it.

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The Tryall Club in Montego Bay, Jamaica is an exclusive, luxury villa resort complete with an 18-hole, par 72 golf course. If you're looking for that "once-in-a-lifetime" golfing vacation, you should take a look at the Tryall Club. The golf course was designed by Ralph Plummer who took full of advantage of the lush, tropical ocean-side setting (9 of the 18 holes border the Caribbean sea) to create a stunning layout. The accommodations? They are like no other in the Caribbean and feature from one to eight bedrooms, each with a full staff to serve your every need. Would you like to learn more? If so, please read my full review of The Tryall Club, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

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