Posts in Tag: Golf
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North Cape Coastal Drive PEI
In late February, 2020 Alison and I returned from a trip to Central America just as the entire world was about to change in ways that were unimaginable at the beginning of the year. As travel writers our plans for a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti in April and May died in the […]
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Mill River Golf Course – Hole by Hole
This is my first post on travel in the time of a pandemic. Alison and I last travelled in late February when we ended our trip through Central America at Ambergris Caye in Belize. The next day we flew back to Canada and within a week the entire world changed as first international and then […]
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K Club – Incredible Golf, Incredible Luxury
This is my final post from last September’s golf trip to Ireland. We started off playing the out of this world Old Head of Kinsale in absolutely perfect conditions and we will be finishing at Ireland’s most luxurious golf resort, the legendary K Club in Kildare, not far from Dublin. During our stay we will […]
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Doonbeg – Playing Trump’s Irish Fantasy
This is my fifth review of golf courses in southwest Ireland based on a trip there in September 2019 with Barry McGuigan’s former company Golf NI. We started out with the fabulous Old Head of Kinsale followed by Arnold Palmer’s magnificent course at Tralee. Unfortunately at our third course, Waterville the weather was so bad […]
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Lahinch – Playing the World’s Craziest Par Three
This is my fourth post from last fall’s amazing golf trip to southwest Ireland with Golf Travel NI which unfortunately doesn’t exist as of right now. We did three trips with them and enjoyed them all immensely. Hopefully owner Barry McGuigan will have his new venture up and running for our next trip. We have […]
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Ballybunion – Why Tom Watson Loves It
This the third post from last fall’s amazing golf trip to southwest Ireland with Barry McGuigan’s Golf Travel NI. The first post featured the one and only Old Head of Kinsale and the second, Arnold Palmer’s Irish masterpiece, Tralee. In between we played Waterville, but the weather was so nasty that I couldn’t get a […]
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Old Head – Hole by Hole in Golfing Heaven
What happens when you combine one of the most beautiful pieces of property in all Ireland steeped in over 3,000 years of history with eighteen holes of golf? You get what, for the avid golfer, is nothing short of heaven on earth. There are not enough superlatives to describe the Old Head Golf Links located […]
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Old Quarry G. C. – A Pete Dye Masterwork
I’ve been playing golf longer than I care to remember and at courses around the world I do care to remember. Among golf architects, Pete Dye has always been my favourite, although I know others who abhor his signature railroad ties and the difficulty of some of his courses. My personal favourites about which you […]
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Apes Hill Golf Club Hole by Hole
Barbados in not generally considered a golf destination in and of itself. Most people come here for the sun, sand, sea and the incredible Bajan culture and the legendary welcoming attitude. On this website you’ll find thirteen different posts on various must do and see things in Barbados including this one on how to get […]