Posts in Tag: Golf
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Portstewart Golf Club – A Must Play Course in Northern Ireland
Today is day four of the Irish golf trip I have undertaken with seven other friends and we are headed for Portstewart Golf Club which our driver Barry McGuigan assures us will be a real challenge. If the course is as nice as the drive is then we are in for a treat. It is a beautiful morning […]
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Castlerock Golf Club – Welcome to Golf in Northern Ireland
It’s a cool rainy morning in Dublin and the weather forecast is not good. There is a vortex of rainy weather swirling around the Irish Sea drenching pretty well all of Northern Ireland, where we are headed in less than hour. Our destination is Castlerock Golf Club and according to the route I’ve downloaded it’s […]
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Portmarnock Golf Club – A Tough Test of Irish Golf Outside of Dublin
Today is day two of the eight day Irish golf tour. Yesterday four of us played Royal Dublin and were suitably impressed. Today all eight of the group will take on Dublin’s other legendary course, Portmarnock Golf Club and we will use caddies for this adventure. Unfortunately the weather is not as cooperative as yesterday and […]
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Grotto Bay Beach Resort – Welcome to Bermuda’s East End
Alison and I have spent the first four days in Bermuda on the western end of the island at the wonderful Fairmont Southampton. We’ve enjoyed golf at the Fairmont’s Turtle Hill Golf Course and the absolutely gorgeous Port Royal Golf Course. We’ve toured the Royal Naval Dockyard and capital city of Hamilton and walked the […]
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Port Royal Golf Course – Why It’s So Difficult and So Beautiful
Yesterday after playing Turtle Hill Golf Course we hit the beach at Horseshoe Bay and then headed for Bermuda’s capitol, Hamilton. It’s another glorious morning in Bermuda and on our last day on the south coast we are set to golf at one of Bermuda’s top courses, Port Royal Golf Club which only two months before […]
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Horseshoe Bay Beach and a Quick Visit to Hamilton, Bermuda
Day three of the Bermuda trip dawns portentously with this beautiful sunrise as seen from our balcony at the Fairmont Southampton. The excitement of last night is forgotten, although there is still a manhunt underway for two suspects who shot and killed Bermuda gangster Prince Edness outside the Waterlot Inn. Yesterday our touring got off […]
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Whistling Straits – Why This is Pete Dye’s Masterpiece
Whistling Straits first came onto my radar screen in 2004 when V.J.Singh won the P.G.A. there in a playoff over Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco. To be clear, Whistling Straits is actually the home of two courses, the Straits of which I am writing today and the Irish course, but for all intents and purposes […]
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Blackwolf Run – You Must Play These Two Pete Dye Masterpieces
The American Club Resort in Kohler, Wisconsin has four Pete Dye designed courses that are all in the top 60 of U.S. courses that anyone can play. Well anyone with enough money. The courses are located in two distinct areas. The Whistling Straits and Irish courses are right on Lake Michigan twenty minutes from the […]
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Lambeau Field – Why Everyone Should See a Game in Green Bay
It’s day two of my visit to Wisconsin to play the four Pete Dye courses at the American Club Resort in Kohler. More important than today’s golf is a Thursday night visit to Lambeau Field to watch the Packers take on my beloved Vikings. It’s an iconic rivalry at an iconic football stadium. Please join […]