Columnist: Len Ziehm
Tiger Woods Newest Golf Venture
By Len Ziehm Tiger Woods has a new golf venture, he partnered with PopStroke, a company based in Jupiter, Florida. The partnership was, announced in October, 2019 and the first PopStroke facility opened near PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie. After our initial visit, we were impressed. “It’s much more than a souped […]
Golf Travel Notes from Len Ziehm
The Myrtle Beach World Amateur will include 70 flights with $100,000 in prize money, plus it added three new divisions for 2021. The best news is that the World’s Largest 19th Hole is one of the BEST parties in Golf and it is BACK! Every evening the Myrtle Beach Convention Center is open to all of […]
Saddlebrook Resort: More Than Just GREAT Golf
By Len Ziehm For over 40 years, Saddlebrook Resort has been a golfing haven, with two Arnold Palmer-designed golf courses. There’s more to the Saddlebrook story than just great golf, however. Owner Tom Dempsey, who made his mark in the publishing industry in Cleveland, was a member at Palmer’s Bay Hill Club in Orlando, when […]
News About Firestone, LaCosta, Frisco, Myrtle Beach, Streamsong, Pinehurst & Bandon Dunes
By Len Ziehm Despite the problems caused by the pandemic there were three big stories in the world of golf travel in 2020. Two involved well-known destinations, the other a Texas town that is certain to become one. Back in the day, Ohio’s Firestone and California’s LaCosta were among the very best PGA Tour stops. Firestone, […]
Rees Jones Renovates a Family Heirloom — Coral Ridge
By Len Ziehm Robert Trent Jones Sr. was the premier golf course architect of his generation, having designed 450 courses around the world. Both of his sons, Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Rees, became prominent, and prolific, architects, as well. Rees has worked on over 230 courses world-wide, plus he has become known as ‘The Open Doctor.’’ His expertise has been used to prepare seven U.S. Open courses, nine […]
North Carolina’s Outer Banks Are Perfect for Golfers & Families
By Len Ziehm Nag’s Head Links opened for play in 1988 on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. More courses followed with, The Sound Links, The Pointe, Currituck, Carolina Club, Kilmarlic, The Pines and Scotch Hall Preserve all added by 2008. Residents and visitors to the area, which divides the Atlantic Ocean from the Currituck Sound, supported […]
Arthur Hills Golf Trail is UP & Running!
By Len Ziehm Arthur Hills designed more than 200 golf courses and renovated another 150 in his long career as a course architect. Few modern-day architects can match those numbers. Hills, now 90 years old is officially retired and spends most of his time on the east coast of Florida, but his work is […]
Forest Dunes Continues to Expand
By Len Ziehm There was never a doubt that Forest Dunes had one of the very best golf courses in Michigan, if not the entire United States. Tom Weiskopf designed it in 2002 and Golf Digest named it ‘Best New Course’ in the country. No other golf resort can keep up with the expansion Forest Dunes’ owner Lew Thompson, an Arkansas trucking magnate, has engineered over the […]
New Valley Tower & Bar is Open at French Lick Resort
By Len Ziehm Our latest golf travel writing tour took us through several states and ended at one of our favorites stops, the French Lick Resort & Casino in southern Indiana. French Lick was not immune to pandemic restrictions. The hotel and casino were forced to close for a time, but both are now open […]
Don’t Be Afraid to Travel Even Now
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly changed our golf travel plans in 2020. Our journeys in the past 11 years have ranged from a couple days to over a month, with all of them involving travel by car. We found that golf vacations are very much doable in the Carolinas, just as they were when the […]