Tag Archives: Steve Pike
Florida Golf Courses To Visit This Winter
By Steve Pike Hammock Beach Resort & Spa Hammock Beach has been a major attraction of the Palm Coast, just south of Jacksonville, since it opened in 2000 with the Nicklaus Ocean Course, a Jack Nicklaus Signature course features six holes right on the Atlantic Ocean. The course was completely renovated by Nicklaus following […]
French Lick Resort To Add 4th Course
By Steve Pike French Lick Resort’s famed Pete Dye and Donald Ross courses and nine-hole Valley Links are about to have company with a fourth course set to open at the resort. The Sand Creek Course at French Lick Resort is located adjacent to the Valley Links course and driving range. It will feature nine […]
Korn Ferry Visits French Lick’s Pete Dye Course For Season-Ending Event
By Steve Pike The Korn Ferry Tour Finals will be held at French Lick Resort in Indiana September 29-October 6. The Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance will be contested on The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort, September 29 to October 6. Korn Ferry’s annual season-ending tournament […]
Walt Disney Slept Here
By Steve Pike, Spike On Golf and Travel As a youngster growing up in suburban Chicago in the early 1900’s, Walt Disney spent winters in the warm rolling hills of Central Florida. Walt ventured to fellow Chicagoan William John Howey’s Florida Hotel in the town he founded named, Howey-in-the-Hills. Disney remembered the wonderful […]
10th Course At Pinehurst Named Sandmines
By Steve Pike Pinehurst Resort’s first original golf course in three decades now has more than just the number “10’’ as its moniker. Reflecting the features and history of the North Carolina sandhills, the Tom Doak-designed course will be named Pinehurst Sandmines. Located on more than 900 acres and just a few minutes from […]
Financial Investment Firm Signs NIL Deal With 15-Year-Old Amateur Golfer
By Steve Pike Transcend Capital Advisors has signed a multi-year Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) partnership with 15-year-old amateur golfer Miles Russell, currently ranked No. 1 in the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Boys rankings. Russell, from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, was the youngest-ever winner of the AJGA’s Rolex Junior Player of the Year […]
Cabot Citrus Farms Set For January Opening
By Steve Pike Anyone who has been to Ben Cowan-Dewar’s properties, Cabot Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, or Cabot Highlands in Scotland, knows firsthand that he demands everything be first-class and beyond. Cabot Citrus Farms will be the most highly anticipated new Florida golf destination in over a decade, when it opens in […]
Callaway’s Big Bertha Is BACK!
By Steve Pike Big Bertha, the model that launched Callaway to success in the early 1990’s has returned in its latest incarnation as an “innovative super game-improvement’’ family. Plus, the Big Bertha REVA is “precisely engineered’’ for women of all skill levels. The company says Big Bertha is designed with an ultra-low center of […]
Aurora Anguilla Beach Resort & Golf Club Adds Short Course
By Steve Pike, The Art of Travel Richard Schulze is proof that even billionaires have bucket lists. For years he wanted to own a golf property and that came to fruition in 2020, when he acquired Aurora Anguilla Beach Resort & Golf Club in the British West Indies. The new Greg Norman-designed Avalon […]