Imagine playing on a golf course longer than the distance from New York to Atlanta or Land’s End to John O’Groats. A new golf course offers a challenge to all keen golfers, but don’t expect to find fancy fairways and manicured greens. Where do you find this exotic new golf lovers’ destination?
The Nullabor Links is in the Australian Outback and stretches 1365km (850 miles) from Ceduna in South Australia, along the Eyre Highway to Kalgoorlie- Boulder in Western Australia’s Goldfields. Project Manager Alf Caputo was one of many enthusiastic golfers to tackle the course on the opening day.
“It’s been a fabulous journey,” he said. “It’s been a hell of a lot of fun coming across. We started five years ago with a dream and the dream has become a reality. The idea was to attract tourists and golfers who wanted to experience “the real Australia”. There’s some absolutely amazing scenery and before Nullabor Links there was no magnet to bring people out there to have a look at these beautiful things.” (more…)
The best way to unwind after a particularly hard working week is to get together with some friends and head out for a round of golf. The fresh air, the good laughs shared amidst healthy rivalry and the exercise can help a great deal in livening up spirits. How much better can it get? Golf holidays can be the best stress buster for the lovers of the sport. Why play the same greens when there are so many golf courses around the world. Golf tours are the best way by which avid golfers combine a vacation with their favourite sport. As with any vacation, a golf holiday requires as much planning; the duration of stay, budget, and side activities to keep other non-golf playing members of the family entertained- all need to be taken care of.
Golf Holidays- Plan Well
There are many ways to approach the planning aspect of a golf vacation. Begin by first deciding how many people will accompany you on the trip. The trip will depend a great deal on whether it is family accompanying you, or friends with interests other than golf, or just a set of golfers looking to play on new greens. Next, communicate with the resort or club you are planning to go to; the manager can help secure your tee times to your convenience and also take care of the lodging details. For an enjoyable trip, combine your own planning with that of a travel agent or a professional dealing with golf tours.
If your golfing destination requires air travel, you would need to confirm with the airlines about the transportation of the golf equipment. It is quite possible you would have to pay extra for the shipping charges when checking in the clubs. (more…)
If you are a golf enthusiast and you have not visited Gold coast golf courses, then you have certainly missed something. There are several golf courses here. Some of them are discussed below.
Robina Woods: This golf course is a six thousand and seventy eight hundred meter long course. It was designed by the famous designers Graham Marsh and Ross Watson. It was opened for playing in the year 1989. It also features among top 30 Australian courses. This golf course has been carved out of the sixty five acres of native woodlands. The golf course looks absolutely exquisite with gum trees towering all along the fairways. The layout of this golf course is absolutely unique and different from any other golf course anywhere. It is absolutely water proof and is open for playing all the year round.
The Glades: Take a golf trip to this golf course. It is a six thousand four hundred and twenty meter long course built on sixty five acres of land. It was designed by the Golf Champion Greg Norman. It boasts of a superb agronomy that is difficult to get anywhere else. The grass of this course has a tropical bent which has been specially developed by the designer himself. The grass has a superior putting surface all the year round. (more…)
If you plan on taking a golfing trip to Florida, then you should make an attempt to head over to Walt Disney World and play on some of their world-class courses. Palm and Magnolia have hosted PGA tournaments and when you play there you will get a chance to see some of the high-quality shots that the pros have to make when they are playing from the back tees.
Take time to get to the course early and hit the driving range to loosen up before you play, because you are then need your game when you play these two challenging 18 hole golf courses. Make sure you putt on the practice greens, since these are some of the fastest greens in all of Florida, and you will easily drop a few shots if you are not aware of the speed of the greens.
When you arrive at the golf courses, you will be greeted with the world class Walt Disney World type hospitality, the norm is that they will take your clubs and clean them before they put them on the golf carts. The cards have a very nice GPS system on them that makes matching up the distance to the pin very convenient. The time you can expect to play is about 4 1/2 to 5 hours for an 18 hole course. This is about normal or slightly longer than normal which is not hard to believe since the courses are usually very busy, and if you have not played them before they are very attractive but at the same time difficult for the high handicap golfer. (more…)
Scenic national parks and the raw beauty of the desert make Arizona a unique destination for exploration and reflection, while its lively cities rich with shopping and nightlife make the Grand Canyon state an ideal vacation spot for luxury travellers.
Beyond that, family and business-friendly resorts and miles of lush professional golf courses are sure to thrill any sporting enthusiast, while nature lovers can appreciate the grandeur of the natural surroundings. Come to watch the sun sink below the red rock valleys each night, and marvel at the colossal cliffs of exposed earth from the terrace of one of Arizona’s numerous luxury golf hotels.
Where to Stay in Arizona
Fairmont Scottsdale Princess: In true Arizona style, this luxury golf hotel in the heart of Scottsdale is an oasis of decadence on a truly grand scale. Leave everything up to the Fairmont’s top-notch staff, which includes a team of golf concierges to offer suggestions and arrange tee times. Then, unwind after a day on the course in the Willow Stream Spa, which has been ranked among the top hotel spas in North America. This family-friendly establishment also offers a host of amenities for all ages to enjoy, including five swimming pools, a fitness centre, miniature golf and a children’s lagoon. (more…)
Lanzarote is a golfer’s paradise. Imagine sunny days, 70 degrees, a slight breeze, almost every single day. That is the beauty that is Lanzarote. Never heard of it? It’s one of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. People often think that the islands are named after the birds, but in truth it comes from the Latin for dog — Canine. Probably the sailors were trying to describe the seals that used the islands as a mating ground. Those seals, are, alas, extinct.
I like Lanzarote (the eastern most of the island chain) the best because of their commitment to the environment. Those extinct seals are just one of the many examples of the way that man has adversely impacted the island ecosystem. Lanzarote cares about the native flora and fauna and they put their money where their mouth is. (more…)
