The Country Club Of Rochester – Walter Hagen’s ‘Home’ Club.
About a decent par four away from this week’s PGA Championship host venue at Oak Hill is another famed golf course – The Country Club of Rochester.
Having driven past the golf course since our arrival here on Monday we decided to visit the club on the eve to the commencement of the 95th PGA Championship.
Among the few people we met was Michael Morse and his wife, Margie.
Michael was hard not to miss as he was carrying under his arm a handful of hickory shaft clubs.
The club was founded ...
Isle of Skye Golf Club – The Challenge Not Being Distracted By The Setting.
While the world’s best golfers will be fighting fiercely to manoeuvre themselves into position to capture the Open Championship, a championship of different sorts will take place on Saturday, July 20th, 2013.
Those golfers not at Muirfield will be making their way to the picture postcard island of Skye for the annual – Isle of Skye Open.
The Isle of Skyle Golf Club is one of just two golf courses on Skye and what wonderful nine-hole experience.
The club with next year celebrate its 50-year anniversary ...
Tarpon Springs Golf Club, Florida
Tarpon Springs is an 18-hole golf course located in Tarpon Springs along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline on the west portion of Florida.
It was another of the courses we inspected during the Tampa Bay Championship.
The original nine holes of the golf course was designed in 1906 and with the second nine finished in the late 1920’s.
The course plays to a par 72 and measures 6,243 yards from the back tees with many doglegs that make it play longer than the actual length.
Tarpon Springs boasts four par ...
Wentworth Golf Club – Not The Course In Leafy Surrey.
With a few spare hours on my hands during last Saturday’s third round of the Tampa Bay Championship I took a short drive to inspect Wentworth Golf Club.
Having been to the Wentworth Club in England so many times, I was curious how this Florida course stacked up against it’s prestigious namesake across ‘The Pond’.
The course is located north of the Tampa Bay tournament venue at Tarpon Springs in Pinellas County.
Wentworth was designed by renowned designer, Steve Symers and ...
Crail Golfing Society – Snow Bound One Day. A Picture Postcard The Next.
Crail Golfing Society is golf’s seventh oldest golf club having been founded in 1786.
However there was no golf last week when snow blanketed much of Scotland including the famed Old Course in nearby St. Andrews (see earlier story).
However a day later there was no trace of the snow and with golf course bathed in sunshine as you can see from the second photographs hereunder.
Golden Anniversary Breaks Beckon at Monte da Quinta.
Portugal’s Algarve is still a firm favourite amongst UK golfers seeking a sunshine break and the luxurious Monte da Quinta resort is offering a range of attractive new golf packages to help one of the region’s most prestigious venues celebrate a landmark anniversary.
Monte da Quinta has teamed up with the nearby Vale de Lobo resort and unveiled a series of three and seven-day golf holidays, with a three-night break including three rounds of golf and many other attractive benefits from just £408 ...
Donegal Golf Club – A Youthful Links Gem With An Ageless Appearance.
UPDATED .. January, 2025
In golfing years, the Donegal Golf Club at Murvagh on the north-west coast of Ireland is a relative new kid on the block.
Indeed the Donegal Golf Club that is overlooked by the Bluestack Mountains to the north and shaped by the might of the Atlantic Ocean to the west is a golf course that was designed in the ‘70s, the 1970s.
Though what Donegal Golf Club may lack in experience, the golf course boasts an ageless, classic links challenge making it one of those must play Irish ...
