Aug. 6, 2017: Esmeralda Golf Course, Spokane I'd been warned, see, that Esmeralda Golf Course was all about old people and kids in flip flops and tank tops and foursomes too thickly placed on the course to contemplate anything less than a five-hour round. It's the most popular course in … [Read more...]
Road Holes
There's no golf course like your home course … but the world is big, and the best places in it have the coolest golf courses. Check here for courses out of town, up the road, off the path and down the highway … and the road trips that get you there.
The Inland Nation Tour, Day One: Crossing the Creek
Aug. 5, 2017: The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course, Spokane Sometimes the things you take home from a place don't have anything to do with golf, really, and everything to do with who was there on the journey and the knobs and burls of the land we borrow. And what you find on the way, at … [Read more...]
The Inland Nation Tour
Moving east from the coastal regions of Grey Goatee Nation we eventually encounter Spokane, the capital of an empire, if not a state. We've learned a few things about Spokane as the Roadies prep for a trip there and points east. Spokane does not rhyme with "cocaine"; It's not Seattle, … [Read more...]
A brother at Bally Bandon
Found and experienced: The mysterious Sheep Ranch by Keith Potter The next big thing at Bandon is bound to be a big thing. After all, the courses at Bandon Dunes always deliver, unless the weather is too much like Scotland for some. So the thought of getting an early sniff at The Bally Bandon … [Read more...]
The Queen’s Island Tour: Postscript
The back nine, especially, at Storey Creek Golf Club feels like a walk through the deep woods -- quiet and cool, breathtaking. The course's civilized amenities seem worlds away. In that setting, there is bound to be wildlife, and there was, but the biggest creatures -- deer -- were abundant and … [Read more...]
The Queen’s Island Tour, Day Three: Storey Creek
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. -- It's a latter-day trend at golf courses in northwestern North America. Got trees? Thin 'em out, limb 'em up, cut 'em down. Gearhart Golf Links on the Oregon coast took out 400 shore pines, and it turned the oldest club in the Northwest into a new golf course. Sahalee … [Read more...]
The Queen’s Island Tour, Day Two: Quadra Island
QUATHIASKI COVE, B.C. -- The marketing for the North Island Golf Getaway doesn't necessarily prepare a road tripper for Quadra Island Golf Course, nor do the visuals on arrival at the place. There's no grand clubhouse, no pavement in the parking lot, but hang around a while and the golf course, like … [Read more...]
The Queen’s Island Tour, Day One: Crown Isle
COURTENAY, B.C. -- We came, we played and we stayed, and all in all Crown Isle Golf and Resort Community was a more than OK start to our tour of a big island in the foreign country in our neighborhood. The golf course is well-manicured, snaky, with water around the edges on a half-dozen … [Read more...]
The Queen’s Island Tour
COURTENAY, British Columbia, Canada – That damn independence thing we did back in 1776 has had long-lasting repercussions, I think you’ll agree. Like, we gained a democracy, but we lost a monarchy. Back then, we denounced King George III, and while he might have been a dickhead (tyrannical, … [Read more...]
Augusta West
EUGENE, Ore. -- It's overshadowed in its own state by the courses at Bandon Dunes, in the greater Northwest by Chambers Bay and Sahalee. But Eugene Country Club will take its Top 100 national rankings, make its members happy, and gladly host top-tier championships on the regal but rugged … [Read more...]
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