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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.

Golf trip by RV? It pencils, if you can stand the idea

February 10, 2012 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The Seattle Golf and Travel Show in February was directly adjacent to the Seattle RV Show, a happy confluence of scheduling given the golf show's increased emphasis on golf travel destinations. Before we even get out the calculator to see if an RV makes sense for your golf road trip, there are … [Read more...]

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Gold Mountain Olympic: Just your everyday championship golf course

June 24, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

BREMERTON, Wash. – The roughs are long and sticky and will only get longer. The greens are fast, and might get faster. And while members and visiting players battle through – and maybe curse – the challenging setup at Gold Mountain’s Olympic Course, it’s all in the game plan as Gold Mountain … [Read more...]

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A guy could get used to the Bandon culture

April 19, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

by Bart Potter BANDON, Ore.– There is a culture at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, pervasive and authentic, and it’s part of the deal when you stay in its lodging and play on its golf courses. A guy could get used to it. It’s no secret you’ll spend some money at Bandon Dunes, but when it’s … [Read more...]

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The sights, sands and scents of a golf trip to Portugal

April 7, 2011 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

by Steve Valandra As I pondered a shot from the elevated sixth tee at the Penha Longa Golf Resort just outside Lisbon, thoughts of the great Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan slipped into my mind. No matter where in Portugal, even in the dusty villas tucked away in the north where … [Read more...]

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Salish Cliffs: Newest Gene Bates design takes shape

July 14, 2010 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Washington’s newest golf course is moving forward, a half hour from Olympia, and if it seems sluggish in its progress it’s more from the weather than the soggy economy. “We lost six weeks to rain,” said Gene Bates, designer of Salish Cliffs, taking shape at the Little Creek Casino Resort property … [Read more...]

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At Sahalee, it’s about the trees

June 26, 2010 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

You can’t go over them, and you can’t get through them. You will be in them, but it wouldn’t be Sahalee Country Club without them. It’s the trees – mature, lush, resplendent. They’ll be in evidence and almost certainly in play when the U.S. Senior Open comes to Sahalee July 26 – Aug. 1. The … [Read more...]

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When the fairway’s in the fairgrounds, you might be playing Pasture Golf

August 22, 2009 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

DAYTON, Wash. – Touchet Valley Golf Course has decent length, tricky-quick greens, crispy sand in the bunkers and a character that sticks in your brain well after your round is done. It’s not just a golf course. It’s a movement. Whether they know it around here or not. It’s Pasture Golf, which … [Read more...]

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Palouse Ridge: The science behind the golf is the grass beneath your feet

October 20, 2008 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Palouse Ridge Golf Course in Pullman, Wash., flows seamlessly up and down and around and about the contours of the topographic region that gives the course its first name. It’s safe to say it’s the only golf course in the U.S. – the world? – that sits beside a nuclear reactor and a grizzly bear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Road Holes, The Craft, The Green GameTagged With: Charles Golob, JOhn Harbottle, Palouse Ridge, Todd Lupkes

A walk on Chambers Bay with the superintendent

June 20, 2008 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — David Wienecke is playing golf on the fescue grasses and dunes of Chambers Bay, the course for which he is superintendent. He’s playing, but there’s a lot more going on. It’s part pride, part a professional’s critical sense of things. There’s a paternal fussiness, … [Read more...]

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