Prince’s Golf Club – a rich history, a wonderful future
There can be few places to rival Prince’s Golf Club as a place to watch the sun rise on a day like this. We’re sitting by the putting green at The Lodge at Prince’s, waiting. In the dawn mist, Sandwich Bay itself is so still it’s as if someone has placed a piece of dark glass on the water. Soon the sun starts to appear on the horizon and the light begins to creep across the 27-holes away to our left, illuminating the white of the sand scrapes, dancing across the texture of the sleeper paths and catching the long…
Hillside Golf Club: a joyous assault on the senses
It’s early on a glorious July morning as I turn left through the gates of Hillside Golf Club. The place is abuzz with people. The team from the DP World Tour are on site constructing grandstands, measuring for yardage books, and preparing for a tour event which arrives here in the next few days. The car park is already filling up and the temperature is rising. I’m running late and have been for the past 90 minutes, scampering through the traffic in a vain attempt to make up lost time but it isn’t to be – I park up a…
Las Vegas Golf Courses: The Best Golf Clubs In Vegas?
There is no shortage of life to live on any trip to the entertainment capital of the world but what about those Las Vegas golf courses? Where do you begin? Many people travel to Vegas for the casinos and the restaurants, some come for the shows and the concerts, while others are here to explore the sights, to take a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon or to see the Hoover Dam. But Las Vegas is also a golf destination and an incredible one at that. But where to start Well, in the city alone, there are 39 Las Vegas…
Islay And Jura: Adventure To ‘Unique’ Machrie And Ardfin
The Machrie and Ardfin, two of Scotland’s great island golf experiences, have joined forces to offer travellers a unique opportunity to experience a luxury wilderness golf adventure like no other. The partnership will offer golfers the chance to combine two world-class courses over three nights on Islay and neighbouring Jura, two of Scotland’s most dramatic and historic Hebridean islands. The Machrie Hotel is a place we know well and the combination of the natural wonder, rugged beauty of the landscape and immaculate world-class links golf is truly intoxicating. It is a place to both lose yourself and find the time…