I stumbled upon the Bear Creek Golf Complex in Chandler shortly after I moved back to the Phoenix area in the fall of 2011. What I liked about it right away was the practice range and learning center. This is the best place south of the Red Mountain Freeway, and perhaps all of Southern Arizona, …
Starr Pass Golf Club has been on my short list of courses to play in Tucson for several years now. If you’re ever sitting in a window seat when you’re flying in, you can briefly spot the course tucked into the hills of the Tucson Mountains before the plane banks toward its final destination. The club derives its …
The best public course on Tucson’s east side, hands down, is Arizona National Golf Club (the best private facility is Tucson Country Club). Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed the course, and when it was built shortly thereafter by Larry Lippon, an archaeologist-horticulturist was on-hand to help the bulldozers navigate through the Hohokam Indian ruins in …
My brother is currently stationed at Fort Bragg just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina. It’s about 45 minutes away from Southern Pines and a little less than a hour away from Pinehurst. I did some research beforehand, and if you want to play the famed Pinehurst No. 2, it’ll cost you $425 plus another $100 …
The wife and I are in Savannah for a couple of days before we have to drive up to North Carolina for my brother’s graduation. Both of us have been to Charleston just up the way, but neither one of us had ever been to Savannah, so we wanted to check it out. I spent several years in Greenville (SC), and …