After much anticipation, I joined a group of artful golfers yesterday to play Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, CA - in an event hosted by The Shivas Irons Society. The event celebrated the Society’s 16th anniversary, with “The Secret to Golf Revealed” by guest speaker, Fred Shoemaker. Having never played Pasatiempo, this historic Alister Mackenzie masterpiece became the 50th golf course added

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My wife and I just returned from a 2-week trip in our small motorhome, traveling to one of our favorite destinations - Colorado. Over the years, we’ve traveled to Colorado several times with our children on summer “hiking” vacations. One vacation was spent in the San Juan Mountains, visiting Ouray, Telluride and Durango. During another trip, we stayed in Glenwood Springs and visited nearby Aspen.

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Bandon Dunes is fast becoming the North American golf mecca. Recently, I had an opportunity to take a Bandon Dunes golf vacation with some good golf buddies. I have already written about my off-the-course experiences. Here are my thoughts and tips o…

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Two weeks ago, I took my dream golf trip to Bandon Dunes with 7 of my golf buddies. Here are my quick thoughts on my off-the-course experience and hopefully they will help you plan a Bandon Dunes golf trip:Air TravelThe fastest way to get to Bandon is…

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Donald Trump’s plan to build a mega golf resort in Aberdeenshire Scotland has been rejected….er, a… Trumped.
A couple of reasons included the worry that Aberdeenshire’s coastline would be compromised by the construction of the course and the housing development which would accompany it. Another political/business conflict was that some of the land was owned [...]

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I’m on vacation for a few days. I’m staying at the amazing Wynn Resort in Las Vegas. I’m poolside, golf blogging. Here’s a shot I took this morning.

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Tiger Woods has completed three holes of his first course design which is in Dubai. More here.
Tiger also has a home on the course. Tiger Woods’ home on this course is a mere 50,000 square feet and will be one of 287 homes on the course ranging from $12 - $23 million. [...]

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When I used to think of New Mexico a few things came to mind. I’d think of nuclear testing and Indian reservations. I’d mostly think of Roswell, where the alien ship crashed in 1947. Golf certainly wasn’t on the radar, alien or domestic.
No longer do I think of aliens when I considering [...]

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This Tuesday in my local golf league (while shooting a 68 I might add), a pal of mine told me some Michael Jordan nuggets. My pal does heating and air and has been working on MJ’s house for a while. MJ has a house up near Glenwild Golf Course in Park City. [...]

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My wife and I traded our timeshare to visit Kauai last week. We stayed in Princeville, on the north side of the island. I brought along my golf clubs, hoping to sneak out a few times while my wife enjoyed shopping or sitting by the pool. I was able to get 4 rounds of golf in!

The Prince Course, Princeville Kauai

The first course I played was 5 minutes from our condo - The Prince Course at

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Woa. My coffee this morning is about 10x as strong as normal! WOOOOOO.
I’ve got a few new golf/media/blog friends as a result of my recent golf blog travels and adventures. I’m going to feature each one of them in posts over the next little while.

Redanman
Redanman is a “golf course rater.” He [...]

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My pal Jay is doing a play by play of the Black Mesa golf writer trip. Each member is a cast member from Gilligan’s Island. I’m Gilligan.
Jay has a true gift for gab, in person and on his blog. Check out his play by play.
I’ve started a review of the course, which [...]

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There are roughly 200 photos in the Hooked On Golf Blog Black Mesa Photo Gallery.

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Black Mesa Day 2
It’s 1:30am. Just got back from a local Pueblo Indian casino. We had some great steaks for dinner and I won $45 playing blackjack. I need to hit the hay for my early flight back home but I had to post this video nugget from today first.
My pal Kevin [...]

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Jay Flemma and I discuss Black Mesa while on the way to our round there:

Jay does a play by play as I make a near impossible chip on #16 at Black Mesa:

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Greetings from Santa Fe, New Mexico. What a GREAT day! I spent the day at the AMAZING Black Mesa golf course. I’ve just finished uploading 119 photos from today’s round. Visit the Hooked On Golf Blog Black Mesa photo gallery to view them. I’ll be playing Black Mesa tomorrow as well, [...]

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This is amazing. I’m sitting here in the Albuquerque airport and I happen to hear a couple raving about a golf course they just played. They have that issue of Golf Magazine I posted about a couple of days ago and it’s opened up to the Black Mesa article!
So I did an impromptu [...]

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I’m beginning to think the writers at Golf Magazine are using my travel itineraries as guides for their upcoming articles. About a week before my trip to Monterey last month, Golf Magazine ran an article on the golf courses and things to do in the Monterey area.
This month, a week before I head to [...]

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Time to do some indoor activities today… No golf. The high today is going to be 41.
Good news though! I’ll be playing golf with my golf blog buddy Jay Flemma and my other pal Eddie Peck soon. We’ll be playing at Eddy’s course Black Mesa next week. Black Mesa [...]

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Ballyneal is a private golf club located a few minutes from Holyoke Colorado. I had the pleasure of playing it before it opened, and wrote a review about it last year. The designer is my favorite, Tom Doak.
While eating some lunch and reading the September issue of Golf Magazine, I stumbled upon their [...]

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I played over at The Architects Golf Club this weekend, and it was a pretty eye-opening experience for me. First of all, it’s a wonderful course. The fairways, tees and greens are all in superb shape and the rough is thick and quite penal (even for those of us with Square Grooves). [...]

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Yes Tiger Woods needs more gigs. He doesn’t make enough dough yet. $130,000,000 a year just isn’ t enough so his new design company, founded in 2006, is starting to roll. The top designers in the world can fetch a million or two for their design gigs. Tiger’s fee is $25 [...]

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So, my last few rounds (prior to this weekend) were pretty darn good. 76 (+5) last Sunday at Spooky Brook, 36 (E) on Monday at Quail Brook, then a 34 (-1) at Green Knoll on Tuesday from the tips. First time I broke par on 9 holes, here I am thinking I’m figuring [...]

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Absolutely perfect weather today, low 80’s, crystal clear skies, low humidity and just a slight breeze. My wife and friend Tim headed over to Spooky Brook golf course for an early afternoon round. I decided to play with an old set of Adams Idea A1 Pro Irons I had down in the basement. [...]

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This seems to be the consensus opinion on the 2007 Masters:“Tiger-proofing” has made Augusta National too difficultAs a result, birdies and eagles were rare, taking the excitement out of the eventBottom Line: It was a borefestI must be in the minor…

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