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Purse Wars In China

It is a good time to be an international golf star, at least for now. Chinese tycoons have been engaging in purse wars, luring big golf stars with millions in prize money and appearance fees to their resorts and tournaments…

Sand Hollow Links Course Review

Having played the original links course earlier this year, The Old Course at St. Andrews, along with about 7 other links courses in the town of St. Andrews, I feel like I know my links golf now. So I feel…

Review and discussion: Puerto Rico’s newly restored Dorado Beach East Course

Dorado Beach East Course Hole #4* – click to enlarge Dorado Beach East Course Overview A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of playing on the first official day play resumed at the recently “restored”…

Category: Golf Courses, Miscellaneous

Old Course Rebuilding Shell Bunker Face

I love to keep in tune with happenings in the Home of Golf, St. Andrews. Today the Old Course began reconstruction of the famous Shell Bunker face. Shell Bunker is a giant bunker which guards the 7th green. [caption id=””…

New Image Gallery – Puerto Rico’s Dorado Beach East Course

I’ve finished uploading my photos from the Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed, and Robert Trent Jones Jr. restored Dorado Beach Resort’s East Course. There are about 70 images of the course, many with my new killer Nikon mega-wide lens. [caption…