NICEVILLE, Florida – Every year we’ve made a conscious effort to visit some of the 53 courses on the Florida Historic Golf Trail. This Trail isn’t like many of the others around the country. Its courses are selected for historical purposes, and more states should create such trails. The Florida courses must be open to…
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Our golf team now has a Florida connection — Jason Bruno’s LinksNation
I’m happy to announce the addition of a sixth golf website partnership for www.lenziehmongolf.com. Jason Bruno’s LinksNation.com is our first website partner in Florida. Bruno, from West Palm Beach, founded LinksNation in 2009 and is also a contributor to GolfLife.com as a PGA Tour reporter While LinksNation specializes in course and resort travel features Bruno’s…
`The Elegant Mouse’ should be required reading for golf fanatics
Who is the smallest player to compete successfully on the PGA Tour? My guess is that it was Bob Toski. He stood 5-foot-7 and his fighting weight in his playing days was just 118 pounds. There may have been shorter players, but none lighter. Now 90, Toski’s stature in golf is that of a giant….
PGA Tour’s Florida Swing won’t be the same without Doral, Palmer
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – The Florida Swing of the PGA Tour season, which tees off on Thursday at PGA National, has changed dramatically from a year ago. One tournament, known since 2011 as the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship, left its home of 55 years at Trump National Doral’s Blue Course in Miami and moved…
Our revealing inside look at the best in women’s college golf
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida — We received a great inside look at women’s college golf when we volunteered to host a player participating in the Central District Invitational on the St. Lucie Trail course here. What an eye-opening experience it was! Michigan State University hosted the tournament, and the players on all 14 participating schools…
IT ZIEHMS TO ME: Couples, Daly are off to encouraging starts
BOCA RATON, Florida — You don’t see this very often any more. Fred Couples is healthy for a change, and John Daly is not only belting his tee shots further than last year, his drives are straighter, too. Those two items are what matter most going into the start of Florida’s turn to host the…
Drivers were the most interesting feature at the PGA Merchandise Show
ORLANDO, FL. — Be it clubs, balls, training devices or apparel, the PGA Merchandise Show always has something to intrigue every type of golfer. The 64th staging of this biggest show in golf ended its four-day run on Friday at the Orange County Convention Center with 40,000 industry members from all 50 states and 19…
Chicago Golf Show expands its program
The Chicago Golf Show, presented by French Lick Resort, is expanding the program available to its visitors. A new four-color glossy magazine-style program will be available when the show is staged for the 33rd time from Feb. 24-26 at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. Chicagoland Golf, which publishes monthly during the local season, will…
HERE AND THERE: Arcadia Bluffs is adding another course, too
Arcadia Bluffs and Forest Dunes have battled for the status of Michigan’s best public course for several years, so it should come as no surprise that construction of a second course will begin on Nov. 1 at Arcadia. And there’s no better place to begin another round of our “offseason” travel-related golf reports. Forest Dunes,…
For starters, a new name is needed for the rejuvenated Oak Meadows course
The course reconstruction is done, at least for this fall. Course architect Greg Martin has the new routing for what had been the Oak Meadows golf course in place, the turf is starting to grow in and the Wadsworth Construction equipment is departing the 288-acre property in Addison. In short, the anticipation is growing –…