James C asked: If you are a golfer and live in or plan to visit Aurora Colorado you are in luck. The city is home to a number of different golf courses to challenge you. Keep reading and learn about a couple of the courses you might want to check out.One golf course that is [...]
Stephen R Burns asked: Unfortunately, when building new golf courses, sometimes the egos of golf course developers and golf course architects get in the way of sound business practices and common sense. In their quest to build the next “Top 100,” or “Best New” course, developers often end up spending way too much money to [...]
What is Golf Course Rating?
The quick answer is that it’s a single number indicating the difficulty of a golf course to an expert golfer, a “par golfer”. The figure is used when calculating handicaps.
The Course Rating is a number, close to par for the course, and is expressed with a single decimal digit. For example: [...]
Is it really important to buy golf shoes in order to actually play golf? As you’re might know shoes is able representing every sport imaginable. There are very few sports that do not have a special shoe that is intended to improve the way you play while wearing them. Yet many people cannot afford to [...]
Taking Your Golf Clubs On The Road
People that don’t know the game of golf well may not always understand that there is more to the game than just driving a tiny ball to a tiny hole far away.
One of the great things about the game is just being outside enjoying nature on great golf courses [...]
We all have tick-lists… Restaurants we have to eat at, hotels we have to stay in, things we have to do. For golfers, it’s the tick-list of “Courses I have to play before I die (and preferably whilst I can still get round a golf course under 100)”. I’ve been lucky enough to play golf [...]
Ballybunion Golf Course
Every time I’ve played here, it’s blown a hoolie but it’s the west coast of Ireland so what can I expect? The golf courses’ architecture (both new and old) provides wonderful tests of golf with every shot in the bad needed. Massive dunes, treacherous greens and wind coming from every direction.
You know you’ve [...]