After an early breakfast at Piersland we headed off on a short taxi ride to Prestwick Golf Course just down the road in the village of Prestwick. Historic Prestwick dates…
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Talamore, 1991, Rees Jones
Tobacco Road, 1998, Mike Strantz
Bayonet at Puppy Creek, 1995, Willard Byrd
Pine Needles, 1927, Donald Ross
Scotland at last! After a red-eye flight from Arkansas, through O’Hare to Edinburgh for Kevin and a similar overnighter for Bill, Don & Dick via Detroit & Amsterdam to Glasgow…
This thing might finally happen! In March of 2019, planning started for this golfing holiday. The original dates of play were to be the 2nd half of August, 2020. Cancelled…
Friday – final day. The morning skies were clear and we were able to get a better look at the Bluffs course and Lake Michigan. A gorgeous setting for sure. …
Thursday AM we headed west from Roscommon to Arcadia on the Lake Michigan coast and the Arcadia Bluffs resort. Our lodging was in one of the resort’s 4-bedroom cottages with…
Our last day of golf at the Forest Dunes resort. We played at the resort’s original course – cleverly named ‘Forest Dunes’. Built in 2002 by Tom Weiskopf, the…
Day 3 – Today it’s the ‘Red’ Loop routing so we played the course counter-clockwise. Hats on backwards! Our starter yesterday on the Black tried to end some of the…
In the morning, we played the ‘Black’ routing of ‘The Loop’ – Tom Doak’s ‘reversable’ course. It’s a fascinating concept. There are eighteen greens, eighteen flags. The counterclockwise course (the ‘Red’ routing)…
After a long drive from Pittsburgh (and a flight/overnighter for Kevin coming in from Arkansas) we met at Fred’s in Roscommon for brewskis, lunch, and what passed for an opening…
This year’s Spring trip takes us to the Wolverine state. Four rounds are scheduled on 18-hole championship courses – three at the Forest Dunes complex in Roscommon and…
