Chances are good that you’ve never been to Wales. Sir Terry Matthews hopes to change that. Matthews is the billionaire owner of Celtic Manor, the U.K. golf resort in the Usk Valley that will host the 2010 Ryder Cup and where Matthews estimates ...
All over the Vail Valley, the call to action is unmistakable. Cyclists outnumber cars on side streets. Thousand-dollar bicycles serpentine down steep mountain trails. Vehicles surrender to pedestrians throughout most of the Beaver Creek resort, ...
It was on the eighth tee box at the Harvest Golf Club when I discovered a golf hat holds about a pound of cherries. “We like to play here because it’s ‘all you can eat,’” a local player tells me as we pull off the cart path at Harvest, ...
Bruce and Jay like to color things. They like to paint thick stripes of orange where bunkers should go, rope neon fencing around trees they want to save and stake the edges of a future fairway with fluorescent flags. They like the oily smell ...
Almost any connoisseur of the world’s great golf destinations is captivated by Canada’s East Coast, with its craggy Nova Scotia cliffs and its Muskoka summer cottages. Western Canada’s Rocky Mountains, too, have their ardent fans, those for ...
The North Country of England, which sprawls across rolling green pastures dotted with small cottages and large families, cuts a wide swath through the heart of Britain. Scotland hovers above the region, while Wales grabs at its feet. Thick, lush ...
Golf in Wales is something to be enjoyed, like a sip of whiskey or a pint of local ale. Nearly 200 golf courses interrupt the pastoral roll of the land, each the favorite of its local members. The feel of northwestern Wales is sheep, sea ...