The Arnold Palmer that started Alabama Gulf Shores golf, Craft Farms still shows its love for golfers
Arnold Palmer single-handedly made the Alabama Gulf Shores a golf destination by designing two excellent courses at Craft Farms. You don't go on a golf vacation for a history lesson, though. Craft Farms succeeds today because it recognizes its history while concerning itself with the product golfers are experiencing now. It's a well-run operation that's never lost its passion for golf and the people who play the game for fun.
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Alabama Golf Course Reviews
Arnold Palmer single-handedly made the Alabama Gulf Shores a golf destination by designing two excellent courses at Craft Farms. You don't go on a golf vacation for a history lesson, though. Craft Farms succeeds today because it recognizes its history while concerning itself with the product golfers are experiencing now. It's a well-run operation that's never lost its passion for golf and the people who play the game for fun.
... full article »Banking on golf fun: Rock Creek G.C. an Alabama Gulf Shores blast
If you play golf to enjoy yourself, you'll want to work Rock Creek Golf Club into an Alabama Gulf Shores trip. You make golf trips to have the kind of days you have at Rock Creek. This is the type of course that leaves a golf group with plenty of stories to tell - probably for years to come, Chris Baldwin writes.
... full article »Kiva Dunes Golf Course is a seaside course you'll never forget in Gulf Shores, Alabama
Kiva Dunes Golf Course is the type of course you travel to play, the kind of showpiece that is a great impetus to come to the Alabama Gulf Shores and discover the other outstanding golf courses and 32 miles of beaches with white sand that looks like its special ordered from a postcard.
... full article »Lakewood Golf Club In Point Clear, Ala.: Tee off among the Civil War ghosts
The two courses at the Lakewood Golf Club sit right across the street, and are part of, the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Ala. A little cemetery lays near the 18th tee box on the Azalea course. In it, lay the remains of 300 Confederate soldiers wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg. It puts that drive you shanked on No. 18 into perspective.
... full article »TimberCreek Golf Club in Mobile, Ala.: a course to soothe your nightmares
TimberCreek Golf Club outside of Mobile is one of those Alabama golf courses where the wind always seems to be at your back and all your tee shots are downhill. That isn't to say it's a ridiculously easy course, but it is a good antidote in the Mobile area after you've played Magnolia Grove's tough layouts, for example.
... full article »Go mano a mano with Robert Trent Jones at Magnolia Grove in Mobile
If you find yourself struggling to make par at either of the two golf courses at Magnolia Grove, take comfort in that you're playing the golf course the way its inventor intended. "Robert Trent Jones' philosophy was hard par, easy bogey," Magnolia Grove Director of Golf Paul Martino said. Magnolia Grove, part of the much-publicized Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, is a good example of that stern outlook.
... full article »Elevate your game (and lower your score) at Alabama's hilly Rock Creek
You don't expect mountains this close to New Orleans, or to the beach, or to the bay. Well, not mountains, exactly. But these here hills in lower Alabama make for a nice surprise at Rock Creek Golf Club near Mobile.
... full article »In bloom: Mobile's Azalea City a terrific parkland muni
The golf course does its namesake town proud. The conditioning here rivals that of a resort, country club or even upscale semi-private course. The fairways are luscious and green, even after a warm winter; the greens are in impeccable shape. Even the tee boxes look good.
... full article »Coach T's favorite golf course requires your 'A game' at Auburn Links
Auburn Links is Auburn Tigers' coach Tommy Tuberville's favorite golf course in an Auburn-Opelika metro area deemed the best in the country by "Golf Digest" and it's easy to see why the coach is so enamored of the course. With an easy-going attitude and a course that won't destroy your psyche, Auburn Links will present golfers with a few choice challenges, but nothing to ruin a great day on a well-maintained golf course.
... full article »Mis-named Links golf course at Grand National can be a hellcat
Aside from the fact that front nine doesn't come back to the clubhouse at the Links Course at Grand National in Opelika, Ala., it really isn't a true links course in any sense of the word. That doesn't mean that this Robert Trent Jones' creation should be skipped over, however. With the Links Course, Jones has designed another gem, and it's one that's an affordable, fun play. Just try and stay out of the rough.
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Mississippi Golf Course Reviews
The Bridges Golf Club: Palmer's Mississippi marshland mauler is worthy of a King
The Bridges Golf Club delivers plenty of fun to go with that sure ball battering. This is one of the most entertaining golf courses you'll find anywhere, and it fits right into a Mississippi Gulf Coast region that really lets its courses play out over nature.
... full article »Shell Landing Golf Club shows that Davis Love III is a can't-miss Mississippi course designer
At Shell Landing Golf Club, Davis Love III gives recreational golfers wide, wide fairways, the better to keep those drives in play and the frustration level down. But that only makes Shell Landing's 7,024 yards look even more massive. There's so much room, it can be a little intimidating.
... full article »Relax in nature at Jack Nicklaus' Grand Bear Golf Course in Mississippi
Grand Bear in Saucier, Miss., is the rare golf course that could be both a great starter or a great finisher for a golf trip. Play Grand Bear as your first course on a Mississippi Gulf Coast trip, and you'll receive a thorough introduction to the reasonably-priced nature wows of this region - without getting too beat up. On the other hand, you could also play Grand Bear as the climax of the trip and nobody would walk off feeling shortchanged.
... full article »Sunkist Country Club owners get lemons, make lemonade in Gulfport, Miss.
Sometimes natural disasters bring unnatural luck. Much of the Mississippi coast was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and the area's golf courses obviously suffered. But one of them, Sunkist Country Club, actually prospered.
... full article »Grand Bear golf course still one of Biloxi's star attractions for golfers
Grand Bear is one of Biloxi's star attractions. It may not have the novelty of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's two, glitzy new openings, Fallen Oak and The Preserve, or the history of Great Southern. But this will always be a favorite of those who travel and play golf regularly in Biloxi.
... full article »The Oaks Golf Club: New super has new greens in super shape
There are those who claim that many of the Biloxi-area courses are in better shape than before Hurricane Katrina hit, and the The Oaks Golf Club in Pass Christian can definitely make that claim.
... full article »Shell Landing: Take it slow and enjoy one of the top golf courses in the Biloxi area
It's hard to dislike a golf course that sports a sign saying: "Slow — gopher tortoise refuge." How can you go slower than a gopher tortoise? What's their top speed — faster than a glacier but slower than a three-toed sloth? They don't make carts that slow. Even without the sign, Shell Landing is an easy course to like, even love. The Davis Love III design one of the top-tier courses in the Biloxi area.
... full article »Golfers at Windance Country Club in Gulfport, Miss. can see Katrina's aftermath
Opened in 1986, the semi-private Windance Country Club is a Mark McCumber design that has some length and enough bite to it to keep it interesting. Windance is 6,660 yards from the back tees, with a slope rating of 129. What gives the course most of its bite is its tight, tree-lined fairways, and water hazards that come into play if you and your driver aren't on speaking terms.
... full article »Superb Fallen Oak course elevates golf in Biloxi
Fallen Oak is the newest golf course in the Biloxi area, and it's a humdinger — a spectacular course by a "A-list" architect, Tom Fazio. It's financed by MGM Mirage and only guests of the Beau Rivage Casino are invited to share the glory. No photos are allowed. They're a little anal about this sort of thing, but they have the course to back it up.
... full article »Mississippi National Golf Club: A Gautier course holding true to Earl Stone's legacy
Those playing the course for the first time would probably never know it was battered by a historic storm, unless they were shown photos of pre-Katrina. Mississippi National remains one of the better courses in this part of the state. It opened in 1965 from a design by Earl Stone and the course has pretty much kept Stone's original blueprints in place, notwithstanding Katrina, as well as previous hurricanes like Camille and George.
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