Experience the City Different Colorado AvidGolfer Santa Fe, New Mexico Known as the City Different, New Mexico’s capital regularly rates among the top travel destinations in the United States. Its delightful stew of Hispanic, Anglo and Native American cultures expresses itself architecturally, gastronomically, artistically and commercially. A kind of adobe theme park for adults, Santa … Read more
Why we are lucky share a border with New Mexico Colorado AvidGolfer Albuquerque, New Mexico Made famous as the setting for television’s Breaking Bad, New Mexico’s largest city revolves around much more than visiting the real-life location of the fictional Los Pollos Hermanos—or sipping a real-life Breaking Blue cocktail at O’Niell’s Irish Pub or inhaling … Read more
PGA Tour heads to Texas this week Chris Duthie | Photos © By Chris Duthie Coloradoans love to tease our Texan neighbors. It’s probably because Lone Star folk take so much pleasure in bending ears about piddling stuff: father-son presidencies, NBA world championships, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Willie Nelson. Irritating contrivances if you ask me. … Read more
Six Ways to Beat Arizona’s Coming Summer Heat Now Chris Duthie | Photos © By Chris Duthie With the LPGA Tour returning this week to Phoenix for the JTBC Founders Cup at Wildfire Golf Club, we’re reminded there’s still time—albeit a short, tentative window—to beat Arizona’s approaching summer heat and head south for a blissful … Read more
Travel Smarter: Check your on-course essentials Chris Duthie The golf gods are an unscrupulous bunch, omnipotent deities that can elevate your game to heavenly heights or send your swing so far south that it comes back speaking Emperor Penguin. And if you think those jokers limit their shenanigans to the links, brace yourself: They love … Read more
Five Reasons to Make Mexico Your Next Golf Vacation Chris Duthie | Photos © By Chris Duthie Don’t fall prey to a false spring. The occasional temperate day may tease us into thinking golf season is just around the corner. But it’s still winter, and the dependably warm weather won’t arrive for at least another … Read more
Turnberry Isle deserves a spot on your bucket list Chris Duthie | Photos © By Chris Duthie This week the PGA Tour starts its East Coast Swing in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. While playing PGA National Golf Club is undoubtedly enticing, there’s another golfer’s guilty pleasure just 65 miles south in Aventura. Enriched with just … Read more
6 Sonoran Desert courses that will blow you away Chris Duthie | Photos © By Chris Duthie Golf may have originated by the sea, yet few will dispute the game’s inherent splendor went up several notches when it ventured inland to Arizona’s Tucson Basin. With this week’s Accenture Match Play Championship coming to Ritz-Carlton Golf … Read more
The Robert Trent Jones Trail has 468 of them, but the southern part of this blossoming golf destination is about much more Tony Dear It might be considered heresy in a state that has become synonymous with Robert Trent Jones to say that the tiniest part of me wishes that for the rest of my … Read more
Courses to play, places to stay, where to eat during Spring Training in Arizona Colorado AvidGolfer Thanks to the second-worst road record in the National League last year, your Colorado Rockies pulled up the rear in the division. With Todd Helton now lacing line drives on golf courses and Dexter Fowler, Jonathan Herrera and half … Read more
