I’ve been covered up to my neck in a giant tub of fermenting wood chip-like things in a Japanese-style Osmosis in California’s Sonoma Valley — where else? I’ve been scrubbed by a gritty grape seed concoction at CordeValle, slathered in hot mud in Budapest...
Editor's Note: Below is Fairways + Greens contributor Katharine Dyson's award-winning profile of renowned, Canadian-born golf course architect Geoffrey Cornish, who died Feb. 10 at age 97 in Amherst, Mass. This interview was conducted in 2010. Fiddlers Green...
Don’t worry, we’ll be gentle. Unless you request a bit more pressure. After all, that’s the beautiful thing about spa menus in the age of the metrosexual — there’s definitely something for everyone. And that means men as well as women. From facial treatments...
At precisely 12:43 p.m., a hand-rung bell sounds signaling thoroughbreds will break out of their gates for the first race in just 17 minutes. Patrons move to the fences to watch horses led from the stables to the paddock, jockeys with bright colorful silks...
You’ve just crossed the Bourne Bridge when it hits you. Off with the tie; off with the Johnston & Murphys, on with the sandals. You’re on Cape Cod off the southeast coast of Massachusetts, the land of lobster, clams, salty sea air, sunsets, endless beaches...
A group of guys, their golf clubs leaning against the wall, were waiting with me for the golf shuttle in the soaring open-air lobby of the Marquis Los Cabos, Mexico. "Been here before?" I asked. “Nope. Just got in yesterday. We usually go to Myrtle, but...
By now everyone in the golf universe knows the story. PGA Championship. Whistling Straits. Leader Dustin Johnson pushes his tee shot into a tiny plot of trampled waste area on the 72nd hole, far above the fairway. It’s well into the gallery and people are...
The other half of the Dye twosome has a strong say on golf course design. Alice insists on accommodating women and other forward tee players, but admits the Dye courses can be hard on them, especially some of the newer ones. “Everyone who builds a course...
Pairing up a great golf course with a great regional wine plays into two acute and equally delicious passions. Whether you’re teeing up at courses located in exceptional wine-producing regions from California’s Sonoma or Napa valleys, Canada’s Okanagan...
In that seasonal sweet spot between snowmelt and snow’s return, golfers dust off their sticks and gear up for some heady thrills in the hills, where they are often teeing it up in the shadows of ski lifts. Today just about every major ski area in the region...
No matter what Mark Twain said about golf being a “good walk spoiled,” you’ve got to think had this gentleman teed up in the Finger Lakes near his home in Elmira, he would have appreciated the delicate splendor of feathery fescue of the roughs brushing his...
Last year, Bethpage Black on Long Island hosted the U.S. Open. Bethpage, designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1936, is a public course, and one of five superb 18-hole tracks in Bethpage State Park. It is also just one of the state’s 29 golf courses located in...
It’s been rumored that Scottsdale is a pricy place to stay and play. It can be. But we’ve found a way for you to tee up in this golf Mecca without having to take up a collection around the water cooler. In Scottsdale, winter is the most expensive season...
Although a public track, Diamond Hawk Golf Course stacks up well when compared to private clubs. It has a handsome clubhouse, a beautiful classic-style course designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan in 2006, and an expansive practice facility. Built on fairly flat...
A complex of yellow barns and an 18-hole course with a spectacular setting of mountains, birches, pines, oaks, and lakes, The Ranch is one course where risk and reward is very much a part of the game. From its very first hole, a 510-yard par 5, a golfer...
Twenty-five years ago when Robert Trent Jones came to Canandaigua in the western Finger Lakes region, he looked from the hilltop site down to the lake and said, “In all the world and of all the properties I’ve seen, this one has just been waiting for a golf...
Kathie is an avid golfer who makes up for atrocious putting with an insatiable curiosity for discovery. She writes about golf, travel, fashion, and lifestyle for magazines, newspapers, and websites. Her journeys have taken her around the world playing courses and finding unique places to stay. Based in the Northeast, she is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America and the Society of American Travel Writers.