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Comment by Maureen Blevins on March 5, 2010 at 1:38pm

Will be in Kenya in late August/early September. Any publications interested in golf courses there?

Comment by Evert Jakobs on December 21, 2009 at 12:21pm

Rwanda has a beautiful 18 holes golf course, well maintained and a challenge for every golfer. The course is situated in the main city of Rwanda, Kigali.
Playing this course will be an unforgettable experience for you and for sure in combination with a visit to Rwandas main attractions like the Mountain Gorillas, Akagera Game Park, Nyungwe Forest and Lake Kivu.

But you will find out that Rwanda has much more to offer then this! The woman Intore dancers will show you there graceful dances while the male dancers will show you their impressive movements and high jumps dressed in their traditional outfits.
Traveling through Rwanda is a safari on it self. The beautiful and diverse landscape with its hills, mountains and vulcanous will amaze you again and again.

Access Rwanda Safaris can offer you a tailor made trip through Rwanda, combining Gorilla trekking and/or other interesting safaris, with some nice golf playing, even in combination with other golf courses, like for example in Uganda.

Imagine that you are back home and play your home course again. Would it not be nice to tell your friends that you played at the Kigali Golf Club and met with the Mountain gorillas the other day?

Comment by David Paul Appell on August 28, 2009 at 8:09pm

Anybody happen to catch this piece in today's Wall Street Journal? Here's a smidgeon:

"Thanks, Golf Haters—Now Be Quiet
The Busybodies Who Deride the Sport Should Get a Grip, Preferably on a Club

Since golf seems to lack an antidefamation league, allow me to note the rise in 2009 of antigolf slurs and other inflammatory "incidents." In February, you may recall, the celebrity Web site TMZ provoked a national outcry by revealing that banks that had received federal bailout funds were hosting clients at PGA Tour events. The resulting mini-movement, led by those most unlikely bedfellows, conservative Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly and liberal Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, caused several corporate sponsors of subsequent events to take down the signs on their hospitality tents, even while the sinful hobnobbing continued inside.

In April, USA Today published an op-ed piece that pretty much blamed golf for getting us into the current economic pickle and for everything else "that's retrograde with American life." The author, sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, made hay of the fact that disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was a golfer and said that the world would be better off if vegetables instead of turf grass were grown on golf's "useless lawns." In July, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez joined the discussion by spending most of his regular Sunday television show denouncing golf as a bourgeois sport and ridiculing the use of motorized golf carts."

The rest is at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376400071560402.html

Comment by dave richards on August 25, 2009 at 11:48am

thats three of the top 5:) 5 of the top 25:)

Comment by dave richards on August 25, 2009 at 11:47am

nice to see my friend tom doak having three courses in golf magazines greatest 50 courses in the last 50 years:) that should move to 4 when the fourth course at bandon opens:)

Comment by David Paul Appell on August 24, 2009 at 2:13pm

Just caught this in today's Miami Herald. If anybody's played the Robert Trent Jones course on Venezuela's Margarita Island -- well, that's the end of that:

Chávez looms large over golf: Hugo Chávez's hard-line stand against the `bourgeois sport' has led to the closing of many golf courses

Venezuelan golf fairways, bunkers and greens have become both the stage of an ideological war headed by President Hugo Chávez and a showcase for the Bolivarian revolution's internal contradictions.

After a 70-year presence in the country, golf is now the target of criticism and attacks by Chávez administration leaders and organizations.

Official measures may result in the closing of more golf courses. In the past five years, the number of courses in Venezuela has gone down to 22 from 28, and three more courses may be in line to be closed as well, according to directors of the Venezuelan Golf Federation (VGF).

Among the closed courses is one the famous designer Robert Trent Jones built on Margarita Island -- the only Venezuelan course certified by the U.S. Professional Golf Association.

The other five courses no longer operating are located near oil fields in the states of Monagas, Zulia and Falcón. The courses remain inactive because the government does not consider their maintenance a priority.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1199514.html?storylink=mirelated

Comment by David Paul Appell on July 17, 2009 at 8:13pm

Good tips, Vaclav, thanks!

Comment by Václav W Buriánek on July 15, 2009 at 3:54pm

I wouldn´t consider myself as a golf expert especially looking at my handicap card :-) However to golf in Czech Republic - you have a variety of over 100 golf courses from the cheapest and most uncomfortable ones to 200 dollars courses which are lokated mainly close to Prague, especially in castle districts as Karlštejn and Konopiště.

Regarding Algarve - the most convenient about golf down there (fly to Faro and take a taxi to Vilamoura or Albufeira) is the fact you play all year round. The top season is April - June and September to November, however in the low season you find those courses perfectly ready for 50 dollars incl. free rent of buggy and golf sets. Its a mirracle to play there, but be ready there are no easy courses for total beginners there. If you have any questions, dont worry to ask. Greatings to all golfers, Vaclav from Prague

Comment by David Paul Appell on July 15, 2009 at 3:00pm

Hey Vaclav, so what's the lowdown on golf in the Algarve? You must be quite the expert by now!!

Comment by José Balido on July 15, 2009 at 11:40am

Question for Mr. Buriánek:

Is golf still less expensive in the Czech Republic than elsewhere in Western Europe? If so, by (roughly) what percentage? And what, in your expert opinion, is the top course in Ceská Republika?

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