Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Canyons Course

Besides being Tom Fazio’s second masterpiece, Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Canyons Course is also the #2 Top Golf Club in Texas. The 7,153-yard playing for par-72 layout is Fazio’s signature course, as the renowned golf designer of Barton Creek’s 18-hole installed individual prof shops and practise spots, here, just near the Chuck Cook Golf Academy. There are many panoramic holes with baronial Red Oaks and Sycamore trees along with an exhibit of amazing Hill Country views of Short Spring Branch. Awe-inspiring limestone bed creek also weaves through this golf vacation course. The 561-yard playing for par-5 finishes off with a terrific hold and even competes with the #18 hole Foothills course.

The spectacular scenery of this golf vacation destination is more than just beautiful. The construction embodies a Fazio trademark, showcasing a landscape that protects and preserves the environment. In fact, the layout’s route only follows the natural direction of the acreage. This attitude towards the environment is the reason why Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Canyons Course earned the certification as a the first Audubon International Signature Sanctuary in Texas. The course was also designated as the Certified Signature Sanctuary on October 22, 2003. To this day, Fazio Canyons continues to garner high recognition and impressive ratings in countless publications around the world.

The Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Canyons Course is just two miles away from Austin resort. Aside from a magnificent layout, the location also offers complete golf vacation packages including great dining and accommodations. It is also the home of the honourable Barton Greek Golf Academy.

TPC Canyons – Pete Dye

There is a golf vacation to “Dye” for, but it’s not as unsympathetically aggressive as most Pete Dye designed courses would demand. The TPC Canyons – Pete Dye is friendlier in nature compared to its twin course, TPC Oaks, which partners with Canyons to form a spectacular and comprehensive 36-hole layout. The reason for the modesty is pinpointed to the player consultant, Bruce Lietzke, who plays awkwardly traditional and shyly putts his way into victory, a character obvious in the layout of this course.

The par-72, 7,406-yard of TPC Canyons – Pete Dye is an old fashion golf course with a terrain that was landscaped naturally. Consistent to the uniqueness of Texas Hill Country are the environmental elements evident in this golf vacation destination. Despite the lack of stylized installations, the course still manifests the signature Dye-design, with panoramic fairways, hooding oaks and cedar trees, and a magnificent scene of the Cibolo Canyons, that seats adjacent to the resort. There is also the Scottish pot bunkers, few more wrinkles and church pew-style bunkers on par-4 that are all known styles of the renowned architect.

The course is simply a breathtakingly and resplendent view to anyone’s eye, and that’s the reason why many has transformed into its fan. TPC Canyons – Pete Dye appears to have taken advantage of the harmonious vistas with striking views including native flora draped on the rolling greens. The sight here forces old golfers into nostalgia. A golf trip is never a plain tournament feel when held in this area. Something to look forward to as a novice golfer.

The Club at Viniterra

Rees Jones has done magic again as he designed another magnificent golf vacation destination known as The Club at Viniterra. The vineyards along rolling fairways with an innovative water-conservational system serves as the hallmark for the Viniterra community. The 18-hole championship course showcases environmentally conservational practices saving as many as 80% of the water, usually consumed by the conventional golf courses in the world. Using the glass hybrid “Celebration”, the course needs less water to maintain because of its draught-resistant mechanism.

Historically driven architecture is at its bets as this area is where golfers can witness the exhibit of winemaking that dates back to the early 1600s, when the British law required each adult male colonist to plant 20 grapevines. More than 12,000 square feet with 70 percent reclaimed materials, the layout also shows 40-foot heart pine trusses and pre-Civil War brick that beautify the area and attract more guests in. Aside from the striking on-site winery, The Club at Viniterra is a spectacular land area painted by interstate highways and state roads. From the airport, the golf trip course is just an easy reach that offers contemporary amenities, Colonial Williamsburg, downtown Richmond and countless attractions unique to Virginia.

Traditional Vinterra wine is never too many at The Club at Viniterra clubhouse with a golf vacation package that also features complete amenities, amazing restaurants, separate men’s and ladies’ locker rooms, and the famous golf instructing studio. More facilities include a jogging trail where guests can also take the luxury to walk around the winery or bike around for quicker view of the magnificent landscape. 

Cypress Bay Golf Club

Accuracy is one of the basic foundations of golf, and every player knows its essence. Captivating that factor is the Cypress Bay Golf Club that exhibits a traditional layout on the Grand Strand since 1972. Golf architect, Russel Breeden, purposely positioned spectacular fairways and secured greens in a manner that would stir tactic from a golfer. The 18 hole golf vacation destination consists of a spacious layout supplied with water and sand that takes extra work to serve a challenge for a pin-point accuracy. On the 8th hole is a par 3 that plays for 191 yards bringing a golfer into a tee shot over the water, leading to the green, which is stationed on Highway 17 in Little River, SC.

Over the years, Cypress Bay Golf Club has touched several significant changes with additional installations of fairways and roughs. The bunkers are painted with glittering white sands making it more inviting to play. Artistry shows its best on the greens that are sculpted smoothly which reliably holds the ball on every approach shots. The location comprises a rating of 71.2 with a slope rating of 122. It has a golf vacation package that offers daily golf game with an ‘Open To Public’ guest policy.

Aside from playability, the Cypress Bay Golf Club also attends to a golfer’s general need at the clubhouse bar and grill. The space is the perfect go-to in order to find gastronomic dining and relaxing service, including a cold beer. Aesthetically, the clubhouse mimics the golf trip attitude of the fastidiously molded greens on the course. It is the post-match relaxation area where golfers can still reverberate on a golf game not only in spirit – but through the decorations that echo excitement on every game.

Burning Ridge Golf Club

Known to have be fairly challenging, the Burning Ridge Golf Club showcases two wonderful 18-hole courses designed by the legendary Architect, Gene Hamm, in 1988. Modest rolling fairways, dominant towers of trees and tranquil unruffled lakes are the main attractions of this golf vacation destination. At the East Course is where a generous area awaits a landing, but off the tee and coddled greens are more challenges expecting for a golfer’s best skill. The classic design of this course primarily leads to its label as best Myrtle Beach golf course in 2006, and eventually the best in all of South Carolina.

With 40 to 50 sand bunkers removed during its renovation in 2004, Burning Ridge Golf Club strategically left a few behind to serve for uncontrolled drives during a raggedly configured shot. Several holes have water features made to delay access to the greens, which vibrates a players into strategy. But novices can choose to pass through the greens via the grounds, if they just want a less risky play. Nevertheless, accuracy is the basic demand of a golf trip here, with most fairways constricted by trees right in the landing, and extra rough bunkers to surmount.

The four tee boxes starts off at 4,724 yards at the front, and leads to 6,780 from the tips. That clearly obliges a great deal of calculations for all types of players. But every golfer wants that. When the approach leads to a heartbreaker, though, the redeveloped clubhouse is there to ease off any thwarting feeling, with its pro shop, grill and spacious deck. But most player gets a taste of the win, all the same, especially with the golf vacation package being very affordable compared to other destinations. That’s what Burning Ridge Golf Club is known for – all there is that’s fair – which is something that the golf sport embodies, most of all. 

Myrtlewood – Pinehills Course

The Myrtlewood – Pinehills Course is known to be a golf trip resort that is challenging without being impossible. Finishing off with a fusion of Bermuda fairways and Pencross bentgrass greens, this course also shows strikingly positioned water and sand hazards that test golfers into the top of their playing level. Since its renovation in the early 1990’s, this course has maintained most of the appealing features, which are its primary selling point. In fact, the attitude of the layout made this destination land on the Top Ten Courses in Myrtle Beach as selected by Golf Digest’s in 1997.

Compared to its fraternal twin, Palmetto, Myrtlewood – Pinehills Course is a more target-oriented course. While this golf vacation destination may ultimately be challenging, the length of its course does not beat up an average player too long, which makes it very playable. There are opportunities for two or three consecutive outstanding shots at any part of a round, for roughly six strokes on the card. That means that manipulating this course remains to be a stimulating experience, especially because the slightest mistake can lead into an unforgivable result. That’s the demands of a relatively easy course.

The 6,112 yard Myrtlewood – Pinehills Course also has doglegs that balance out most of the distance factor, and level the playing field. When the easy gets tough, though, golf vacation packages from the Myrtlewood Golf Club will assure that players get the needed assistance. The pro-shop offers full-service individual instruction, large driving range, and putting and chipping greens. If a time away from a nail-gritting game is what guests need, a contemplating view on the Atlanic Ocean is always an accessible grasp. 

The Ocean Course

With most of the holes on the seaside of the Northern Hemisphere, this 18-hole, The Ocean Course, is located in the eastern-most end of Kiawah Island. Other of its holes are positioned on the Atlantic, while the 8 more run parallel. There’s a woman’s touch on this Pete Dye designed golf vacation destination, and it’s Alice Dye’s suggestion to raise the entire course into an elevation for golfers to have easier view on the panoramic Kiawah Atlantic coastline. While the original plan was less demanding, it’s the natural challenge of this new layout that has attracted more golfer’s in.

The Ocean Course has gained quick acclamation on May 2007, when it hosted the Senior PGA Championship. It is set to gain more fame this 2012 as it will host another PGA Championship. Behind the developing reputation, though, is the 1991 Ryder’s Cup that first marked its notoriety as the most spectacular “War by the Shore”. Few more major tournaments were then hosted, including World Cup of Gold in 1997, the inaugural UBS Cup in 2001, World Cup Championship in 2003, and the PGA Professional National Championship in 2005. Aside from hosting prestigious golf tournaments, this golf trip also ranked 25th in Golf Digest’s 100 Greatest U.S. Golf Courses List and 4th on Best Public Course List.

The Ocean Course may have made a big screen debut on the movie “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, but it’s the prime layout that lead it to the Golf Digest name as “#4 Public Golf Course in U.S.” and “America’s Toughest Resort Course.” Aside from the prestigious brand, this golf vacation course is also one of only 17 “5-star” courses in North America in Golf Digest’s “Best Places to Play”, according to the polls. Recently, it was designated as “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” by the Audubon Sanctuary System, and as “Golf Course of the Year” by the National Golf Course Owners Association.

National Golf Club

Providing first class recreational amenities, the National Golf Club is where golfers from around the world find the Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. Amidst the longleaf of Southern Pines is where this golf vacation destination is located. This 18-hole championship plan is a masterpiece of classical features including wide fairways, exuberant course topography and ruffling putting surfaces that are sculpted meticulously into the expanse. The layout surely puts any golfer’s skill to the test.

The Sandhills blend in with the unparalleled architecture, that is Nicklaus-style, into forming the National Golf Club. An exceptional journey into the golf trip course would display the coddled residential community. The neighborhood is an assemblage and path of azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods. The course begins with a one-of-a-kind dogleg left and leads to a drive down the right center of the fairway where a player can pull-off the best stunt into to the green. There are interesting short bunkers to avoid at the right side of the green and one to bail out at the short and left side.

Living up to its commitment in extending an outstanding golf vacation experience, the National Golf Club also delivers complete amenities to its members and guests. Golfers are accommodated at the upscale Club Cottages and Villas nested among towering longleaf that are found only in the Sandhills area. The resort caters for large number of guests which makes it perfect for family reunions and office team building sessions. With complete kitchen facilities, ample living room installations and an overlooking view of the beautiful golf course, this location is a sure way to have a great time.

Talamore Golf Club

In the Village of Pinehurst, there is a golf vacation spot known as the Talamore Golf Club that has advanced as the forefront of all prominent courses in the area. It is a hub for golf traditions that has lived for centuries. With Rees Jones as the architect partner, it is easy for the community to put incredible talent on the layout, with visually striking highlights that never fail to intrigue both professional golfers and amateurs, alike. That includes natural elevations complimenting the installed dramatically sculpted mounding.

Jones originally created this course to compel “thinking” into a play. With length taken out from a long hitter, the course was positioned to allow a golfer the option to take a drive. And this course makes manufacturing a golf shot happen with quality. Every golf trip spells strategy with tactics forming dimension on the game. That means a fusion of classical golf with the diversity of contemporary architectural spirit. The challenges on the course only add to the fun, more than threat a golfer. And those features are the primarily reasons for the fame of this 7,020 yard course, as it received honors with 4 Star rating by Golf Digest. That’s an addition to the awards of this 18-hole Talamore Golf Club‘s initial rank as the top five new courses in America in 1991.

Given the appealing atmosphere of the place, the best way to experience golf in Talamore Golf Club is to take advantage of the golf vacation package that delivers elegant and first-class accommodations in the confines of Talamore Golf Villas. There are also complete amenities including fully stocked pro shop, a driving range, a cabana, and an outdoor pool. That’s about the best experience for a golfer as ever.

Pinehurst #7

With a mountainous atmosphere, Pinehurst #7 provides a thrilling uphill shot on eight of its 18-holes available. Each hole requires the same power and putting accuracy given the challenging layout, originally made by Donald Ross on 1986. As redesigns by Rees Jones come into play on 2002, bunkers that demand risk taking tee shots, wetlands that unfasten a challenge, and doglegs that double the difficulty are evident on site. The testing feel is true especially on the 18th hole, where a downhill par 5 forms to a green, winged by water. The greens on this golf vacation destination is Pinehurst Resort’s largest, but they are as tough to hit because of the elevation.

Apart from the dramatic design, Pinehurst #7 is unparalleled because it is one of the few golf courses in North Caroline that requires enough club on the approach shot. The legend to beat is that no one ever goes long enough in it, even some professionals. So it’s bragging rights to have to go long enough on the many elevated greens. This golf trip area has a rating of 1.4 shots, which is points higher to its adjacent, Pinehurst #8. While this course may seem utterly demanding, it is where risk meets fun; something that golf enthusiasts ultimately look for in a course.

After a long day on the field, golfers can avail of the modest preparations at the Pinehurst #7 Clubhouse. The Ryder Cup Lounge at the Carolina Hotel has tripled size and features offering delectable dishes including house sandwiches, pub grub and complete dinner entrees. The golf vacation package here also shows a dozen beer with seasonal specialties. There is also a Tavern at the nearby Holly Inn with an unassuming space, yet a spacious outdoor patio that is pleasant for a relaxing moment.