Kingsmill Resort – River Course

Just like how environmentalists would check the preservation of a river’s enchantment, in 2004, Pete Dye went back to one of his offspring courses, the Kingsmill Resort – River Course, to oversee some renovation on this ‘King course’ of Williamsburg. To maintain the aesthetic conditions and functionality of this golf vacation destination, Dye incorporated more tees and renovated the fairway bunkering on most of the holes. The effect, a strategically challenging and skilfully demanding layout that puts a player to the steroidal level of a game. The greens now allow for a quicker and slicker putting on the delineated surfaces of the landscape.

Kingsmill Resort – River Course is framed by the relaxing and privy character of the James River, thus the name. This golf vacation course has served as an evaluation location for some of the biggest names in golf. The meticulously manicured greens dew beads sparingly on the holes where a distinct applause can still be heard even from a significant distance. Made to test a golfers individual mettle, this course is a site for players to foresee how they fair up among the best golfers of today.

Dark green colour and fine texture sets the mood of the course with its Penn A 4 bentgrass rolling to tolerate heat and cold challenges, much as the players here are able to. The persistent flowing nature of Kingsmill Resort – River Course defines the best, that is why Golfweek ranked it as the top 10 BEST public courses of Williamsburg in 2010. More to the making of the fame in this golf trip, though, is the fact that it served as a popular PGA Tour site for 22 years, as well as, the LPGA Tour’s Michelob ULTRA Open.

Kingsmill Resort – Plantation Course

There are brothers at Williamsburg, Virginia and they are both structures of aesthetic standards designed by the renowned architect, Arnold Palmer. However, one seems wider and less demanding to play in, offering door for a playful atmosphere. The golf vacation destination referred to is Kingsmill Resort – Plantation Course, which is a 6,543 yards showcasing historical landmarks from 1736 plantations painted into the landscape. With lesser drive positions at play, but more on accuracy and consistency ironed on the greens that make it perfect for putting, the 18 holes course lies modestly. The full rolling terrain, matched with punctiliously sculpted features, makes this course far from being a push-over.

There is a condition for accuracy in any friendly course like Kingsmill Resort – Plantation Course. Without strategically putting a shot, a ball can land elsewhere, making it hard to look for, thus, adding to that sense of anxiety for possible frustration, which would define the thrill. Each hole has a significant character invariable to the theme of this golf trip location. For instance, the second hole carries an easy going and reachable nature with its 503 yards from the back, playing to a slender dogleg right. The fourth hole also has its own quirk being the 1st handicap hole.

The Kingsmill Resort – Plantation Course offers full-service golf vacation packages including the clubhouse and the practice facilities. As the location for the LPGA’s Michelob Light Championship, this course is distinctly fraternal to its brother, the River Course, with its first tee very near the 10th and 18th tee of its brother course. The similarities do more than the bad that critics expect it to, though. In fact, the shared beauty, and sometimes facilities, only provide a kind of synergy to these two very unique courses in Kingsmill. 

Westin La Cantera – Palmer Course

Legendary golf architect, Arnold Palmer, has designed so many prestigious courses in the world. One of them, the Westin La Cantera – Palmer Course, is also the first created public course in South Texas, opened in 2001. As part of the 36 hole Resort at La Cantera, this golf vacation location is a smoothly expanded 225 acres, with 71 holes and 6,926 yards of golfing paradise. In fact, the scenery is ultimately spectacular that some players find it hard to focus on the game. For instance, in the 4th hole, playing for par-3 means being enchanted by the alluring sight of waterfalls along the front edge of the greens. The sight makes players travel into the connecting fairways located by the Winnie Palmer Memorial Bridge, where one can find a heart-warming tribute to Palmer’s late wife.

To compliment the impressiveness of the Westin La Cantera – Palmer Course, there are facilities that are simply awe-inspiring. On the 15,300-square-foot clubhouse, overlooking the 18th green, is a brilliance that stretches to the resort’s Texas Colonial theme. The architectural prowess along with its satisfying services are the main reasons why this golf vacation destination has been acclaimed the Best New Daily Fee Clubhouse in the U.S. by Crittenden Golf Inc. in December 2001. The neighbouring pro shop that displays similar richness was also given its unique recognition as one of America’s 100 Best Golf Shops by Golf World Business Magazine in 2005.

Given the enormousness and spacious landscape, Westin La Cantera – Palmer Course carts are provided with an innovative ParView GPS system that replicate – or serves even better – the good old map. That allows a convenient and awe-inspiring 18 hole golf trip travel around the course where “first-class” as description is an understatement. 

TPC Oaks – Greg Norman/Sergio Garcia

The host of the 2010 Valero Texas Open is more than just a golf vacation destination that shows a perfect landscape for prestigious tournaments. The TPC Oaks – Greg Norman/Sergio Garcia exhibits environmental sensitivity that transcends a deep rooted advocacy for the preservation of nature. Such philosophy is taken from the renowned golf architect, Greg Norman, with assistance from a current PGA Tour player, Sergio Garcia, who offered his passionate perspective on the course.

The 7,522-yard playing for par-72 is similar to a “Dye” because of its ability to route the landscape according to the natural direction of the vegetation. But the TPC Oaks – Greg Norman/Sergio Garcia still shows a layout that is unique to Norman as it incorporates chiseled nuances and native flora of the rolling Hill Country geography into the magnificent course. The golf trip renders a design that compels players to throw their most strategic play and demands professionals to put their best foot forward.

The TPC Oaks – Greg Norman/Sergio Garcia is considered a world class course that has transformed back from contemporary conditions to a more traditional and playable creation. Narrow tree-lined fairways balances with wider fairways tendering several routes to travel. Providing an intimate feel in the golf vacation location are the umbrella of Oaks with slender corridors sculpted through the trees. It is a magnificent place to walk with only 100 feet of fall from the highest point. Reflecting the ruggedness of natural terrain –undaunted by artificial set up– are the bunkers with borders embodying a canopy indigenous oak tress. 

Barton Creek Golf Resort – Palmer Lakeside Course

There is golf vacation course that allows a twilight glimpse of those rare white-tail deer, and it is mindfully rested on a privy hilltop overlooking Lake Travis. The course, created in 1986, is the famous Arnold Palmer designed Barton Creek Golf Resort – Palmer Lakeside Course that is just 25 miles west of Barton Creek Resort & Spa. Secluded atop, this course rewards guests not only of those uncommon sight, but also the delightful features and extraordinary experience of championship golf.

The Barton Creek Golf Resort – Palmer Lakeside Course leads players into the best of their proficiency and accuracy. Not only professionals are compelled to play scientifically, on this course, but also novices who are hungry for some authentic golf trip action. Having a driver accompany into a round of golf is a plus and adds ease and convenience to the play. This paradise for big-hitters is rated among the “Top Ten Texas Courses” by professionals. It is also considered to have the best Champions Bermuda greens in the State.

More awards for its mother resort brings Barton Creek Golf Resort – Palmer Lakeside Course into the same recognition as Mobil’s four star rating, the American Automobile Association’s four diamond rating and Meetings and Conventions magazine’s Gold Key, Gold Tee and Gold Platter Awards. Adding to the reasons why this course is highly regarded is its golf vacation package that ranges from high caliber facilities, special customer services, abundance of recreational spots and accompanying activities, and the finest restaurants to feed the ever increasing number of guests in the place. It’s Palmer’s kingdom offered to the rest of the world.

Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Foothills Course

The astonishing and magnificent design of Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Foothills Course is not the only reason why it is  ranked as the#1 Golf Club in Texas. This Tom Fazio signature golf vacation course, which is Fazio’s masterpiece made in 1986, may comprise those ambitious and dramatic cliff-lined fairways and showcase the natural beauty of limestone caves, waterfalls and brilliant TiffEagle Bermuda greens, but it is those features combined with the strategically directed layout that makes this course unparalleled around the world.

Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Foothills Course‘ 18-hole landscape is established with many elevation shifts and visual contact that put a player into a game of accuracy on the long drive down the Hybril TIFSport Bermuda fairways. The smooth aprons and grass bunkers of the greens define the course as a paradise for both shot-makers and scientific-playing individuals alike. The golf vacation destination has five unique sets of tee boxes that attract a wide range of players coming from different skill levels.

After gaining 200 yards more fairways and tee grasses in 2004, Barton Creek Golf Resort – Fazio Foothills Course has transformed into a 7,125 yards playing for par 72 course. The golf trip location never fails to upgrade and metamorphose into a better-looking plan with extra consistency on the playing carpet of impressive architectural design. Until now, the course persists in being the best as it continues to receive recognition including the Best Resort Course in Texas and some holes (holes #12, 4, 9, 16, 10, 18) listed on the State’s Best or Most Beautiful Holes according to Dallas Morning News.

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.

Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club

Here is a golf vacation destination that is “fashionably sensitive but too cool to care”. Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club in Hilton Head, South Carolina is simply a fun course that stretches a short 6,780 yards at the tips, leading to 5,210 yards. The missing par 5 makes for only par 71, overall, but that doesn’t take out the enjoyment and challenge on this four tee stationed plan. More to the makings of this course are the striking personality of the magnificent scenery, shot-making challenges and a room to wale with the driver.

The intention to make this golf trip friendly to senior and women players is evident. Designer Davis Love III meticulously created the layout to hold water more than any golf course in the area can. The strategically positioned hazards exhibit Love’s signature architectural theories on Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club. There is constantly a new surprise awaiting a golf enthusiast at every corner. Some people find it even a little wicked, with hidden hazards blinding a shot. Nevertheless, it is always a playful and mischievous feel to outmatch the challenges.

Every hole in Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club is an opportunity to adjust calculations and sync strategies with the requirements of each hole. There is a huge bunker from the tee and a crowd of trees right along the edge that also requires serious tactics. Providing a little relief after is the water that frees the area leading a golfer into the sight of  rolling fairways. But the loose tension is short lived with swales that can risk a game if not utilized properly. Clearly, there is a heart racing factor in this friendly course – that makes it all the more worth the experience. Truly, it is easy to distinguish the atmosphere of this course, among many golf vacation destinations around the world.