Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course remains as a “land paradise”, which its earlier settlers calls it, despite redesigns from the renowned golf vacation architect, Jack Nicklaus, who also renamed it as Williamsburg National. Playing for 6,953 yards, where an old saw mill used to stand, the magnificent new landscape leads through dense hardwood forests, a stretch of impressive wetlands, abyssal ravines with lakes and ponds to adorn the scenery. Generous landing areas and large and fast greens define the fairways of this 18-hole course where water comes as basic play.

Several holes demand a strategically placed tee shot especially the number 16 with 201 yards playing for par 3, where golfers need to take a long carry outmatching heavy wetlands on the sizable dark greens. That characteristic adds to Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course‘ rating which is an impressive 72.9 and a slope of 126. Providing for more playability are four sets of tees and bent grass greens on the Bermuda fairways. Forty-five bunkers allow players to decide if they consider it a problem in this golf vacation destination, especially with the ample amount of water surrounding it is an element to grapple on.

Putting a label to the illustriousness of Williamsburg National Golf Club – Jamestown Course are many recognitions including a vote on one of the “Ten Best Courses You Can Play in Virginia” by Golf Digest magazine and a top 10 course in Virginia. Golf Digest subscribers also threw 3 1/2 Star rating for this one of a kind golf trip destination.

There are ideals for every golf vacation destination, such is evident in the conveniences that the amenities in Traditions at Royal New Kent offers, which are full-service bar, dining and meeting rooms, practice facilities, and a pro shop, consistent to the high standards of its main attraction, the golf course. The basis is the spectacularly manipulated landscape with greens that shy away behind sharp, grassy knolls, and rock walls that hand stack along tall meadow fescue grasses. The par 72 golf course also features 12 bunkers which grow shadows lining into the enormously smooth greens that has audacious swales and ridges. Each hole offers a different kind of game for a golfer.

While meeting standards is the basic effort of this golf vacation course, it constantly goes beyond great. Topping among the best public courses in Williamsburg in the 2010 Golfweek, this course, flowing 7,372 yards, is a mind-sweep windswept ruggedly landscaping a golfer’s strategical play. Traditions at Royal New Kent has been called the “the truest representation of an Irish links in America” because it is evocative of the Irish Landscape, where Royal County Down and Ballybunion were built, which fulfils the link-style vision of its architect, Mike Strantz.

The character of Traditions at Royal New Kent lead to several recognition  since 1997, when it first received the honor as “Best New Upscale Public Course in the Nation” by Golf Digest and No. 23 on Golf Magazines’s Top 100 you can play. Two years after that, this golf trip course received another name as one of “America’s Top 100 Greatest Golf Courses” by Golf Digest. After the millennium, Golf Digest placed it among the top three courses in Virginia with 4 1/2 star ratings. The course is traditions painted in royalty.

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.

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 4^th 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.