The developer of Cotton Bay has announced that Robert Trent Jones II, Golf Course Architects (RTJ II) will design a signature private 18-hole golf course at the waterfront resort community in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Familiar with the island from family vacations to the former world-renowned Cotton Bay Club, Robert Trent Jones, Jr., chairman of Robert Trent Jones II, will design the new course adjacent to the former course and Robert Trent Jones, Sr.'s only Bahamian golf course.

When it comes to group golf outing packages, Bayonet Golf Course has saved its best of the year for the rest of the year, with the debut of its "Company Par-Tee Golf Package."

Bayonet, which has hosted PGA Tour, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour events, provides the tour-quality touch to all of its golf experiences and prides itself on making every golfer’s visit enjoyable.

The "Company Par-Tee Golf Package" is ideal for all types of gatherings, from business meetings to bachelor parties, with groups able to utilize the Clubhouse dining area, which offers full service of food and beverage, with its views overlooking Monterey Bay.
 

A small, green insect with an insatiable appetite for bark tissue has impacted two of the country's most popular recreations.

The culprit is the Emerald Ash Borer, a beetle whose short tenure in the United States has resulted in the death of an estimated 25 million ash trees across several states, most in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

For baseball players who prefer wooden bats, it's likely they swing  Louisville Sluggers made with ash from forests on the Pennsylvania-New York border.

For golfers in those states as well as in Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, Indiana, Virginia, Wisconsin and Illinois who enjoy the shade and majesty of treelined courses, it's likely they view ash trees on many of their favorite layouts.

And it's equally likely the view could dramatically change because of an approximately 1/2-inch by 1/6-inch creature sometimes called the Green Menace.


 

Depending upon one's perspective, golf 100 years ago was nearly unrelated to today's game or it has remained much the same as it was when plus-fours were en vogue for the first time.

If technology, corporate sponsors, multi-million dollar purses and the influence of television are momentarily dismissed, a case can be made that little has changed about golf in the last century.

Consider golf's great virtue — etiquette.

Golfers have a dozen more reasons to take advantage of the fabulous fall weather at The Coeur d’Alene Golf & Spa Resort: The September Stay & Play golf package includes a complimentary box of Titleist Pro V1 golf balls.
 
Named this year by the readers of the distinguished Condé Nast Traveler magazine as one of the top 50 golf resorts in the world, The Coeur d'Alene Golf & Spa Resort in Idaho is combining 18 holes on the award-winning Resort Course and luxury accommodations at The Resort’s newly remodeled rooms with a dozen golf balls just like the pros play.
 

Phil Mickelson's first project with his deisgn company, River Rock Golf Club in Cahiers, N.C., will debut in 2010.
 
Weaving delicately along the natural contours of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the River Rock layout that is to debut in 2010 combines panoramic vistas, meandering streams and lush forests into a thrilling experience.
 
"My commitment to golf is to creating the highest quality courses that are challenging, engaging and always provide a truly enjoyable experience each time they are played,” said Mickelson.

Retracing the steps of early American golf course architecture, Bedford Springs Old Course in Bedford, Pa., emerges this July with its classic design methodically restored to satisfy the imaginations of its original architects, while benefiting from the industry’s technological advances in turf management.

Bedford Springs Old Course has evolved through work originally contributed by three forefathers of American golf course design: Spencer Oldham (1895), A.W. Tillinghast (1912) and Donald Ross (1923). This unique and historic collaboration of golf holes stretches across the foot of the Allegheny Mountains along Shobers Run creek, a tributary of the Juniata River, weaving amid the 200-year-old oaks, serene meadows and marshes of picturesque Bedford Springs Valley.