Play the Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo and you will likely be bitten and definitely smitten. One of the prettiest and longest stretches of contiguous beach holes makes this course world famous and most impressive. Yet it is a mere component of Casa de Campo, a destination village unparalleled in the Caribbean with an equestrian center, tennis, spa, beach, marina, stone village and yes, 63 beau… Read More
This summer, when Oliver Horovitz dons his St. Andrews caddie bib and picks up the clubs of some unsuspecting hacker paying homage to one of the holiest of holy grounds in the game, it will be the Harvard grad’s eighth summer as a pack mule on the Old Course.
What began as a “what the hell?” way to fill the yawning months between high school graduation and his deferred Harvard career show… Read More
New England golf lost a good friend and benefactor when William A. Sandri, proprietor of Massachusetts’ Crumpin-Fox Club, Connecticut’s Fox Hopyard, and Fox Hollow in Florida passed away last month at the age of 67.
Sandri, who died on December 11 at his Crystal Beach, Fla., home after some six weeks of declining health, helped his father, A.R. Sandri, grow the family’s oil business into a… Read More
Keegan Bradley may wish the village of Lombard, Ill., had sold this particular squad car about three months ago. But the 2005 Crown Victoria that a state trooper used to drive Rory McIlroy to Medinah in time for his Ryder Cup singles match with Bradley in Sunday’s finale will be up for bid on eBay next month.
Lombard deputy chief Pat Rollins used the unmarked car to shuttle… Read More
TPC Boston hosts the PGA Tour's Deutsche Bank Championship over Labor Day weekend
When it comes to the PGA Tour, there's no place like New England to stage a tournament.
Connecticut’s Travelers Championship came up big in the tour's Monday announcement of its season-ending “Best of” awards, nabbing honors for “Most Fan Friendly Event,” “Best Use of Players,” and… Read More
Maine-based Harris Golf owns and operates nine golf clubs throughout that state—including the award-winning Sunday River Golf Club. The company hangs its hat on a concept it calls “preservation”. Harris’s mantra is Preserving the game of a lifetime… while protecting the environment in which it is played. “It’s a dual mission for us,” says Matt Barnard, a spokesperson for the com… Read More
San Juan Hills GC was the recent landing spot for shark that seemed to plummet from the sky
This one’s right out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and while the incident in question occurred 3,000 miles due west of any New England fairway, when a live shark falls out of the sky and lands on the tee box on a golf course, it’s news even in Boston.
Out of the blue -- n… Read More
As far as long-time Meadow Creek member Glenn Goldman is concerned, the owners-to-be of the renamed Four Oaks Country Club in Dracut, Mass., are white knights masquerading in golf togs.
“I am very excited about having local ownership,” Goldman told us recently about Mike and Cindy Kuenzler and Peter and Tina Niarhos rescuing the troubled course from bankruptcy and remov… Read More
The earth literally shakes as the new owner of Shaker Hills Country Club blows up the 18th hole
Harvard, Mass. -- The track formerly known as Shaker Hills Golf Club will welcome golfers back to its fairways and greens later this month as Shaker Hills Country Club. While the name change may be minor, new owner Tim Curtis has already begun extensive alterations to the 21-ye… Read More
Several weeks ago I was looking for a venue for a game with a friend who lives in Salem, and ventured onto the Granite Links Golf Club website. I was aware that the course had been ranked in the Top 25 this year by NEGM, but knew little about it. I booked a time. It turned out to be one of my most enjoyable rounds of the year.
The course, carved out of old granite quarries, sits promine… Read More
