Golf cart joyriders trash Palmetto Hall courses
Four golf carts were stolen from Palmetto Hall and driven around the Hilton Head Island plantation's two golf courses last weekend, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report released Thursday.

Powell decries water rights transfers for golf courses
Unhappy to see more water right transfers proposed to irrigate a golf course, Lincoln County Commissioner Jackie Powell Tuesday repeated her fears about future water shortages.

Economic downturn impacts golf course care
The unofficial No. 1 topic at this week?s Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association (CGCSA) convention in Myrtle Beach was the sagging economy and its impact on the most expensive part of golf, course maintenance. With play flat or down nationally and increased costs to keep courses running, superintendents shared ideas for coping. One upbeat note: At least the financial downturn was not ...

Golf courses hope for resurgence in participation in their game
Robert Jan doesn't enjoy the fact that his business has been flat.

Travel Picks: Top 10 new golf courses in 2008
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - The Castle Course at St. Andrews in Scotland was named as the top new golf course of 2008 by Travel + Leisure Golf magazine, which described it as one of the most ambitious designs that would keep golfers talking.

Golf books demystify course design
For many golfers, a golf course designer is a name on a score card or perhaps the target of an expletive when the golfer hits trouble during a round. Two new books, however, not only humanize some well-known, and some not-so-famous, golf architects, but also show how insight into design can help golfers play better and have more fun.

AZ golf courses looking to offer bargain classes
This is normally the time of the year when Valley golf courses are packed. However, this year courses are seeing less green because of the weak economy.

Golf Courses Heading Off Chart of Muni Anxiety Scale: Joe Mysak
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- If 2009 is going to be like 2008, another record year for municipal bond defaults, what do you have to worry about?

Seniors
Austin Senior Golf Association. Tournaments held Tuesdays at various Austin Municipal Courses. Membership open to people 62 years and older. $5 annual dues. 250-1596, visit www.austinsga.org.

Golf club recognized for protecting wildlife
Shadow Ridge Golf Club in Palm Desert has become the 18th Marriott property to become certified through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses.

Colorado Golf Club selected as site of 2010 Senior PGA Championship
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Colorado Golf Club, which opened for play in 2007 as one of the premier new courses in America, has been selected as the site of the 71st Senior PGA Championship, the most historic and prestigious event in senior golf. The Championship will be contested May 24-30, 2010, at the course in Parker, Colo., approximately 25 minutes southeast of Denver.

Courses in ACS Golf Pass
Three Hanover area golf courses are included in the 2009 American Cancer Society Golf Pass, a book offering discounts for 107 Pennsylvania courses.

Alan Blondin: On golf
Tony Parrish, the leading money winner for the past two years on the Grand Strand Pro Golf Tour, would like some winter events to keep his game sharp. So he's doing something about it. The Tony Parrish Winter Tour will consist of 10 events - two a week - over five weeks from Jan. 5 to Feb. 5. "I've had a lot of people say they're interested in playing through the winter so I'm going to start up ...

City Council votes down golf net ordinance
The Plano City Council met Monday night to vote on a controversial ordinance regarding golf nets designed to protect homes located on a golf course. Plano residents braved the tornado watch and torrential rain to hear comments of public interest and waited anxiously for the council's decision.

Folkston golf course set to reopen Dec. 1
FOLKSTON - After a four-year hiatus, golf is returning to the Folkston area.

PGA Learning Center to host Play Golf America Day Dec. 3rd.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Some 70 PGA Professionals, including many of The PGA of America's premier golf instructors, will be among the featured instructors at Play Golf America Day, Dec. 3, at the PGA Learning Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla. There is no admission charge.

Best U.S. public courses, No. 4: Bandon Dunes
The year-long countdown of the best two dozen public courses I have played in America continues towards a stunning climax by year?s end. With this post we move into uncharted territory: the Final Foursome! For more information on the countdown...

CARD to install disc golf targets at DeGarmo, Community parks
CHICO ? Recreation officials want to put several disc golf targets suitable for practice in two large area parks, but will need community help to carry out the plan.

'Pete Dye Golf Courses' by Joel Zuckerman
The timing of author Joel Zuckerman's massive four-color biography of Pete Dye is nigh perfect; the man known far and wide for his "Dye-abolical" course designs was inducted into golf's Hall of Fame in November 2008.

Weather ruining our golf courses (just don't tell Donald Trump)
SCOTLAND'S top golf courses are being harmed by the miserable weather, the people who look after them warned yesterday.