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By Dave McKibben It had been over 30 years since I last teed it up in the picturesque Mexican coastal resort town of Puerto Vallarta. The trip was memorable because it was my first time skipping a hole because of a dangerous hazard. A crocodile was patrolling a green side lake on the back nine […]
By Dave McKibben Cabo is the undisputed golf capital of Mexico, with nearly 20 courses lining the tip of the Baja Peninsula, many of them perennially ranked among the 100 in the world. The other 200 or so courses in Mexico are sprinkled throughout the country, so there doesn’t appear to be a clear No. […]
By Dave McKibben When the tide is up, the world’s only golf hole with a natural island green isn’t accessible by land. The rocky cart path on “Hole 3B”–from the beach to the offshore green–is submerged in several feet of water. Tourist Brian Nairin drilled his six-iron shot nearly 200 yards over the Pacific Ocean […]
BY DAVE MCKIBBEN It started with an unexpected discovery while cleaning out an old garage. Greenwood founders Joel Luyt and Mark Wilson found an antique putter with a wooden head and immediately noticed that the resonance and feel of the wood head hitting a golf ball was unlike any other putter on the market. “We […]
BY DAVE MCKIBBEN What would it take to make the best-looking, most innovative, and most fun golf bag for the modern golfer? Here’s how MNML Golf did it: MNML Golf founder Sam Goulden realized there hadn’t been a real innovation in the golf bag in over 20 years. So they set out to make a […]
Fishing poles still outnumber golf bags in the baggage claim terminal at Loreto’s tiny airport on Baja Sur’s east coast, where the balmy, blue-green Sea of Cortez waters are loaded with snapper, grouper, dorado, marlin, sailfish, seabass and yellowtail tuna. But in the past year, more and more golfers—some of them quite famous–have begun arriving […]
Golf’s glory days of the 1990s and early 2000s, when over 4,000 courses were built in the United States, are long gone. Over the last decade, over 800 golf courses have closed in the U.S., including nearly a dozen in San Diego, one of the industry’s hot beds. But here in Los Cabos, Mexico, the […]
LA PAZ, MEXICO – From the back tees perched atop a cliff, a well-manicured fairway sits 250 yards and a 200-foot-drop away. A pristine green sits 612 yards in the distance; just beyond lies the rich turquoise waters of the Sea of Cortez. Not only is the 14th hole at El Cortés Golf Club the […]
The adventurous two-hour trek from Carlsbad, through the backroads of San Diego County, down twisting mountain roads, was worth the trouble. Over the last 15 months, I’ve been lucky enough to tee it up on a handful of spectacular, highly-rated Nicklaus-designed courses along the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean in Mexico and Hawaii. […]
It wasn’t until the third hole that I began to understand the significance of this sunny and crisp October day, which marked the grand reopening of the iconic Wynn Golf Club on the Las Vegas Strip. Veteran PGA Pro David Barnhart had caddied hundreds of rounds for high rollers, celebrities and hackers like me, and […]
