Archive for the 'Golf Course Reviews And Stories' Category
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Elkins Ranch is looking great!
Without giving you a dreary blow-by-blow, occurrences over the last year or so have pounded me pretty hard. While I think I’ve done pretty well keeping my chin up and looking for a bright side most of the time, I had admitted to myself that I most likely wouldn’t be surprised by anything ever again. […]
Published by golfchick on May 26th, 2010 tagged Golf Course Reviews And Stories | 1 Comment »
Oasis Palmer at the Mesquite Amateur
Of all the new courses I played golf at the Mesquite Amateur, I was most delightfully surprised with both courses at Oasis - Canyons and Palmer. Hardly unheralded especially with the name Palmer associated with one of them, but for some reason I was expecting their layout and terrain to be more akin to The […]
Published by golfchick on June 9th, 2009 tagged Golf Course Reviews And Stories, Golf Travel, Golf Trips, Golfchick Performance And Progress, Mesquite Amateur | 7 Comments »
Coral Canyon and Decadent Delight at the Mesquite Am
The second golf course on my rotation at the Mesquite Amateur was Coral Canyon, a course I’d been wanting to play for some time. It’s actually in St. George, UT, about a 45 minute drive from Mesquite. I’d been there before to play Ledges, and I just love the area. I’m a sucker for […]
Published by golfchick on June 7th, 2009 tagged Golf Course Reviews And Stories, Golf Travel, Golf Trips, Golf Wildlife, Mesquite Amateur | 2 Comments »
Mesquite Amateur 2009
I’m home from my Golf Mesquite experience and what a trip it was! After four days of golf in the heat of the desert, late nights and early mornings, I was feeling pretty good. I guess the high of the trip wore off a bit because now that I’m caught up on my sleep my […]
Published by golfchick on May 31st, 2009 tagged Golf Course Reviews And Stories, Golf Fashion, Golf Travel, Golf Trips, Mesquite Amateur | 2 Comments »
Indio, Shmindio. Try putting on the beach.
As the Kraft Nabisco (Dinah Shore) got underway today, the women of the LPGA were making and missing putts on slick, true greens in their first major of the year. The announcers just would not stop talking about the “Indio effect,” which just means the greens tend to break toward the town of Indio even […]
