Saturday, September 5, 2009

Two Of My Favorite Golf Courses

By Terry Powell

One of the biggest fun with playing golf is that you get to experience different grounds with different landscaping and slopes. The best golf courses vary for different players, as each one holds their own standard. For me, a great golf course should be characterized by rich historical background, world class facilities, breath-taking scenery and rising popularity.

Although it is difficult for all golf players to reach an agreement on the best course in the world, I still feel like to share with you two of my top favorites where you can play this wonderful game. I vote for them not just for the technical challenge they impose on golf players, but also for the extra features that adds to your golfing fun.

1. The Eagle Point Golf Club

This low-profile par-72 club is located in the eastern part of North Carolina. Its green scenery is amazingly impressive, and you can choose to walk as you go through different holes. The club offers a very nice caddie service, and its tennis and swimming facilities will easily spice up your sporting fun.

The club owns a golfing ground of mover 7,000 yards, with a 74.5 rating and replete with 137 slopes for golfer to test their mettle. If this is not enough, the prevailing wind from the Atlantic Ocean will increase the challenge for you. Despite its traditional outlook, the club is filed with world-class facilities including a high-tech learning center where golf player can learn to advance their skills. What makes the club even more attractive is the town's unbeatable weather year round and the great private retreat. Even if the club tries to stay low-profile, its business never stops to be thriving.

2. The Concession In Florida

This club was created by two legendary golfers - Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin. Since its opening in 2006, the club keeps being featured in the best golf course list by a number of well-known publications such as the Golfweek.

This club has a coverage of 7,470 yards, with 155 slopes and 77.6 rating. This, coupled with its amazingly beautiful landscaping and fairway bunks, has made it a most challenging yet enjoyable golfing course for players. If you would like to know how its name derived, we need to look back to 1969 when Nicklaus yielded a three-foot putt. That act of sportsmanship was all needed by the British team (led by Jacklin) to tie with the Americans. Although the Americans were the winners of the tournament, the act was forever etched in the annals of the sporting world. Many years later, the two golf legends teamed up to develop a golf club on a 1,200-acre property, which is the Concession In Florida we get to enjoy today.

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