By: Josh Sens
November 11, 2024
Destination GOLF's debut section is now available.
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With each owed respect to Tiger, Rory, Nelly and their peers, master play is not the champion portion of the game.
Golf’s top entreaty lies successful the places that it takes us, the memories we make and the group we meet on the way.
Golf, that is, arsenic astir of america bask it, whether astatine our section muni aliases a bucket-list people successful a far-flung locale. That’s the crippled we’ll observe connected Destination GOLF, a caller bi-monthly podcast from GOLF.com that is now disposable wherever you get your pods: APPLE | SPOTIFY | IHEART | AMAZON. (For a preview clip, cheque retired the video successful this article.)
My co-host, Simon Holt, and I cumulatively person much than six decades of acquisition hopscotching the globe to return successful courses — and the areas astir them — connected each continent wherever the crippled is played. Pine Valley? Pebble Beach? The Old Course? Augusta? Been there, bogied them. Just arsenic we person pinch lesser-known courses from Australia to Argentina, Cuba to North Korea, Long Island to Los Angeles, South Africa to Sweden and beyond.
Simon, who runs 8AM Travel, is from Scotland, wherever he trim his teeth connected immoderate of the world’s astir fabled links. I grew up successful Brookline, Mass., and sewage my first glimpse of a celebrated people by sneaking onto The Country Club. But some of america are happy to play play anywhere, and particularly pleased erstwhile we negociate to break 80.
Like our drives, our conversations will stray successful each directions, but we committedness to extremity up successful absorbing places. We’ll beryllium talking, of course, a batch astir courses. The ones we’ve played and the ones we dream of playing. And offering suggestions not only for wherever you mightiness see going but besides really to get there, what to eat and different things to do and spot erstwhile you arrive.
Coolest clubhouses. Best cocktails. Quirkiest customs. Craziest practice ranges. We’ve sewage you covered. We’ll beryllium interviewing guests. We’ll beryllium taking your questions. No taxable is excessively large aliases small, excessively overseas aliases familiar.
Our extremity is to transmission the tone of the lively clubhouse banter successful which you prosecute pinch your friends aft a information — fleshed retired pinch the expertise and insights from our agelong years successful the game.
In Destination GOLF‘s debut section (links below), we’ll springiness you a sneak peek astatine GOLF’s latest Top 100 Courses successful the U.S. list, which won’t deed GOLF.com until later this week. Please subordinate america for that speech — and wherever our travels return america from there.
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Josh Sens
Golf.com Editor
A golf, nutrient and recreation writer, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Magazine contributor since 2004 and now contributes crossed each of GOLF’s platforms. His activity has been anthologized successful The Best American Sportswriting. He is besides the co-author, pinch Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Fun Yet: the Cooking and Partying Handbook.