Vic Williams
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05/20/13 • Roadblog
New Mexico Magic Part 1: Black Mesa
As a lifelong desert rat I knew I’d love the golf, scenery and weather in northern New Mexico. I’ve got dust in my veins and sagebrush in my soul, so it would feel like home to me. At long last I filled a huge hole in my golf travel resume. I’d spent a few...
05/09/13 • Roadblog
The Texas Golf Two-Stop, Part 2
One foot in a fairway bunker, one foot on the turf above, ball about a mile below my stance, 5-iron in my hand, the green guarded by two big bunkers left, chill wind howling and hurting. The round had just begun, and here I was playing No. 2 at Carnoustie...
05/06/13 • Roadblog
The Texas Golf Two-Stop, Part 1
A month into the 2013 Major League Baseball season, I’m tempted to employ a mixed-sports metaphor to help describe my latest road trip: In golf, curveballs ain’t always bad. Sure, nobody wants to see a tee shot take a screaming pull-hook path into the weeds...
04/22/13 • Roadblog
A Golfer's O.C. Reverie
What a difference 50 years makes. Or 11 years, for that matter. As a kid in Southern California’s San Gabriel valley, I spent a lot of time on Laguna Beach, where my grandparents lived for a spell in a tiny one-bedroom bungalow just a few steps above Pacific...
04/05/13 • Roadblog
Swooning Over Sea Pines
As the golf world gets all geeked up for Masters week, and rightly so, there’s little doubt that more than a few PGA Tour pros — including those 90 or so souls lucky enough to tee it up at Augusta National April 11-14 — are looking just one more week, and...
03/15/13 • Roadblog
The 'First Coast' of Golf & American History
“We love pack rats,” Travis Hill told me as I soaked up the collection of mementos and personal items donated by last year’s five World Golf Hall of Fame inductees. “The more stuff these people save from their careers, the better it is for us.” Hill, the...
03/09/13 • Roadblog
A Fine Surge for Sawgrass
What a difference a decade makes. The last time I made my way to Florida's northeastern corner — the tourism powers call it "First Coast" since it's coming up on five centuries since Ponce de Leon claimed it for Spain and began one of America's richest historical...
03/04/13 • The Essential Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton: The Next Great Golf Destination
Sometimes it’s tough to pin down the native poetry of a place. The rhythm and meter, its vital images and word choices. You’re either blasting through in a day or two with no time to hear the verse or too caught up in modern distractions to get into the...
02/11/13 • Tourblog
Playin' With Peace of Mind at Pebble Beach
A scant five days after his San Francisco 49ers went down to crushing Super Bowl defeat, Coach Jim Harbaugh was all smiles. A few rounds on the Monterey Peninsula will do that to a guy. Harbaugh stood on Pebble Beach’s fabled 18th green framed by a tableau...
01/24/13 • Roadblog
Tour Courses You (and Tiger) Can Play
I’m not breaking any new ground here — precious little ground is being broken in any corner of America’s golf realm — but it bears mentioning that as the Farmers Insurance Gets under way at Torrey Pines , boasting the strongest PGA Tour full field yet this...
01/08/13 • Features
A Long Winter's Golf Dream
As we speak, the editors of GolfGetaways are finalizing their list of "101 Things to Do This Summer," to be featured in the magazine's March-April 2013 edition. All are, presumably, based squarely in reality. They’re there for the taking, shining in every...
12/31/12 • Getaways
Nine Golf Destinations To Visit in 2013
Fiscal cliff be damned and the elections thankfully in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to hit the road and feed our 2013 golf travel addiction, or, at the very least, start amping up the appetite. Snow white might still rule in your part of the country...
12/17/12 • Getaways
Family Fun American Club Style
Herb Kohler knows his way around waterworks. And golf courses, hotels and restaurants. While he and his loyal army of frontline personnel have mastered the many ways a resort can send a guest, or a whole family of guests — or PGA and LPGA stars for that...
11/26/12 • Getaways
Atlantic City Golf is Alive and Well
Word of Atlantic City’s death as a golf destination in the wake of Hurricane Sandy has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, of the 19 courses forming the Greater Atlantic City Golf Association, only one has been closed for any length of time, and this week’s...
11/19/12 • Getaways
A 7-Course Golf Meal With Some Giving Gratitude
Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday. It’s not even close. I love to cook almost as much as I love to eat, and though the family consensus this year is to gather at a local restaurant, I’m still gonna throw a turkey breast on the smoker and whip up...
11/05/12 • Getaways
Time To Visit Golf's 'Swing States'
Once again America is at the finish line of an election season, and many of us are uttering, not so softly, “good riddance.” Whether you’re barely paying attention or have knocked on a thousand doors and followed every poll like it’s holy writ, the exhaustion...
Editor-in-chief of Golf Getaways (formerly Fairways + Greens magazine), writer and editor residing in Reno, NV. Avid golfer for nearly 40 years, current handicap hovers between 10 and 12. Favorite courses include Lahinch in Ireland, Royal Porthcawl in Wales, Pacific Dunes in Oregon, Pebble Beach in California, Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, Kapalua Plantation in Hawaii, Circling Raven in Idaho and We-Ko-Pa Saguaro in Arizona. You can keep in touch with him and everything GolfGetaways by liking its Facebook page Facebook