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Quite aside from being an award winning writer, whose travel articles and photography regularly appear in golf and lifestyle publications and websites, Anita Draycott is a self confessed golf fanatic, who has chased dimpled white balls over five continents. She is also managing editor of GolfStyle, an upscale magazine about “life as it was meant to be played.”
Anita's columns are brought to you by UltimateGolf.ca GOLF CORSICAMaking the You Have Got To Be Kidding list
19 OCT 2011: We golf fanatics love to add trophy courses to our brag and bucket lists. And while the Old Course, Pebble Beach and Banff Springs are obvious contenders, I’ve started a new list—hidden treasures in obscure places.
SAVE AND SPLURGEWe’ll Take Manhattan
12 OCT 2011: Who says you have to be related to the Rockefellers to enjoy a few days in New York? From freebies to Big Apple bargains to a few well-deserved indulgences, here’s how to live it up in the city that never sleeps.
GLASGOWScotland with Style
07 OCT 2011: If you have the antiquated notion that Glasgow is a dreary coal-mining town, listen up lads and lassies. Glasgow was awarded the title of European City of the Year 2011 by the Academy of Urbanism whose members include industry-leading architects, planners and designers. Along with distinctive Scottish style you’ll find friendly locals, super shopping and fabulous nightlife. Here’s how to enjoy the high road and the low road on a budget that even the thriftiest Scot would endorse. (All prices approximated in Canadian dollars.)
HUELVA, SPAINGood Golf at Great Prices
05 OCT 2011: In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail from Huelva to discover The New World. Now it's time for Canadians to discover this charming stretch of pristine golden beaches and pine forests near the border between Spain and Portugal. (It's about 98 km from the Faro airport; 125 km from the Seville airport).
SAVE AND SPLURGEOoh La La, Paris
23 SEP 2011: Believe it or not, Anita Draycott, who pens our Fairways to Heaven golf stories every other Wednesday, does occasionally travel without her clubs. Welcome to the debut of her Save and Splurge column. The premise is that just because you haven't won the lottery doesn't mean you can’t indulge at some of the world's most prestigious addresses. Anita will tell you where to splurge, but also savvy ways to economize...which, based on our experiences, is what most folks are looking for when they go on vacation.
AMAZING ASKERNISHRediscovering an Old Tom Morris Classic in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
14 SEP 2011: We golf fanatics love to add trophey courses to our brag and bucket lists. And while the Old Course, Pebble Beach and Banff Springs are obvious contenders, I’ve started a new list—obscure courses that most people have never even heard of. And that is why I recently braved a narrow one-tract road about the width of a pencil, with pull-over passing places and covered with suicidal sheep, in the outer Hebridean island of South Uist. My destination? Askernish Golf Club.
MUSKOKA MAGICGravenhurst Where Golf is Great
31 AUG 2011: I’ve just spent a couple of days in Gravenhurst, gateway to Muskoka. Late summer/early autumn is the perfect time to take a swing in cottage country. Why? No bugs, ideal weather and no piles of fallen leaves to conceal errant balls.
BONNIE SCOTLANDThe Ayrshire Golf Coast
17 AUG 2011: Not far from Glasgow, Scotland’s Ayrshire Coast boasts some fabled links that must go on your trophy list. Turnberry and Prestwick, for example, are amongst the icons on the stomping grounds of Scotland’s most famous baird, Robbie Burns.
WHY THE EMERALD ISLE REIGNS SUPREMEBecause Ireland’s got the Irish
03 AUG 2011: Scotland or Ireland? Which is the better golf destination? That’s a bit like being asked to choose your favourite son. Both offer superlative golf and so much more.
THE GREENING OF GOLF IN CANADAWhere to Swing with a Clean Conscience
20 JUL 2011: We golfers know that look. That somewhat disdainful sneer when I announce to my friend (whose opinion of golf is “surely there must be a faster, cheaper way to humiliate yourself in public while ruining the environment”) that I’ve just booked my annual golf vacation. That implication that we golfers don’t give a damn about the environment. That golf courses are a waste of land and water and nasty pesticides are blight on the natural flora and fauna. But our much maligned sport really doesn’t deserve the bum rap.
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