by Steve Pike | Dec 9, 2025 | golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Golf News, Personalities, PGA Tour, Private Clubs
Architect Brian Curley has returned to The Palms Golf Club – the private La Quinta, CA., course he crafted with World Golf Hall of Famer Fred Couples in 1999 – to complete a modernization that restores the layout to its original beauty while refining it for...
by Steve Pike | Dec 5, 2025 | Events, golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Golf News, Private Clubs
As Sara Bay Country Club – originally Whitfield Estates Country Club – approaches its centennial, a full slate of programs to commemorate 100 years of golf heritage is planned for the legendary club in Sarasota, FL. Sara Bay’s historic Donald...
by Steve Pike | Nov 25, 2025 | Adventure, Culinary, Personalities, Private Clubs, Real Estate, Resorts, Travel News
Special to Spikeongolfandtravel.com When Jessie Rodriguez speaks, golfers listen. The two-time James Beard semifinalist, former Head Sommelier of The French Laundry in Napa Valley (CA) and current resident sommelier for leading private aviation company Magellan Jets...
by Steve Pike | Nov 20, 2025 | golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, Golf News, Private Clubs
Zinkand Golf Design – led by golf course architect David Zinkand and his more than 25 years of experience designing, managing and shaping projects in the field – has completed construction of a short course and practice facility at Chicago’s Saddle...
by Steve Pike | Nov 17, 2025 | Private Clubs, racquet sports, Real Estate, Travel News
The Palm Beaches in Southeast Florida, and Naples along Southwest Florida’s Paradise Coast, each have been known for decades as staples of golf. Meanwhile, Sarasota, 120 miles north of Naples, in the 1960s, ‘70s and 80s, was known for racquet sports – primarily...
by Steve Pike | Nov 16, 2025 | Golf Courses, Private Clubs, Real Estate
By Chris King Peter Howitt, who modeled the theory of Creative Destruction, has been one of the world’s leading economists for years, so the idea that he would be considered for a Nobel Prize wasn’t outlandish. But when Howitt, a member at Champion Hills in...
