by Steve Pike | Jan 9, 2026 | golf business, Golf Course Design, golf course management, Golf Courses, Golf News, Personalities, Real Estate, Resorts, Travel News
By Hal Phillips HAWKES BAY, New Zealand — It takes 20 minutes to drive from the entry gate at Cape Kidnappers to the clubhouse. If golfers aren’t staying at the resort’s luxury acccomodations, the Rosewood Cape Kidnappers, they enter the property on the shores of...
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 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...
by Steve Pike | Nov 12, 2025 | golf business, Golf Course Design, Golf Courses, golf entertainment, Golf News, Personalities, PGA Tour, Private Clubs, Real Estate
Seventeen-time PGA Tour Champion Jim Furyk has unveiled his first-ever signature golf course at Glynlea Country Club at Wylder, a new golf and country club community developed by GreenPointe Holdings, LLC in Port St. Lucie, FL. Among other amenities, the new...
by Steve Pike | Nov 1, 2025 | Golf Courses, Private Clubs, racquet sports, Real Estate
How does a luxury country club community build its racquet sports program? In the case of Tesoro Club in Port St. Sluice, FL., it hires Brad Leu – one of the Southeast’s more respected directors of racquet sports and tennis instructors, as its Director of...
