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Best of Denver, Colorado: Your guide to the Mile High City’s must-play public golf courses

Brandon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:41:40 +0000

There are a multitude of top-flight daily-fee and municipal golf courses in Denver. Make sure you research the many older municipal tracks, but my first choice is to head for the golf-boom venues of the 1980s, '90s and early 2000s. There exist an abundance, spicing up the Denver golf scene. Here's a list of my favorites ...

7th Annual Meijer Charity Classic

support@lpga.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:08:30 +0000

Two-time LPGA Tour winner Christina Kim, Grand Rapids native Allison Fouch and RICOH Women's British Open runner-up Katherine Hull headlined a field of 18 LPGA players at the 7th Annual Meijer Charity Classic at the Highlands Golf Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

For the Love of the Fans: Amanda Blumenherst

support@lpga.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:45:24 +0000

Amanda Blumenherst inspires a breast cancer patient and her husband with a message of hope.

Sun Valley Resort’s Trail Creek golf course in Idaho

Brandon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:40:31 +0000

Robert Trent Jones Jr.'s 1980 overhaul of the Trail Creek course at Sun Valley Resort in Idaho transformed the 18-hole layout. He added a new nine, more severe and challenging, to enhance the impact of the creek for which the golf course is named. Check out the beauty of the Jones' handiwork.

Sweetgrass Golf Club in Harris, Michigan

Brandon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:40:29 +0000

Designed by Jerry Matthews protege Paul Albanese, Sweetgrass Golf Club is one of the most playable layouts on Michigan's Upper Peninsula by golfers of all levels. Highlights of the golf course include the sloping "biarritz" green on the par-3 12th. Here's a look at Sweetgrass Golf Club in pictures.

The Leatherstocking Golf Course in Cooperstown

Brandon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:40:25 +0000

The Leatherstocking Golf Course is located just a home run or two away from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. It plays like an old-time golf course at just 6,400 yards from the tips, but it protects itself with hilly fairways, steep bunkers and lightning-fast greens. It's one to play on the New York Golf Trail.

Lake Michigan golf showdown: Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club vs. Bay Harbor Golf Club

Brandon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:04:29 +0000

Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club and Bay Harbor Golf Club are the two most-coveted plays in northern Michigan. But if you could only play one of the two golf courses, which would you choose? Brandon Tucker takes a closer look at both golf courses in this head-to-head showdown.

Today on Twitter

support@lpga.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:41:45 +0000

Northern Michigan serves as home to golf courses built by many of the game’s top architects

Brandon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:10:41 +0000

Northern Michigan includes as many notable golf plays as any destination in the world. And many of golf's biggest names have unveiled designs here. The region provides a setting ideal for beautiful, dramatic golf designs, thanks to lots of cheap land, rolling terrain, dense forests and sometimes even hilly courses built adjacent to ski slopes. Brandon Tucker offers your blueprint to Northern Michigan courses designed by the biggest names in the business.

Ilhee Lee - Rookie Blog One

support@lpga.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:39:33 +0000

Ilhee Lee introduces herself in her first Rookie Blog.