Where to Golf in the Fall Months
Many golfers in northern climates may think the season is over. Or at least until that next business trip or Thanksgiving vacation. Living in Colorado, I've played in all types of conditions to quench my thirst for the links. Since I can't guarantee when that one sunny November day in the Twin Cities or Boston will be I've limited my suggestions to warmer climates.
There are three reasons why golf in November is ideal.
First, rates are cheaper. In Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun, it's early season and greens fees are still good. You can play while visiting retired parents. If there are a couple of famed courses on your must play-before-I-die list, November is the time to look for more affordable rates.
Second, golf courses are not as busy. Peak tourist season has not hit Panama City or Orlando. So you won't have to spend half your time sitting in a golf cart.
Third, the weather is better. In Miami it's after hurricane season. Courses haven't been hacked up and the winter grass has come in. Hotel rates are very reasonable, too. When playing golf in New Orleans you won't have to wring out your clothes after you get off the course. Humidity is down, course conditions are perfect.
And don't forget San Francisco and its famously bizarre weather patterns. Tee off in early November and you may think its June anywhere else. Courses may be a little dry, but the fog has cleared. Houston, like New Orleans and Atlanta, boasts low humidity and perfect course conditions.
A course that has been very popular lately in the Houston area is Longwood Golf Club in Cypress, Texas. They just completed redeveloping the Post Oak 9 and you've got to get out and play it. Designed by former touring pro Keith Fergus and Harry Yewens, this Houston area 27-holer is rated among the top five daily fee courses in the Houston area.
San Antonio is good in November for all three reasons. Average November high temperature is 71 degrees and San Antonio city leaders are aggressively courting golf vacationers to visit their courses. To compete with golf destinations like Myrtle Beach, Phoenix and Scottsdale, San Antonio combines classy courses with skimpy green's fees.
Check out La Cantera Palmer Course, outside of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country. Designed by Arnold Palmer, this course has two signature holes. The first is hole #7, The Rattler, featuring a rattlesnake-shape bunker on the left side and a cliff side tee shot eighty-feet above the fairway. The second is hole #12, where the green is guarded by a natural waterfall and creek.
November also is Thanksgiving month. The four-day weekend provides a great opportunity to get away with the family or your buddies for 36 holes. And you'll be back in time to shovel snow on Sunday.
Orlando has challenging courses in the shadow of the Disney kingdom. This is an ideal locale to combine family time and golf time. Celebration (near Disney and Kissimee) is an upscale daily-fee resort course that exudes an atmosphere of beautiful tranquil, fun and challenging golf in Orlando. Conveniently located in Kissimmee near I-4 and just off Hwy. 192, you'll never know you're in the heart of Orlando's tourist district and only minutes away from Disney World.
And if you're in Afghanistan this November it is easy to find a course as there is only one. The Kabul Golf Club course has no grass and is billed as a desert-style course. The greens are called "browns", a tightly packed combination of oil and sand. The owner refuses to close the nine-hole course despite the fact they have only seven golf balls and it's in the middle of a country with one of the lowest GDP's in the world. "People need to play golf," he said. And how!
People do need to play golf. This November, get out there and hit few and have fun.
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Play A Fancy Ball If You Want To Impress
Custom golf balls have a wide range of functionality. Personally designed balls for different events like; weddings, business outings, corporate tournaments, family gathers or high school reunions definitely makes you stand out among the rest.
Exterior customization of balls allows you to choose from the color, brand, and logo of the balls. With the wide range of design from signature balls, photo balls and company logos. It gives you an endless possibility of combinations that tickles your fancy. The flashier the better as they say.
Although customizations of balls are mainly for novelty purposes, keeping track of your ball on the field will be easier if you have your very own ball. In the vast fields of greens players use the traditional white colored balls to keep track of the ball. Novelty custom made balls offers a wide variety of colors, some are even glow in the dark.
The effects of having your own customized balls are mainly psychological, depending maybe to who uses them. Alumni fanatics use their college golf balls for the purpose of showing off their old alma mater while playing leisurely with their friends. Other would be getting custom made balls by the bulk to have them as corporate giveaways.
Most custom made balls can be bought together with their special cases to serve their purpose of getting displayed forever. Some schools have them made to commemorate a sporting event. A lot of students who participated get the chance to have their balls displayed in their own homes as souvenirs. Other organizations use them to show their support in various charity events and show their sporting affiliations. Most schools and companies use a logo golf ball that carries their insignia.
While there are the imprinted golf balls, these might come off expensive depending on the artwork, brand, and color to be used. Online shops such as ziplinegolf offers top of the line Titleist Pro V1 to their very own golf ball lines which only cost for $15 per dozen. On the other hand, if you already have that dream design in your mind, having it imprinted can save you as much as buying cheap golf balls.
Imprinted golf balls do not only cater to golf fanatics but it is also a good gift idea for your dad and friends. There is also a hand full who wants to give their balls a personal touch that they even design the cores to suit their playing styles better. There are also who adjust the weight of the ball according to their preferences by choosing the material for the core to allow enhanced aerodynamics.
Professional players prefer both interior and exterior customization. Not only do they give attention to the dimples and the core of the balls but for the certain it factor that boosts their playing spirit.
Some manufacturers even offer these players their very own line of golf ball to endorse that fits their taste and playing style. All in all, custom golf balls satisfy personal creativity and playing style.
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