Golf Vacation Insider: Where to Play, Where to Stay, What to Pay

Some “breaking news” from all of us here at Golf Vacation Insider:
Over the next couple months, Golf Vacation Insider will be merging with Golf Advisor.
You may already be familiar with this great site, but if you’re not, here’s a brief primer:

We get emails from subscribers all the time, telling us how much more fun it is to watch a professional golf tournament on TV at a course they’ve played.
Not only is it an extra thrill to see a course I know on TV, but when I get to play a course that has hosted televised golf before, I always find myself thinking about shots I’ve seen over the years from that course’s particular tournament....

From all of us at Golf Vacation Insider, Happy Thanksgiving Week.
There are certain fairly universal things everyone is thankful for this time of year. So we went a little outside-the-box to come up with reasons why you, the traveling golfer, should be particularly thankful. Let us know how we did in the comments section...

Having been obsessed with golf since my father first put a club in my hands at the age of six, I have probably read as many descriptions of golf courses as any living 28-year-old.
And over the years of seeing blurbs in magazines and ads about all sorts of facilities, I’ve noticed that there’s one word that tons of courses – all courses whose fairways aren’t tree-lined, more or less – use to describe themselves....