Best Golf Resorts of the World

Fairmont Mayakoba sweet deal spa & golf

5-diamond-rated Fairmont Mayakoba on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, below Cancun, has come up with a cool wintertime Sweet Deal Package with Spa and Golf, that includes:

    One night luxury accommodation 

·    Purchase a round of golf at El Camaleon and play as many rounds of golf as you like on the same day

·    Purchase any 60-minute a la carte spa treatment at regular price and receive a complimentary 30-minute customized treatment

·    Enjoy a complimentary boat tour of the water canals with an ecology expert

·    $250 USD food and beverage credit per room, per stay

Sweet Deal Packages begin at $309 USD per room, per night, Nov. 1-Dec. 16, 2009 and $399 Jan. April 19, 2010.

If you ball ends up in the cavernous cenotes on El Camaleon’s first and second holes, just say no to trying to find it--it's not worth confronting the two-foot-long iguana guardians.

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Founder/editor of BestGolfResortsofTheWorld.com,  Karen Misuraca is a travel and golf writer from the California Wine Country. She follows the little white ball around the world and blogs about International Golf Travel at www.examiner.com.

GolfWorld's Top 50 Resort Golf Courses for 2010

Readers of GolfWorld magazine have awarded the Top 50 Resort Golf Courses for 2010, based on a variety of criteria, including quality and condition of courses, reputation, practice and clubhouse facilities, restaurants, accommodations, pro shop and more. Here are the top ten; find the rest on the GolfWorld web site.

1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, SC

2. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Bandon, OR

3. Turning Stone Resort, Verona, NY

4. Coeur d'Alene Resort, Coeur D'Alene, ID

5. Whistling Straits GC, Haven, WI

6. Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, GA

7. Sea Island GC, St. Simons Island, GA

8. Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, NC

9. TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

10. Mauna Kea Beach Golf Club, Kamuela, HA

Waldorf Astoria Orlando & golf course open with intro rates

To celebrate its opening on October 1 of this year, the new Waldorf Astoria® Orlando is offering introductory rates starting at $229 per night.

Guests also receive a complimentary fourth night when booking a stay of three consecutive nights. Guests staying five or more consecutive nights during the promotion will receive a complimentary upgrade to the next room category.
 
Read more here about the new Waldorf in Orlando, and a special golf package at the Waldorf Astoria Golf Club. 

Founder/editor of BestGolfResortsofTheWorld.com,  Karen Misuraca is a travel and golf writer from the California Wine Country. She follows the little white ball around the world and blogs about International Golf Travel at www.examiner.com.

Sawgrass Golf Resort & TPC Sawgrass special for golfers, 7 weeks of the 17th

Home of THE PLAYERS Championship and the famed Island Hole 17, TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort, are offering "Seven Weeks of The 17th," including:

• Three-night stay at Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort

• One round on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course

• One round on Dye’s Valley Course

• One-hour instruction at the TOUR Academy

• Personal forecaddie on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course

• $75 bounce-back golf credit, good for one year

Package rate starts at $170, per person per night; available Oct. 1 - Nov. 20, 2009

Weather on the Atlantic coast of Florida is perfect in the Fall, making this a great beach-and-golf getaway, plus the chance to try the famous 17th Island Green on Pete Dye's legendary PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. The course is ranked by Golf Magazine among the top 80 golf courses in the world, and ranked #1 by Travel & Leisure on their list of Best Resort Courses in Florida.

Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa, named “One of the Top 10 Best Golf Resorts in the World” by Travel + Leisure, is located in Ponte Vedra Beach between Jacksonville and St. Augustine on the Florida coast. The second-largest golf destination in the U.S., the resort features 508 guest rooms, suites and villas, the Spa at Sawgrass, four swimming pools and access to 26 miles of Atlantic beach at the Cabana Club.

Golfers from around the world come to TPC Sawgrass to try to make a dry landing and sink a putt on the island green, the one that Tiger missed at THE PLAYERS 2009, and to challenge themselves to play a bogey-free round, as Henrick Stenson did in the largest comeback in THE PLAYERS history, with a six-under 66 and a four-shot victory.

Founder/editor of BestGolfResortsofTheWorld.com,  Karen Misuraca is a travel and golf writer from the California Wine Country. She follows the little white ball around the world and blogs about International Golf Travel at www.examiner.com.