Addicted To Golf? Plan A Golf Tour To Ohio

“If I were to give a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life,”, “I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio.” said Wilbur Wright. Millions of people have called Ohio home since its creation in 1803 as the seventeenth state in the American union. It is the birthplace of Aviation and home to one of the best-known names in golf, Jack Nicklaus. Add to this the fact that Ohio offers more than 800, quality, affordable courses and you know where you’ll be heading for your next golf vacation.

Golf travel in Ohio would take you everywhere from Cleveland to Cincinnati to Toledo. Sure, it would take time but in the end you would have played the country’s top courses at rates that won’t make you pray for a fortune. Courses designed by top architects, impeccable tracks and green fees that don’t erode your bank account are the natural magnets pulling people to an Ohio golf tour and everyone goes back satiated yet thirsting for more.

Till a few years ago Ohio was not the most natural or the most popular choice for a golf vacation…Ohio was home to Cleveland, the butt of all jokes. Then Cleveland underwent a magical transformation and suddenly became the darling of the media and people. The credit for that goes in no small terms to the development of the very affordable golf landscape in the Cleveland metro area that helped bring more golf tours to the state and improve its overall image.

Tee off your golf holiday in the Cleveland area and see for yourself how the golf around the metro has lifted Ohio from the lap of ridicule. First up, try the Canterbury Course at the Canterbury Golf Club ($160); ranked as one of America’s Top 100 Greatest Courses by Golf Digest. Host to the first two USGA Open Championships, Canterbury is an 18-hole Herbert Strong – Geoffrey S. Cornish design.

Other courses in the Cleveland area that should be included in your golf tour are Sleepy Hollow in Brecksville, designed by Stanley Thompson ($54 - $36), Dana Fry created StoneWater Golf Club in Highland Heights ($74-$49), Manakiki Golf Course designed by Donald Ross ($42-$36) and Pine Hills Golf Club in Hinckley ($50-$48).

The next stop on your golf travel would logically be Akron and Canton. There are many fine and even historic courses in and around Akron and Canton to satisfy even the pickiest golfer. Consider playing Firestone Country Club in Akron ($$), one of the oldest golf courses in the U.S, and Donald Ross designed Brookside CC ($99) and The Dales ($43-$31) and The Hills ($44- $32) at Tam O’Shanter Golf Courses in Canton.
If an affordable golf package is what you are looking for then consider the courses in Columbus. One of the best collections of daily – fee golf courses in Ohio is condensed here and the city offers tracks designed by top architects. For some incredible golf check out the Longaberger Golf Club ($95), Robert Trent Jones designed Raymond Memorial and The Players Club at Foxfire ($49-$45).

Toledo’s annual moment in the golfing sun is the famed LPGA Kroger Classic, played at Highland Meadows Golf Club in July each year. But there are plenty of courses in this area to choose from, consider Ottawa Park Golf Course, Bay View Retirees Golf Course and the Heather Downs Country Club among others for an easy going, budget-true golf vacation.