In keeping with the philosophy of harmony in nature, the developer’s mission took the natural environment, including flora and fauna, and protected the grasslands, savannahs, salt marshes, oceanfront dunes and maintained 70% of the tree canopy. If you’re not there to golf, you can take advantage of the barrier island’s other offerings of kayaking, birding, tennis, Segway tours or bicycling. Or, do them all. The resort offers 3-½ miles of wide uncrowded beaches framed by wild sea oats, 23 Har-Tru clay tennis courts, 23 swimming pools, a shopping village, a Health & FitnessCenter, horseback riding, several dining choices, nature tours, fishing charters and youth programs. (more…)

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Avid, some say obsessive, golfers, we try to visit at least one world-famous golf resort every year, and this winter, we decided it was high time to make our pilgrimage to the beating heart of golfdom in this country, World Golf Village (WGV) in the northeast corner of Florida. Besides visiting the World Golf Hall of Fame and playing the two unique golf courses there, we would play the notorious Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass at nearby Ponte Vedra Beach, and end our trip at Amelia Island, on the border with Georgia, where we would have our choice of several beautiful courses. (more…)

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Background and career

Amateur career
Duval was born in Jacksonville, Florida. The son of current Champions Tour player Bob Duval, he graduated from the Episcopal High School of Jacksonville. He was the U.S. Junior Amateur champion in 1989. He continued his amateur career at Georgia Tech, where he was a four-time All-American, two-time ACC Player of the Year, and 1993 National Player of the Year. After two years on the Nike Tour, he earned his PGA Tour card in 1995. (more…)

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Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort Golf Club & Spa

Location - Marco Island, Florida

Details -Guests find themselves surrounded by quiet luxury, three and one half miles of sugar sand beaches and the most amazing eco systems in the world at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort, Golf Club & Spa in Marco Island, Fla……..

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McCumber turned professional in 1974 and won ten times on the PGA Tour between 1979 and 1994 including the prestigious Players Championship (1988) and Tour Championship (1994). He also won the World Cup of Golf for the United States in partnership with Ben Crenshaw. He played on the 1989 Ryder Cup team.

Since turning 50 in 2001 McCumber has played on the Champions Tour, but as of 2005 he has not won an event on it. He also works as a golf course architect and was occasionally featured as a golf analyst on Fox Sports.

PGA Tour wins (10)
1979 (1) Doral-Eastern Open
1983 (2) Western Open, Pensacola Open
1985 (1) Doral-Eastern Open
1987 (1) Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic
1988 (1) The Players Championship
1989 (1) Beatrice Western Open
1994 (3) Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, Hardee’s Golf Classic, The Tour Championship

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Two things that swing in favor of Florida being the no.1 place golf tours head to are the prolific presence of top-rated courses and near perfect weather all year round. Another plus is that golf holiday makers have to spend lesser putting away in Florida. Golf is spread out over all major regions with Orlando coming up the tops. Although Disney World has been a traditional competitor, with more than 150 courses, Orlando was meant to be savored on a golf holiday. Courses like the Bay Hill Club and Eagle Creek added in the top 100 best courses in America list by Golf Week see a lot of golf travel enthusiasts.

But the courses at the Grand Cypress are the single most popular on most golf tour checklists. Grand Cypress whopping 45-holes Jack Nicklaus extravaganza is enough to keep your golf vacation busy for a few days. Three 9-hole courses: The North, South & East courses are stimulating in their layout and the way they test a golfer s skills, the 18-hole new course is a Scottish style links course for the more traditional golfer. The best part is that you need to extract only about $120 for the four courses.

Tampa, with its fantastic array of first-class resort courses, upscale daily fee and semiprivate tracks, is fast becoming a delightful golf travel destination. Make a stopover in the other “city by the bay” just for World Woods that offers two top 100 courses Tom Fazio designed Pine Barrens and Rolling Oaks. At $75 each, playing 36 holes on natural golf terrain is quite a bargain. Pine Barrens snakes through a thick pine forest and offers different levels of difficulty with sudden elevation changes and large fairways and teeming bunkers make the game more enjoyable. Sharply defined bunkers and silver white sand contrasting with the well kept greens on Rolling Oaks lend it an Augusta like quality. But don t let all the prettiness fool you because Rolling Oaks is an equally challenging and dramatic course that will add flavor to your golf tour.

The First Coast, home to the PGA Tour and host of The Players Championship, has a course to suit every palate and purse. If your golf travel does not include Jacksonville it would halve the fun. Give it a miss and your golf tour would be poorer by an experience to remember on the Jack Nicklaus designed Ocean Hammock Golf Club in Palm Coast. This 18-hole, ocean front course would cost you $189, however the view and the mentally challenging game it throws up makes it worth the while. Other courses in J-Ville that should figure on your golf vacation checklist are the Pete Dye designed Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach and Arthur Hills creation The Palencia Club in the historic town of St. Augustine .

Golf travel to Florida can expect some of the hardiest yet eye-catching courses like the Calusa pines golf club in Naples and the best part is you don t have to pray for a fortune to play them.

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The Stadium Course at the TPC at Sawgrass is home to The PLAYERS Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship event, and is widely regarded as one of the toughest golf courses in the world. Opened in 1980 and designed by noted golf-course architects Pete and Alice Dye, the Stadium Course was revolutionary for its radical “stadium” concept — like in other sports, fans at the TPC sit in “stands” made of raised mounds of grass — and for its brutal design. (more…)

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