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Large, deep bunkers are aesthetically pleasing and intimidating—but they can also add to the difficulty and, potentially, the time it takes to play a round of golf.
Good wine is one thing. When paired with upscale cuisine, it’s another. But when it’s served in a specialty room dedicated to the vinified life, it’s sure to earn serious respect from any oenophiles in your current or prospective membership base. Lakewood Ranch (Fla.) Golf & Country Club discovered this the not-so-hard way. The club launched a series of food [...]
Life at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa got a little bit sweeter on November 1, when the Acme, Mich.-based resort opened Dylan’s Candy Bar, a high-end candy destination featuring a selection of sweets that would stun even Willy Wonka. Created by CEO Dylan Lauren, the daughter of fashion icon Ralph Lauren and photographer and author Ricky Lauren, Dylan’s Candy Bar [...]
Allowing a golf course to be used at the end of the golf season for a high-school cross-country meet would not seem to be a great way to ensure inter-departmental harmony between a club’s event management staff and its course maintenance team. But for the past 25 Septembers, the 9-hole course at Ballard Golf & Country Club, a private club [...]
Like many clubs in seasonal locations, Hound Ears Club in Blowing Rock, N.C. holds an annual year-end event designed to bring members and staff together for one last time before everyone goes their separate ways. And like many of these events, food and music is included as a way to help everyone mingle and enjoy mutual fun. One unique aspect [...]
With corporate sensitivities to public perceptions at an all-time high in the post-bailout era, resort properties have had to become much more creative as they try to revive the group meeting segment of their business. That’s led to a host of innovative new activities now being offered to executives and meeting planners who want to bolster team spirit and generate [...]
Disco is the ultimate social dance experience—or at least it was a couple of decades ago, when people clad in bell-bottoms, movin’ and groovin’ to glossily recorded rhythm-and-blues tunes, filled dance floors across the country. While other genres have long since replaced all that was the Disco Era, the spirit of Discomania is being kept alive at the Officers’ Club [...]
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