Golf
Global City Guidebook 2024
Jul 29, 2024Enjoy a Day of Play at The Highlands, Florida Style
The Highlands, part of The Meadows Country Club in Sarasota, was designed by Francis Duane, a native of The Bronx, New York. Duane worked with greats such as Robert Trent Jones and Arnold Palmer, eventually going out on his own to design renowned courses such as Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri; Big Sky Resorts Golf Course, Big Sky, Montana; Half Moon Bay Links, Half Moon Bay, California; and Kapalua Resort, Lahaina, Maui, Hawai‘i. Duane is known as a profile in courage in golf architecture, as he contracted Guillain- Barré Syndrome, a debilitating disease. Through his illness and as a wheelchair user he still traveled, often with connecting flights, to courses under his design to craft places we still play and enjoy today.
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June 2024
Jun 15, 2024Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at Tatum Ridge Golf Links
A last-minute option to play golf on St. Patrick’s Day landed Frank Wood, Global Traveler Advisory Board member, and me on Tatum Ridge Golf Links in Sarasota. I book through the GolfNow app but was told Teeitup had a better deal. The course was built in 1989 by Ted McAnlis, who designed many courses in Florida including The Preserve Golf Club at Tara in Manatee County and Pelican Pointe Golf & Country Club in Venice. In 2003 McAnlis received a 10-year prison sentence for tax evasion; he had not filed a return since 1977. McAnlis represented himself at the trial and said Social Security numbers were the mark of the devil. But I do hear he likes birdies on scorecards.