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Len Ziehm

After 50-plus years reporting on golf for mainly Chicago publications, Ziehm is a lousy retiree. After 41 years at the Chicago Sun-Times covering a variety of sports (but always golf), Ziehm works as a golf columnist for the Daily Herald chain of Chicago-area newspapers. Ziehm has covered 28 U.S. Opens, 11 Masters, 19 PGA Championships, five U.S. Women’s Opens and the last 34 stagings of the late, great Western Open. Since retiring from the Sun-Times in 2010, he has taken on travel-writing projects and has written on golf destinations in 30-plus states. Ziehm is a member of the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.
Farmlinks a Course Like No Other

Farmlinks a Course Like No Other

Alabama is a golf-rich state, with the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail dominating the lists of top courses there.  There’s only one thing missing from the Trail’s 26 courses spread around 11 destination sites. All of those layouts don’t include the best one – at least according to GolfWeek, one of the best-known rating publications.

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Mississippi Golf is Booming

Mississippi Golf is Booming

Mississippi Golf is Booming: It’s no secret that the horrible pandemic boosted the golf industry nationwide, which is most evident in Mississippi. The sport has really taken off there in the last few years.

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Gulf Shores Alabama

Gulf Shores Alabama

Gulf Shores, Alabama – a community sandwiched between Pensacola, FL., and Mobile, AL., and not far from the Mississippi state line – offers a lot more than golf.

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Eagle Ridge’s General

Eagle Ridge’s General

The General at Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa isn’t your ordinary golf course – not by a long shot. So, it’s fitting that this Andy North-Roger Packard design isn’t getting the standard treatment for a course hitting its 25th anniversary.

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Boyne will give its Donald Ross Memorial Course a Fine Tuning

Boyne will give its Donald Ross Memorial Course a Fine Tuning

Comprised of a selection of the greatest holes ever designed by one of the sport’s greatest course designers, the Donald Ross Memorial is the golfing equivalent of a “greatest hits” compilation. The course represents a labor of love, which started as an inspiration, led to years of travel, play and heated deliberation, and culminated into one of the country’s most satisfying courses. A round of golf here looks, feels, and plays every bit like a true Donald Ross design.

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