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Steve Pike

Steve “Spike” Pike is a lifelong journalist whose career covers Major League Baseball, the NFL, and college basketball. For the past 26 years, Spike has been one of the more respected voices in the golf and travel industries, working for such publications as Golfweek, Golf World, and Golf Digest for The New York Times Magazine Group. In 1998, Spike helped launch the PGA.com website for the PGA of America. As a freelance travel and golf writer, Spike’s travels have taken him around the world. He has played golf from Pebble Beach to St. Andrews, walked the Great Wall of China, climbed an active volcano in the Canary Islands, been on safari in South Africa, and dived with sharks off Guadalupe, Baja California. Steve lives in Delray Beach, Fla, and posts his golf and travel content on his website at spikeongolfandtravel.com. He can be reached at spikee41@hotmail.com.
Panther National Golf Club

Panther National Golf Club

When Panther National Golf Club opens in November on approximately 430 acres of land in the western reaches of trendy Palm Beach Gardens, FL, it will signal the debut of one more ambitious golf course community project in the history of South Florida.

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PGA National Members Club

PGA National Members Club

It’s easy to see most of the changes brought about by the recent $100 million renovation to PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. For example, there’s a new entrance gate near the front of the resort; the lobby is bright and airy; and six new dining outlets are highlighted by restaurants led by celebrity chefs Jeremy Ford and Lindsay Autry.

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Arnie and Jack

Arnie and Jack

In the Arnie and Jack audiobook, listeners will get a front-row seat to many of golf’s cherished moments in locales rich in history, as narrated by 92-year-old Mechem with a combination of wit, humor, and emotion. Through his stories, Mechem, former Commissioner of the LPGA, takes you on the course at pro-golf’s famous Bay Hill, Camargo Club, Muirfield Village, Tradition, and Augusta National, as well as off the course at the Arnold Palmer’s Restaurant, the Captain’s Club, even the White House and Congress.

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Mission Inn, King and Prince – Common Ground

Mission Inn, King and Prince – Common Ground

Mission Inn Resort & Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL., has much in common with the King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort on St. Simons Island, FL. Think about it. Each property is a bit off the beaten track; each was or has been family-owned for decades; each is surrounded by history; and each offers an outstanding golf course that sets it apart from others in their respective areas.

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The Tesoro Club

The Tesoro Club

A new ownership group of The Tesoro Club, which purchased the Club, its two golf courses, 100,000-square-foot clubhouse, Swim & Racquet Club, and approximately 900 home sites from Straub for $40 million in 2020, deserves praise for restoring a virtually abandoned property. 

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PGA Frisco

The PGA of America complex in Frisco, Texas, is a monument to all that’s great about golf. But it’s also a monument to all the people who make the sport what it is, from the nearly 28,000 PGA Members and Associates to weekend warriors to the LPGA and PGA TOUR Professionals we watch every week.

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Creating Cabot Citrus Farms

Creating Cabot Citrus Farms

As he stood in the sand surrounded by the mossy oak trees and scrub bushes of North Central Florida, Ben Cowan-Dewar reflected on the first time he saw the former World Woods Golf Club he is developing into Cabot Citrus Farms.

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Ashworth Golf’s Homecoming

Ashworth Golf’s Homecoming

Ashworth Golf is proof positive that you can go home again. The brand that changed the golf apparel industry in the late 1980s and ‘90s basically had been dormant since 2016 after Adidas sold its then-parent TaylorMade Golf to KPS Capital Partners.

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Bonita Bay

Bonita Bay

Every private golf club community in Florida (and beyond) believes it is a model for being the best and brightest the industry has to offer. Only a few, however, walk the walk. For the past five decades, Bonita Bay Club has been among those clubs. With a total of five golf courses (three by Arthur Hills and two by Tom Fazio), Bonita Bay Club – spread across two campuses between Naples, FL., and Fort Myers – is the epitome of a Florida luxury golf community.

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Evermore Orlando Resort

Evermore Orlando Resort

Evermore Orlando Resort opens in January 2024; an all-inclusive resort that offers something for everyone. Whether you’re looking to relax by the pool or enjoy a day of adventure, Evermore has got you covered.

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Astor Creek Country Club

Astor Creek Country Club

Golf course architect Chris Wilczynski says work is progressing on schedule at the new 18-hole course at Astor Creek Country Club in Port St. Lucie, FL., the first golf course community that Kolter Homes has developed from the ground up. Wilczynski has been making weekly site visits to oversee the work with golf construction company Ryangolf, landscape designer RVI, irrigation consultant Tony Altum, and irrigation contractor Nutt Irrigation.

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