Los Cabos, Mexico continues to be a hot destination for vacation travelers. Found at the tip of the 1,000-mile long Baja Peninsula, Los Cabos is also a popular place for golfers.

Los Cabos is proud to currently offer four of the top five golf courses in all of Mexico. That list will get longer as the area will soon add three more golf curses.

Los Cabos has become coveted location for avid golfers over the last two decades by featuring popular, world-class golf getaways plus the numerous award-winning hotel and resorts.

In 2014, Los Cabos will launch two new golf courses at Diamante and Quivira, with involvement from two of the best-known golfing figures anywhere – Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.

Diamante is a luxury timeshare development that was built on huge sand dunes above the Pacific Ocean. Located just several miles north of Cabo San Lucas, Diamante’s top-rated Dunes Course was designed by pro golfer Davis Love III. Featuring breathtaking views, golfers can also view migrating whales near the shore during the winter months.

The new Diamante golf course – Dunes Course will open in mid-2014. Later next, another course is set to open – El Cardonal. El Cardonal will offer an “Old California” design motif and is the debut of superstar golfer Tiger Woods.

Next to Diamante at the Pueblo Bonito development is Quivira. This breathtaking golf course layout was designed by the legandary Jack Nicklaus.

Nicklaus was quoted, “Our team is working with the canvas Mother Nature has provided to create one of the most spectacular courses in the world.”

Quivira offers windswept dunes, raw desert plus steep cliffs. Expectations are high as the new Nicklaus golf course is expected to rank among his most memorable golf creations. Quivira is a $40 million golf development with a scheduled opening planned in the summer of 2014.

If you can’t wait for Quivira or Dunes Course to open, consider Chileno Bay which will open December 31, 2013. Chileno Bay is a Tom Fazio-designed course that fronts one of the most desirable beaches in all of Los Cabos. The course offers stunning views high above the scenic Sea of Cortes.

The memorable hole on this new Cabo golf course will be the long par-4 18th. The fairway falls down to a sprawling green, with the sea as its backdrop.

Eduardo Segura is the Managing Director of the Los Cabos Tourism Board and stated, “We could not be happier to welcome these three courses, designed by some of the best in the industry, to our destination. Already home to some of the best golf offerings in the world, the addition of these courses will truly raise the bar of excellence and take the Los Cabos’ golf scene to the next level.”

So make Los Cabos you rvery own exotic escape and try one of the championship golf courses.

If you would like to make a vacation reservation to Los Cabos, Mexico – please contact The Life of Luxury and one of our travel concierge specialists can help with all of your trip arrangements.

The Falls Golf Club

The popular golf course at Lake Las Vegas Resort in Henderson is The Falls Golf Club, a masterpiece designed by Tom Weiskopf. Falls Golf Club is a golf experience you will always remember.

As you exit Lake Mead Parkway you will see the club house on your left and the golf course on your left and right of the road. The front nine, located on your left, the back nine on your right. As you might expect a golf course of this caliber has friendly professional staff.

The 7,250-yard, par-72 course challenges golfers with terrain that varies from the mountainous landscape to the desert floor, creating elevation changes ranging from subtle on the front nine to dramatic on the back nine.

Resort guests are astounded by the course’s breathtaking scenery including spectacular views of Lake Las Vegas, the surrounding mountains and the Las Vegas Strip in a unique, dramatic, and natural setting.

The Falls Golf Club also features a beautiful clubhouse with pro shop and dining for lunch available, and a comfortable indoor lounge and outdoor patio with spectacular views of the course.

The Wolf course, being dubbed as the most difficult course in the Las Vegas valley, is a golf lovers delight at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort.

Pete Dye thought of what creature a golfer would not want to come across in the desert (other than a rattle-snake) and that would be a wolf. That is a perfect name for this course, because it is scary and does make you feel like its teeth are snarling at you dripping with saliva. In other words, this track is tough. Utilizing every aspect of the desert landscaping, Wolf was designed to give the most skilled players a run for their money.

With the fairways being tight and the greens small, there is little room for error if you want a good score for your handicap. The natural desert wash areas are strategically used on each hole forcing long hitters to hit it straight or work the ball to find the short stuff.

The signature hole and the one you will always remember is number 15. It is a par-3 that plays 182 yards from the tips. Doesn’t sound tough huh, how about a true island green to go along with that?

Not hard enough, how about a three-tiered greenfor ridiculously hard putts. Even though the green is generous in size, for some reason the island green makes it look smaller. This hole is picture worthy.

The Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort is located roughly 30-40 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. This is a full featured resort including all of the normal amenities: driving range, chipping and putting greens, full bar and restaurant, generous sized golf shop, and full banquet or reception accommodations.

The course is designed with rye fairways, fescue rough, and bentgrass greens. The greens come with moderate to severe breaks and undulations. Enjoy your round at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort.

Las Vegas golf is at its best at the scenic Desert Pines Golf Club. With thousands of mature Pine trees lining the greens and fairways of the Desert Pines Golf Club, many golfers refer to it as “The Pinehurst”.

Players of all levels will enjoy that rolling green hills protested by white sand bunkers, and the fact that half of the holes have water hazards around them, making Desert Pines a scenic, affordable place to enjoy golf in Las Vegas.

You can find name brand golf merchandise in the excellent clubhouse at Desert Pines, along with shoe rentals, in case you forgot to bring your own.

You can take a break for the sun and golf at one of the excellent restaurants in the clubhouse or enjoy it on the green from the comfort of your golf cart.

Golf in Las Vegas doesn’t have to be ridiculously expensive to be enjoyable and relaxing, and the Desert Pines Golf club gives you everything you could hope for you in a round of Las Vegas golf at a reasonable price.

The Desert Pines Golf Club has a 20,000 square foot practice center where you can warm up or practice at. The only one of its kind, the automated ball delivery system and climate-controlled atmosphere is something you won’t find at any other Las Vegas Golf course.

You can golf in Las Vegas for as little at $45 when you book your reservations at least 90 days in advance.

Desert Pines Golf Club
3415 E. Bonanza Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: (866) 447-4653

Adams Golf IDEA Tech V3 Hybrid Golf Club

The amazing Idea Tech V3 Hybrid golf club from Adams Golf, continues the engineering excellence for golfers who truly desire the finest materials, design and golf club technology available today!

The Idea Tech V3 Hybrid Golf Club was engineered for players looking for the ultimate technology in club design. With an MSRP of just $199.95, the Idea Tech V3 Hybrid from Adams Golf delivers exceptional performance, feel and looks.

The Idea Tech V3 hybrids feature strategically placed tungsten weighting in the premium stainless steel heads for enhanced forgiveness and spin.

The sleek, easy-to-hit hybrid golf club from Idea Tech features:

· an ultra-thin face for increased ball speed

· V-shaped sole to reduce ground drag and turf interference

· Tungsten weighting at heel and toe lowers the center of gravity and increases the MOI; improves off-center shots

· Unmatched versatility and forgiveness

· Available lofts: 19, 22, 25, 29, 33-degree

The Presidents Cup is a team match play competition that features 24 of the world’s top golfers. 12 golfers are from the United States and 12 are from around the world, but excluding Europe.

The Presidents Cup is held every two years. Since 1996, the Presidents Cup has alternated between United States and various international venues.

Since the event’s inception, nearly $22 million has been raised for charities around the world, including a record-tying $4.2 million in 2009.

This year’s Presidents Cup will be held in the cosmopolitan city of Melbourne. This scenic Australian city is known as the “Events Capital” of Australia.

Melbourne will host the 2011 President’s Cup beginning on November 18. Melbourne is home to more than 100 top golf courses, and has begun an ultimate golf vacation spot.

North America’s Goway Travel specializes in travel to Australia, has put together several travel tour packages to celebrate 2011 President’s Cup.

ON THE GREENS –
To experience The Presidents Cup in style, five- and seven-night packages tailored to golf fans are available from $2,739 double occupancy. Packages for witnessing the tournament firsthand include general admission tickets, a choice of hotels, private transportation to and from The Royal Melbourne Golf Club and entry to an exclusive spectator function at the Crown Towers on November 18.

OFF THE GREENS –
Beyond The Cup, visitors will have a hard time choosing from activities both in and out of the city. To narrow the field, Goway has created a selection of two, three and five-day post-golf touring options. Choose from the iconic rock formations along Victoria’s famed Great Ocean Road or the world’s smallest penguins on parade at Philip Island. Package rates range from $419 to $989, based on twin/double share.

Vacation packages can be booked online at www.thepresidentscuptravel.com or by calling 866-515-2878.

Learn more about the 2011 President’s Cup in Melbourne Australia by visiting: www.PresidentsCup.com

Courtesy of: Garia

The new Garia LSV Concept Car made its debut at the world-renowned, motor show in Geneva Switzerland a year ago.

The Garia LSV Concept Car was a collaboration between Garia and Valmet Automotive, is a street legal version of The Garia Golf Car.

The Garia LSV is a Low Speed Vehicle that is allowed to travel on U.S. public roads that are currently not accessible to regular golf carts or neighborhood electric vehicles.

“An LSV is ideal for shorter trips and recreational purposes, and with The Garia LSV it is possible to drive directly from your home to, for example, the golf course. This is something many people will appreciate, and it makes The Garia LSV a unique product” says Anders Lynge, Creative Director of Garia A/S and designer of The Garia.

The Garia LSV is fitted with street legal safety equipment such as seatbelts, side mirrors and a license plate.

In the EU, The Garia LSV was introduced as non-street legal.

The Garia LSV Concept Car will be presented on the stand of Valmet Automotive alongside three other vehicles, the electrical vehicle THINK City, the hybrid vehicle Fisker Karma, and the electrical concept vehicle EVA. The stand number of Valmet Automotive is 1245, Hall 1.

The Geneva International Motor Show is one of the most attractive motor shows in the world and ranks among the “Top 5 Worldwide” of the most important automobile exhibitions, alongside those in Detroit, Frankfurt, Paris, and Tokyo.

The show is the only one in Europe which takes place every year.

For more information on the LSV and Garia, please visit:
http://garia.dk/garia-lsv/
http://www.garia.com

Speedline F11 Driver – Adams Golf

Although the weather still says it’s winter, we all know that spring is just around the corner.

Avid golfers around the world have cabin fever as the cold winter and snows have kept many off the golf courses.

When you do escape from your winter hibernation, you want to make sure you have the best golf clubs and equipment available.

Take a look at the new Speedline F11 Driver by Adams Golf.

This new game-enhancing club club from Adams Golf, uses the company’s patent-pending Velocity Slot Technology.

Hit great tee shots with the three visible channels that are found on the sole and crown of the driver, thus creating a larger footprint that helps keeps the critical airflow attached throughout your golf swing.

Additional golf club highlights include:

· Fifth generation aerodynamic club

· Reduces drag by 35 percent (see below)

· Increases swing speed

· More forgiving than previous Speedline models

· Sleek design allows golfers to gain as many as 12 yards per drive

The new Speedline F11 Driver by Adams Golf has a MSRP of $299. Read more at Adams Golf

Cascata golf course in Las Vegas is a Rees Jones course owned by Harrah’s.

Cascata opened in 2000 and lives up to its name. “Cascata” means “waterfall” in Italian, and the tee box on the par-3 15th hole will tell you everything you need to know about water on this course.

A 418-foot waterfall flows from the steep mountainside, tumbling over mammoth boulders, cascading into a river that roars through the clubhouse, eventually culminating in a tranquil stream. It’s no wonder Sports Illustrated called Cascata “golf’s hidden treasure.”

The Las Vegas course is consistently ranked high on all the “Best of” courses by golf publications.
The par-72 course that is surrounded by stunning vistas including a 3,600-foot peak at Red Mountain.  The fairways are lush, and there are lakes, and streams. The men’s and ladies’ lounges are equipped sink-side, flat-screen TVs, as well as many other amenities.

The Tuscan like clubhouse is very luxurious, yet unpretentious. The staff is very attentive, and eager to meet your every need. The dining room has wonderful food, and they also have an excellent collection of rare, fine tobaccos and cigars in the lounge’s custom-designed humidor.

Cascata is about a half-hour drive from the Las Vegas Strip. (702) 294-2005
www.harrahs.com/golf/cascata-golf.Greens fee: $500 every day (with a summer “discount” to $350 some days).

The British Open is one of the world’s four major tournaments—with the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, and the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Championship—and the oldest continually run championship in the sport.

The British Open is a unique event and is of great importance to professionals and amateur golfers alike, as well as to fans of golf.

The British Open has been held annually (with a few exceptions) on various courses in Scotland, England, and—on one occasion—Northern Ireland since 1860.

It’s not so easy to locate either, swallowed up in the sand hills and without any signs or gates at the club entrance and sheep grazing next to the road.

The first British Open was played on Oct. 17, 1860, at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. A field of eight professionals played three rounds of Prestwick’s 12-hole course in one day. Willie Park, Sr., won the inaugural tournament and was presented with the Challenge Belt, a silver-buckled leather belt that each champion was to keep until the following Open. The tournament was opened to amateurs in 1861

A Dr. Laidlaw Purves created St. George’s in the late 1880s out of frustration, not to mention necessity, when he couldn’t play Sundays at his own club, Royal Wimbledon in the southwest suburbs of London. Purves tramped along the Kent coast, finally climbed the tower of St. Clement’s Church in Sandwich, pointed out to some god-forsaken spot and fervently declared: “There I will build my course.”

In 1894, St. George’s became the first course in England to hold the Open. That was won by John Henry Taylor.

In the 1904 British Amateur, the champion was 37-year-old Walter Travis, an Australian-born American who was treated rather rudely, officials preventing him from practicing or lodging with other top players, burdening him with a cross-eyed caddy and not even permitting him to change into dry clothes between rounds on a rainy day.

“A reasonable number of fleas is good for a dog,” philosophized Travis, the first foreigner to win the Amateur. “It keeps the dog from forgetting he’s a dog.”

At St. George’s they didn’t forget. Once outside the clubhouse there was a sign, “No Dogs, No Women.”

Liberalization has crept in. Ladies now can play, although not by themselves, but they cannot be members. Somebody call Martha Burk.

Ian Fleming was a member for some 25 years. He used St. George’s as the site of the infamous match between James Bond and Goldfinger, only he thinly disguised it in the book as “St. Mark’s.” The film, however, was made at Stoke Poges, closer to London.

Recognizable in the novel are the classic short sixth hole, the Maiden, altered to the Virgin. And “the face of one of the tallest and deepest bunkers in the United Kingdom.”

That’s 240 yards from the tee on the fourth, rising 60 degrees and standing, or sliding, 30 feet high. It cannot be climbed, as one Reg Gladding verified in the 1979 British Amateur.

Going extra holes against a younger foe, the 54-year-old Gladding, confronted by a headwind, drove into the sand near the crest of the great bunker. He couldn’t risk entering from above, lest he cause a landslide, so Gladding crept up, a few inches at a time. He then addressed the ball, swung — and lost his balance and tumbled back down. Whereupon he immediately conceded the match.

It was at St. George’s where, in the 1922 Open, Walter Hagen protested a ban on professionals entering the clubhouse, hired a limo, parked it in front of the entrance and changed clothes and ate lunch within.

Victorious, Hagen sneered at the size of the winner’s check and gave it to his caddy. James Bond would have loved it.  Source: Oakland Tribune

The British Open is one of the world’s four major tournaments—with the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, and the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Championship—and the oldest continually run championship in the sport.

The British Open is a unique event and is of great importance to professionals and amateur golfers alike, as well as to fans of golf.

The British Open has been held annually (with a few exceptions) on various courses in Scotland, England, and—on one occasion—Northern Ireland since 1860.

It’s not so easy to locate either, swallowed up in the sand hills and without any signs or gates at the club entrance and sheep grazing next to the road.

The first British Open was played on Oct. 17, 1860, at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. A field of eight professionals played three rounds of Prestwick’s 12-hole course in one day. Willie Park, Sr., won the inaugural tournament and was presented with the Challenge Belt, a silver-buckled leather belt that each champion was to keep until the following Open. The tournament was opened to amateurs in 1861

A Dr. Laidlaw Purves created St. George’s in the late 1880s out of frustration, not to mention necessity, when he couldn’t play Sundays at his own club, Royal Wimbledon in the southwest suburbs of London. Purves tramped along the Kent coast, finally climbed the tower of St. Clement’s Church in Sandwich, pointed out to some god-forsaken spot and fervently declared: “There I will build my course.”

In 1894, St. George’s became the first course in England to hold the Open. That was won by John Henry Taylor.

In the 1904 British Amateur, the champion was 37-year-old Walter Travis, an Australian-born American who was treated rather rudely, officials preventing him from practicing or lodging with other top players, burdening him with a cross-eyed caddy and not even permitting him to change into dry clothes between rounds on a rainy day.

“A reasonable number of fleas is good for a dog,” philosophized Travis, the first foreigner to win the Amateur. “It keeps the dog from forgetting he’s a dog.”

At St. George’s they didn’t forget. Once outside the clubhouse there was a sign, “No Dogs, No Women.”

Liberalization has crept in. Ladies now can play, although not by themselves, but they cannot be members. Somebody call Martha Burk.

Ian Fleming was a member for some 25 years. He used St. George’s as the site of the infamous match between James Bond and Goldfinger, only he thinly disguised it in the book as “St. Mark’s.” The film, however, was made at Stoke Poges, closer to London.

Recognizable in the novel are the classic short sixth hole, the Maiden, altered to the Virgin. And “the face of one of the tallest and deepest bunkers in the United Kingdom.”

That’s 240 yards from the tee on the fourth, rising 60 degrees and standing, or sliding, 30 feet high. It cannot be climbed, as one Reg Gladding verified in the 1979 British Amateur.

Going extra holes against a younger foe, the 54-year-old Gladding, confronted by a headwind, drove into the sand near the crest of the great bunker. He couldn’t risk entering from above, lest he cause a landslide, so Gladding crept up, a few inches at a time. He then addressed the ball, swung — and lost his balance and tumbled back down. Whereupon he immediately conceded the match.

It was at St. George’s where, in the 1922 Open, Walter Hagen protested a ban on professionals entering the clubhouse, hired a limo, parked it in front of the entrance and changed clothes and ate lunch within.

Victorious, Hagen sneered at the size of the winner’s check and gave it to his caddy. James Bond would have loved it.  Source: Oakland Tribune