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PGA National Resort & Spa
Palm Beach Gardens FL.
Package Includes
3 Nights Premium Guest Room Accommodation, Daily Breakfast Buffet, 3 Rounds of Golf PP on-site (including 1 Round each on Champion & Palmer Courses), Shared Carts & Pre-Booked Tee Times, Free Replays on Haig, Squire & Estates Courses, Range Token Daily & 3 Days Mid-size Rental Car with Unlimited Mileage
Pricing starts at $769.00 PP D/O
Valid 4/1 to 5/20/2009
Taxes & S/C Included
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Valid 5/21 to 9/30/2009
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Hilton El Conquistador
Tucson AZ
Package Includes:
3 Nights Standard Accommodation, Daily Breakfast, 2 Rounds of on-site Golf PP, Shared Carts & Pre-Booked Tee Times, Club Storage & 3 Days Mid-size Rental Car with Unlimited Mileage
Travel From 04/01/2009 to 06/30/2009
Pricing from $549.00 PP D/O
Tax & S/C Extra
The Sanctuary Resort
at Kiawah Island SC
Package Includes
3 Nights Accommodation in Dunes-View Room in The Sanctuary, 3 Rounds of Golf PP on-site after 11:00 am, Shared Carts & Pre-Booked Tee Times, Club Storage & 3 Days Mid-size Rental Car with Unlimited Mileage
Pricing starts at $1,199.00 PP D/O
Valid 6/1/ - 8/15/2009
Taxes & S/C Extra
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Welcome to the April issue of my E Newsletter.
This may be the most delayed issue of my Newsletter since I started writing them back in 2000. A lot of things got in my way, including procrastination. Nevertheless, here we go again.
This issue features a review of Amelia Island Plantation. We visited there in March and came away highly impressed. It is being added to my webster as our newest destination. Take a look, and I'm certain you will agree that it is a destination for an upcoming trip for your golf group.
We also have a trip review about golf in Vietnam. My brother Joe visited Vietnam recently, and came back with a report that you should enjoy.
Of course I was busy with my MSU Spartans, as they nearly made it as National Champions again.
But, we are here to talk golf. I hope you are tuning up for the summer season. I will again recommend trips to Chicago and Garland as wonderful destinations for a summer trip. How about you? Where are you planning to go? I'm convinced that in this tight economy, an inexpensive way to have fun and not break the bank is a golf vacation, and you will feel a lot better after your trip.
We are continuing to promote a new program for you called Golf Exclusives Trip Reviews. Please help your fellow golfers learn more about the places you play golf. Please submit a trip review to me like the Vietnam article below, and receive a discount on your next trip.
Contact me with any ideas you have to make my E- Newsletter better for you.
Thanks
Mike Fitzgerald
Golf Exclusives
mike@golfexclusives.com
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 Mike's Bucket List
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If you have read past issues of my E Newsletter you have seen that I am doing great at knocking off the places and things I want to do before I die.
This quarter was no exception. Betty and I were invited at the last minute to go on a river cruise to Paris and Normandy. We spent the last week of March cruising the Seine River. We spent 2 days in Normandy, and visited the beaches where our brave fathers and relatives fought the Germans, and ultimately succeeded in stopping Hitler, and reclaiming France for it's citizens. Our 2 days in Paris were sight seeing at all the popular spots like the Louvre, the Palace of Versailles and the Notre Dame Cathedral. And.... lots of French wine.
I hoped for a another bucket item, a repeat by MSU to win the national championship, but came up one win too few.
How is your bucket list coming? Let me know some of the accomplishments you are conquering.
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Amelia Island Plantation
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My wife Betty and I took our group to Amelia Island Plantation in March, and came away very impressed that it is an ideal location for many of my customers. Why? Because it has 4 golf courses, a full range of housing types to choose from and access to nightlife and dining nearby. I think this fits the needs of the typical Golf Exclusives customer.
The beauty of Amelia Island Plantation is bathed in ocean-topping sunrises each morning and spectacular sunsets over green salt marshes each evening. Throughout the day, the natural beauty of its 1,350-acre all inclusive beach resort calls out to everyone. Attractive accommodations and superior activities for family vacations, golfers and tennis players, premier meeting facilities, and Florida's most beautiful natural surroundings welcome every visitor to Amelia Island Plantation.
The beauty extends to four championship golf courses, each one an Audubon International certified sanctuary; to their renowned spa and shopping village; and to their well appointed meeting space. Visit the year 'round Nature Center with fun and educational nature tours or tour the resort on a Segway. Sportsmen and kids alike enjoy fishing around the resort or on charters off shore. So relax, get away, and reconnect with family, friends, and the natural beauty of Amelia Island Plantation.
Named "Silver Medal Golf Resort" by Golf Magazine, Amelia Island Plantation boasts 72 championship holes.It also has been named as one of only 10 "Green Golf Resorts" for its environmental committment in the care of its courses.
Amelia Links, designed by Pete Dye and Bobby Weed, is a 36-hole configuration including two signature courses, Oak Marsh and Ocean Links.
Ocean Links has 5 holes along the ocean and concludes with a par three whose green is strategically placed in the waters of Red Maple Lake. The course winds through six miles of the natural sand dunes and seaside terrain that make Amelia Island so special. It can be said that this is as much a nature tour as it is a round of golf. The course yardage of 6,300 yards is somewhat deceiving since small greens, narrow fairways and prevailing winds make the course play much longer. At par 70, these 18 holes provide a challenge to golfers of all levels. Named by Golf for Women as one of the "50 Best Courses for Women", its proximity to the ocean and the ever changing sea breeze provide the golfer with exhilarating views and intriguing play.
The Oak Marsh Golf Course is one of the truly classic Pete Dye designed golf courses in the world. The course, built in 1972 shortly after the completion of the Harbour Town Golf Links at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is noted for its tight fairways and small greens, meandering along serpentine salt marsh creeks and through the moss draped heritage oaks for which Amelia Island is famous.
Long Point, a Tom Fazio's creation, is an 18-hole layout designed distinctively among primal marshlands and the towering sand dunes of the Atlantic. Long Point is the Club Member's primary course; however, resort guests may reserve tee times 24 hours in advance.
Amelia River, (formerly Royal Amelia) is open to the public and located just three miles from the resort's main entrance. it offers a Tom Jackson- designed 18-hole layout, sculpted around a forest of majestic live oaks, sabal palms, pines and wax myrtles.
A skilled culinary team of chefs, an inventive cuisine and a variety of dining venues have earned Amelia Island Plantation a reputation for excellence in dining.
The Ocean Grill at the Amelia Inn offers the finest chops and the most recent trends in food and food preparation. Enjoy organic specialties, plus local and seasonal produce and seafood favorites.
For a casual dining experience, guests can dine outside under the covered porch at Marche Burette, all the while enjoying the Florida sunshine. After a pleasant lunch, head inside to Cooper's Homemade Ice Cream & Desserts, for a delectable treat, sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
If you are headed toward the beach, stop poolside for a quick bite at the Beach Club Grill. If the golf course is your destination, be sure to check out the Golf Shop Restaurant. If seafood is your choice, enjoy the charmingly casual The Verandah with the day's freshest local seafood.
I think you can see that Amelia Island Plantation should be on your list for your next golf vacation.
Please contact mike@golfexclusives.com to help you with the details.
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Trip Review - Vietnam
By Joe Fitzgerald
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My brother Joe recently returned from a trip to Vietnam and Hong Kong. He was stationed there in the Vietnam war, and went back to see how things have changed. And changed they have. He is not a golfer, but know my love for the game, so he visited the Sofitel Dalat Palace Golf Club and came back impressed that Vietnam has lots of golf to offer those who thrive on playing in foreign lands
Today, it's the top-rated course in Vietnam - for its classic design chops, for the incredible rise and fall of its terrain and for its flawless bentgrass conditions. Indeed, Dalat Palace is one of the few bentgrass layouts in SE Asia, thanks to Dalat's cooler, 1,500m-high climate.
The course itself, measuring 7,009 yards (6,409 meters) from the tips, is an uninterrupted string of inventive, demanding golf holes. Its twists and undulations are breathtaking and the landscaped outlying areas are a flower maven's delight, with bougainvillea, red salvia, impatiens, mimosa and hydrangeas.
The course was abandoned after WWII and revived in 1959. In early 1966, several months before he beat Arnold Palmer to win the U.S. Open at San Francisco's Olympic Club, Billy Casper played the course on a tour of Vietnam organized by the U.S. State Department. The course was abandoned again in 1975, after the reunification of Vietnam, and initiated its second comeback in 1993 with a multi-million dollar restoration and expansion by a group of American investors.
Through four consecutive surveys (2001, 2003, 2005 & 2007), Golf Digest has hailed the Dalat Palace GC as the top course in Vietnam in its world renown Planet Golf Survey. Asian Golf Monthly, in its 2007 survey, recognized the course as one of the top-10 in all Asia. The club is also a member of the Finest Golf Clubs of The World (London).
Please contact me at: mike@golfexclusives.com. to learn more about golf tours to Vietnam.
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