April, 2013
For the serious golf fanatic, a single short trip to the links does not a vacation make. These eleven hotels put guests virtually within putting distance of some truly spectacular courses, and the post-play accommodations are the clinchers.
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If you?re going to hit your ball into a sand trap, it might as well be the soft white sand of a secluded palm-shaded beach on a tiny tropical island in the Indian Ocean. The 18-hole course at Beachcomber Dinarobin is called Paradis, a name that could just as easily apply to the all-suite, colonial-style resort.
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What would our list be without an entry from the game?s birthplace? It?s more about long views than long drives at Isle of Eriska?s 9-hole course, that and the love of the game. Fortunately if you finish early, you?ll find yourself in a sixteen-room hotel that looks more like a castle, with plenty of comfy nooks for settling in with a snifter of single malt, another proud local tradition in these parts.
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Imagine a golf resort on the Tuscan coast and a visually arresting, environmentally friendly design hotel may not be the first thing to come to mind ? but that?s just what you?ve got in Argentario, whose rooms face a course that follows the contours of the coastal hills.
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In addition to the Colin Montgomerie championship course that gives the hotel its name, this twenty-one-room boutique surrounded by lakes, gardens and links has a floodlit par-3 for off-hours practice, plus a full complement of training and coaching facilities. And this being Dubai, the small-scale hotel is long on luxury.
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Set on a cliff overlooking the Pacific and flanked by four thousand acres of rolling farmland at the northern edge of the North Island, Kauri Cliffs and its stunning David Harman?designed course feel like they?re at the end of the earth. With guest cottages lining the edge of the course (and facing the Pacific), a game is always close at hand.
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Leisure activities take on their own sort of classic American elegance on the Cape, and the seaside Wequasset Resort is the perfect place to get into the spirit. Guests can watch the sun rise over the ocean from their private deck before hitting the links at top-ranked Cape Cod National.
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A Sofitel hotel in Essaouira, a whitewashed walled city rising dramatically from the rocky Atlantic coast east of Marrakech, is an inviting proposition to begin with. Put it within putting range of a Gary Player?designed golf course and throw in some golf-appropriate Lacoste-styled villas with putting greens of their own, and it?s irresistible.
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Perched on a bluff overlooking the rocky Pacific coastline outside San Diego, Torrey Pines boasts an impossibly scenic setting and a world-class course that has hosted dozens of pro tournaments. If your score doesn?t quite measure up to the pros?, the deeply comfortable Arts and Crafts?style hotel offers plenty of consolation.
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There?s lots of room to spread out at Finca Cortes?n, whether in the positively sprawling contemporary rooms or on the 18-hole par-72 championship course that unfolds across the idyllic Andalucian countryside. A Jack Nicklaus golf academy rounds out the experience, and there are just as many diversions for non-golfers.
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Sometimes Southern California sprawl can be a good thing; the massive Terranea resort occupies a hundred acres in an upscale enclave in southwestern LA, its golf course winding along a peninsula that offers one incredible backdrop after another.
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The 18-hole Nick Faldo golf course at Banyan Tree Lang Co is full of game-stopping views of the sea, and each of the forty-nine villas comes with a water feature of its own in the form of a private pool. Until recently this was just a sleepy little fishing village between Hue and Hoi An, and after Banyan Tree?s sensitive development of the coast it still feels perfectly unspoiled.
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Source: http://magazine.tablethotels.com/en/2013/04/sweet-spot/
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