Cybergolf Reno
Tahoe's newest golf course, Timilick Tahoe, opened this past weekend. Nestled between North Star and Squaw Valley ski resorts, the 7,000-yard co-design by John Harbottle and Johnny Miller is the centerpiece of a 475-acre gated community off Highway 267 near Truckee, Calif. Full Story |
by Blaine Newnham
The FAM is history, a week of media types playing golf around Lake Tahoe finished. They wanted us to get the feel of the diversity of desert golf one day and mountain golf the next, of the misplaced urban energy during a stop in the old railroad town of Truckee and the blessed lack of same in the Mohawk Valley of California's Plumas County. Full Story |
by Blaine Newnham
What do you talk about on a golf media trip? Golf, of course. During the six-day trip around Lake Tahoe, we talked about the guy who paid $100 to get his golf bag from Denver to Reno on United Airlines. He'll pay the same amount to get it back. As he understood it, there would be no charge if it were the only bag he checked. Presuming it didn't weigh more than 50 pounds.
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by Blaine Newnham
So this Fam trip, or media tour, isn't just about playing one great golf course after another. We had a choice one afternoon whether we wanted to play Coyote Moon, in the mountains near Lake Tahoe, or do something to improve your game. Coyote Moon is spectacular. My golf game isn't.
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by Blaine Newnham
Back to blogging after a round at Edgewood Tahoe, the well-known and nearly stately course in Stateline, Nev., home of the annual summer celebrity tournament that makes everyone who plays the game appreciate that they've got a better swing than Charles Barkley.
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by Blaine Newnham
Here you are, on a golf media trip to Reno and Lake Tahoe, and the first two courses you visit have the indelible hand of John Harbottle, the architect from Tacoma, Wash., who seems to understand better than anyone the concept of translating links golf to the American desert - even though he grew up with rain and trees.
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