Golf Course Pictures – Golf Calendars…the perfect gift.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
There are many 2011 calendars to choose from. I was asked to review the latest batch, and here is the link to a fine squidoo lens where you'll find my thoughts plus many other great links:

http://www.squidoo.com/golf-course-calendars

Golf Course Pictures – Lambrecht golf course photographer.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Professional golf course photographer Larry Lambrecht travels the world on assignment. There are many in his business, but few take as good a picture as him. His pictures will make you want to play many of the courses (Pebble photo):

https://www.golfstock.net/page.asp?id=1&name=Home

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Course Pictures – Top Vegas area Courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
If the casinos leave you with any cash, Joe Passov from Golf.com has listed the best desert courses you should play:

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,1870713,00.html

Golf Course Pictures – Top Disney area Courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Heading down to Disney this week – what better time to review the best courses in town with Joe Passov from Golf.com featuring the Waldorf Astorai Golf Club:

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,1883153,00.html

Golf Course Pictures – Pinehurst’s 8 Courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
What golf destination can boast as many great course in one spot than Pinehurst? You have to include #2, but which others will make your list?:

http://www.pinehurst.com/nc-golf-courses.php

Golf Course Pictures – Top 10 Winter Golf Courses.

Golf.com, has another slide show with link-outs to a Top-10 list of courses to give you a winter fix. Beautiful photos of classic courses (Doral photo by Time):

http://www.golf.com/golf/gallery/article/0,28242,1943555-1,00.html

Golf Course Pictures – 2010 Premier golf sites.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
According to Golf.com, these twelve US golf destinations have been voted the best in 2010. Here’s a wonderful slide show with link-outs to each course. Great to look at and the perfect wish-list (photo by Time):

http://www.golf.com/golf/gallery/article/0,28242,1958613-1,00.html

Golf Course Pictures – The #1 US Golf Resort.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Golf Magazine ranks it #1 Destination Golf resort, for the hotel as well as Whistling Straits. I must get there and so must you. In 2012, the LPGA visits Kohler’s Blackwolf Run for the US Women’s Open. Here’s a preview:

http://destinationkohler.com/golf/bwr/bwr_index.html

Golf Course Pictures – All-You-Can-Golf at Shattuck NH.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
When in New Hampshire, head over to Jaffrey Mon-Fri for their $60 golf w.cart + range balls + lunch all day long or until you drop. It’s rating is 73.5, Slope 153 and hazards everywhere:

http://www.sterlinggolf.com/shattuck/specials.htm

Golf Course Pictures – Play TPC Louisiana Free.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
The way to play this TPC course for Free is to volunteer for the Zurich Classic in New Orleans, April 25 – May 1, 2011. Save the link below and check there regularly to download the Volunteer Registration Application:

http://zurichgolfclassic.com/content/view/16/30/

http://www.tpc.com/TPCLouisiana.aspx

Golf Course Pictures – Golf’s Holy Grail, the Ace.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
After Jonathan Byrd won the PGA’s Las Vegas event with a Hole-In-1, and last week sisters Erica and Lindsey Bensch both had aces in the same round, I wondered if the odds of an Ace had improved. According to David Owen at GolfDigest, our chances of getting down in one shot still beat out winning the Lottery:

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/gd200509-david-owen-aces

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/jonathan-byrd-s-playoff-hole-in-one-wins-pga-tour-event-in-las-vegas.html

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=5788958

Golf Course Pictures – New Ireland Links Golf Competition.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
A new amateur handicap 2-person team golf competition has been launched over Doonbeg, Lahinch & Ballybunion, 3 premier courses in the West of Ireland. To take place May 23-25, 2011, its on my wish list:

http://greatirishlinkschallenge.com/

Golf Course Pictures – America’s #1 golf destination is in AZ?

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Joe Passov at Golf.com argues for the Phoenix/Scottsdale area as the best town to visit with your buddies:

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,2030370,00.html?cid=feed-courses_travel--2030370

Golf Course Pictures – Top Golf Commercials.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Sam Weinman at Golf Digest has 22 funny golf commercials lined up on YouTube clips. Even if you’ve seen some before, they’ll brighten your day:

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2010-11/slideshow-funny-tv-commercials

Golf Course Pictures – Top 10 College courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
GolfChannel.com polled over 160 college golf coaches to come up with this list of the best…most are public, so you and I can play them and certainly build a road-trip around one or two (also here’s a link to the best in the southeast ACC):

http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-travel-insider/top-10-college-golf-courses-33572/

http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-travel-insider/best-golf-courses-in-the-acc-40211/

Golf Course Pictures – Dye’s Kampen Course for $1.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
While the green fee in West Lafayette, at the Purdue Boilermaker course, is $50, Pete Dye knocked his regular design fee down from $1.5million to just $1. We can all play the 7500 yard championship track when in Indiana:

http://www.purduegolf.com/

Golf Course Pictures – Pacific Grove…the poor-man’s Pebble.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
For $40 weekdays you can play golf with similar Pacific Ocean views to Pebble Beach. Just 5 ½ miles along the coast, Golf Magazine ranks it in the Top 50 Bargains. And see the other Monterey Peninsula courses Joe Passov suggests:

http://pggolflinks.com/

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,1663765-0,00.html

 

Golf Course Pictures – Cheap Hawaiian muni-golf.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
For under $30 you can rent clubs, a hand cart and play 9-holes of spectacular-ocean-view (the views are spectacular, not the golf), just 40 miles from Honolulu (a high shot taken by the prevailing winds may land on next-door’s $195/round Turtle Bay Resort). This is not a destination course, but if you find yourself in Hawaii anyway, well why not?:

http://www.honolulu.gov/des/golf/kahuku.htm

http://www.pasturegolf.com/courses/kahaku.htm

Golf Course Pictures – San Diego’s best courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Matt Ginella at Golf Digest talks Coronado and Torrey Pines for when you hit the San Diego area. They’re on my wish list, how about yours:

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/golf-travel/buddies/2010-10/away-game-san-diego

Golf Course Pictures – America’s Most Important Courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Ron Whitten over at GolfDigest has created a list with links to websites of those courses he thinks have had the most influence on Golf in America. I happen to love the history of golf (everywhere), and I hope you do too:

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2010-11/most-important-courses-methodology

Golf Course Pictures – Over 350 Champion Photo Galleries.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
The folks over at WorldlGolf have had their writers go out and both play and photograph courses all over the world so that you can better plan your buddy-trip or retirement wish-list. There are some great lookers here:

http://www.worldgolf.com/photo-galleries/

Golf Course Pictures – N.Irish links – the neglected corner.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Brandon Tucker of TravelGolf crossed the Irish Channel from Wales and played the famous and less-so links courses along the Northern Ireland coast. I have played them and agree with his conclusions:

http://www.travelgolf.com/articles/must-play-golf-courses-in-northern-ireland-11734.htm

http://www.royalcountydown.org/

http://www.royalportrushgolfclub.com/

Golf Course Pictures – Royal Porthcawl, King of the Welsh Links.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Brandon Tucker of TravelGolf Network visited Cardiff in Wales, just up the road from this year’s Ryder Cup site, and discovered the devilish pot bunkers of Royal Porthcawl:

http://www.golfeurope.com/course-reviews/royal-porthcawl-golf-club-in-wales-11735.htm

http://www.royalporthcawl.com/pages.php/visitor_homepage.html

Golf Course Pictures – Bandon Dunes best pure golf.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Geoff Russell of GolfWorld played 8 rounds in 4 days at the Bandon Dunes courses and considers it the greatest pure golf experience in the world:

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/blogs/wheres-matty-g/2010/10/trip-report-just-back-from-ban.html

 http://www.bandondunesgolf.com/

Golf Course Pictures – 2010 Best Overseas course.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Ron Whitten of GolfDigest visited and ranked overseas courses (what an assignment!!) and came up with this Inverness beauty:

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2010-12/best-new-courses

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2010-12/photos-best-new-courses#slide=1

http://www.castlestuartgolf.com/

Golf Course Pictures – TPC San Antonio’s two resort courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Matt Ginella of GolfDigest reviews the two courses at TPC San Antonio – the Resort and Palmer. Check out their special-price packages to stay and play:

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/golf-travel/buddies/2010-11/away-game-san-antonio

http://www.tpcsanantonio.com/

Golf Course Pictures – PGA National’s five resort courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Mike Bailey of TravelGolf reviews the five courses at PGA’s Florida National. They also have some special-price packages to play right now:

http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-travel-insider/review-pga-national-resort-spa-40114/

http://www.pgaresort.com/yourplay_packages.aspx#fall

Golf Course Pictures – Who’s the best?

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Michael Clemmer claims to be one of the best – I think he’s got a point (photo by Clemmer of 15^th at Fallen Oak, MS):

http://www.bestgolfcoursephotographer.com/photos/Spring%20and%20Summer/6/80/

 

 

 

Golf Course Pictures – Flickriver golf photos.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Flickriver is a web-based Flickr viewer that allows viewing hundreds of user photos quickly and easily, in one seamless 'river of photos' (aka “infinite scroll”) view – take a look here:

http://www.flickriver.com/groups/19701634@N00/pool/interesting/

Golf Course Pictures – breast cancer awareness month.

Alexis Thompson wears a pair of pink golf shoes to observe Breast Cancer Awareness Month during the second round of the Navistar LPGA Classic at the Senator Course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail on October 8, 2010 in Prattville, Alabama. (Darren Carroll/Getty Images). Talking of the RTJ Golf Trail, read this GolfDigest article on north Alabama hometown hero Stewart Cink:

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-tours-news/2010-11/golf-my-town-1101

Golf Course Pictures – golf the Hall of fame courses.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Billed as a “Man’s Weekend” golfing down at St. Augustine FLA, Jeff Ritter doesn’t quite mirror “The Hangover” but says there’s lots of trouble to get into. Its on my “wish-list”, how about yours?:

http://blogs.golf.com/trips/2010/10/mans-weekend-the-world-golf-hall-of-fame.html

Golf Course Pictures – play the 2010 Ryder Cup course.

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Joe Passov of golf.com calls the Welsh site of this year’s Ryder Cup “straight out of West Palm Beach”. You too can now play the green course…just bring your rain gear, its south Wales where the rain doesn’t only stay on the plain:

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,2022312,00.html?cid=feed-courses_travel--2022312

Golf Course Pictures – Myrtle Beach golf…just one man’s view

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Joe Passov of golf.com calls MB the Costco of golf for its unparalleled variety and unbeatable value. Talking about MB courses will give any group sufficient fodder for a whole day’s discussion, what with beauty being subjective. See if you agree with Joe:

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,2025024,00.html?cid=feed-courses_travel--2025024

Golf Course Pictures – the Tasmanian Devil course

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
If you build it, they will come. And I’m not talking about the Chicago Black Sox. Architect Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have built a Bandon Dunes-like classic links course in northeast Tasmania (island off the south of Australia) called The Lost Farm: It jumped right onto my wish list with a bullet!:

http://www.golf.com/golf/courses_travel/article/0,28136,2024928,00.html?cid=feed-courses_travel--2024928

Golf Course Pictures – The Masters

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
Did you know that sunny Myrtle Beach hosts its own “Masters” on a course that, from the tips, stretches 180 yards (not a misprint!). This year drew ABC’s “the Bachelor” out of his pad to tee it up against the big boys:

http://www2.scnow.com/sports/2010/oct/15/masters-mini-golf-draws-many-people-a-40076-vi-54742/

Golf Course Pictures – turn yours into cash

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
...it’s unclear if Kevin Murray actually attended this year’s tight Ryder Cup match in Wales, but it is crystal that he offers up the classic way to turn golf course pictures into a revenue stream:

http://www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com/blog/?tag=/europe

Golf Course Pictures – pro photographer turns “golf-pro”

Hi golfers, Nick here from www.GolfCoursePictures.co.
...here’s a man after my own heart…a golfer and photographer, who makes his living as a landscape photographer. Guy Havell recently decided to add golf course photography to his portfolio as he relates here (and there are some wonderful “canvasses” he has in new Zealand…I am mighty jealous):

http://www.guyhavell.com/blog/2010/10/a-new-direction-an-exciting-new-challenge/

Golf Course Pictures – shoot the tree, of course

Hi golfers, Nick here from Golf Course Pictures...I play on parkland-style courses mostly, its what I grew up on, and you know all those trees ten to overpower the course in a photo shot. So why not try featuring the oldest/biggest/gnarliest (you get the picture) on the course and allow the hole to play “supporting role”? Here’s how Michael Denker did it at Valderrama:

http://golfcoursephoto.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/valderrama/

Golf Course Pictures – do you share your course with animals?

Hi golfers, Nick here...I once played Tidewater here in MB and shared the 17^th fairway with an alligator (I didn’t have my camera with me!! But it would have been good for golf course pictures). Take a look at these WorldGolf blogs by Brandon Tucker – read about the Royal North Devon and some of Ireland’s great courses and start a whole new photo group of wildlife you meet on the course:

http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2007/03/19/the_ireland_trip_awards

http://www.golfeurope.com/course-reviews/england/royal-north-devon-golf-club-westward-ho-england-6949.htm

Golf Course Pictures – is this what Cyprus really looks like?

Hi gang, Nick here from 81°Myrtle Beach...I’ve loaded golf course pictures from dour Scotland before, and when I was a wee lad I even lived in Nicosia, but I do not remember Cyprus looking nearly as green as this! Check out Kevin Murray’s fresh photos of Nick Faldo’s new Elea course:

 http://www.kevinmurraygolfphotography.com/blog/?tag=/golf+course+design&page=2

Golf Course Pictures – is your web-bio socially acceptable?

Hi gang, Nick here...when I post golf course pictures to my blog, Facebook (or any social site), aggressiveness could be unfortunate – here some good tips from photoshelter for your “About” page:

http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/10/whats-in-your-about-page.html

Golf Course Pictures - eco-friendly courses

Hi gang, Nick here...when I take golf course pictures the last thing that occurs to me is the environmental friendliness of the course I'm playing, I just assume they all rank poorly in that department. But not so! Gleneagles, a course I last played 3 years ago, got a mention in this article:

http://www.golfenvironment.org/about/answers/landscape-ecosystems/landscape-function/

Golf Course Pictures - 1000 at Conde Nast!!

Here's a site I stumbled on which I wouldn't have expected to see some golf course pictures. Check them out for inspiration:

http://www.condenaststore.com/bin/venda?ex=co_wizr-locayta&template=wz_locayta&pageno=1&perpage=20&collate=ivtype%3Acat%3Apdxtlayout%3Apdxtstyle%3Apdxtmagazine%3Apdxtdecade%3Apdxtpublicationdate%3Apdxtartist%3Apdxtedition%3Apdxtpublished%3Apdxtperson%3Apdxtdesigner%3Apdxtauthor%3Apdxtlocation%3Apdxtcity%3Apdxtstate%3Apdxtcountry&refine_sort_alph=&fieldrtype=type&termtextrtype=invt&typertype=exact&fieldcatrestrict=xancestorid&termtextcatrestrict=shop&typecatrestrict=exact&typekeywordsearch=keyword&termtextkeywordsearch=golf&searchsubmit.x=47&searchsubmit.y=8

Cheerio,

Nick Johnson

Golf Course Pictures - under Golf Park's friday night lights

Imagine shooting golf course pictures at night without a flash (though you may need to color-correct)?

I saw the following article about Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood LI on Oct 6 at http://www.golfonlongisland.com/teebox/2010/10/index.html

"After all, nobody plays nine holes at a "golf park."  Floodlights on a golf course?  Leave that to sports like football and baseball.  Yet there they are, light stanchions for -- gasp! -- night golf.  And sticklers for details might scoff at Heartland's relatively benign recreations of classic par-3s from around the world, some from as close by as Shinnecock Hills and the National Golf Links.

For the rest of us though, Heartland is simply a good time with a few irons, a wedge and a putter.  It is a 1,220-yard par-3 course in the strangest of settings -- a rectangular plot in an industrial area near the Deer Park train station, surrounded by office buildings, the Long Island Railroad and the park's hulking driving range.   Nowhere else can you take aim at Royal Troon's famous "Postage Stamp" green as the wailing 4:51 from Penn Station barrels through the background. 

LAYOUT:
Despite all the concrete and machinery that surrounds it, Heartland actually does have the feel of a park.  Mounding, mainly a visual element that stays out of play, rolls through the property.  Some holes play uphill, others downhill; some greens are hidden from view, others, like Heartland's opener, feature dramatic slopes that can be seen from the tee.  Modeled after A.W. Tillinghast's tenth at Winged Foot West, #1 has a pear-shaped green with a low front half and a raised back tier. 

The second is a 136-yard shout-out to the 13th at Merion.  Use enough club to fly over a large bunker while taking care to stay short of the three traps behind the flat green.  Augusta National's signature 12th -- the par-3 at Amen Corner -- is recreated at Heartland #3, where a small pond stands in for Rae's Creek.  The wide, shallow green with a bunker in front and two more long makes for a tiny target from 155 yards away.  C.B. Macdonald's famous "Redan" at the National Golf Links of America serves as the model for Heartland's fourth, an uphill shot through a narrow chute of trees to a diagonal green tilted away from the player.

The 140-yard fifth plays downhill to a small, square green.  A pot bunker hides between the putting surface and a larger trap to the right.  It's back up the hill at #6, a tip of the cap to #11 at Shinnecock Hills.  Missing left here leaves a testy bunker shot or an awkward recovery from the side of a mound.

Still fresh in the minds of 2010 U.S. Open spectators, Pebble Beach's famous drop-shot seventh is the inspiration for Heartland's seventh (pictured right).  An office building substitutes for the mighty Pacific.  Still, the 107-yarder will challenge your wedges.  After the 126-yard eighth (the "Postage Stamp" at Royal Troon), it's on to a much less daunting version of the famed "Island Green" at TPC Sawgrass.  Here, you can miss anywhere but left and still manage to stay dry.

CONDITIONS:
Tee boxes are a bit chewed up -- not surprising for a par-3 course that appeals to all types of players.  But the greens are well-kept, soft and fair.  Fairways are maintained and rough is left to grow a little long.  If you miss the greens, expect to do some real work with your wedge.  Some bunkers have high faces that call for nicely lofted recoveries.  Trees and rolling mounds enhance the park setting and successfully block out much of the surrounding asphalt.

A mini-golf course and a driving range featuring automatic-tee stalls make up the rest of the park.  Popular night golf under the lights makes Heartland unique for another reason -- it's the rare course where twilight golf is more expensive than daytime golf.  A rock formation overlooking the front end of the course is straight out of Angels Stadium.

HOLE(S) TO REMEMBER:
Amen Corner and Sawgrass get all the TV time, but to golf aficionados, the real star is the classic "redan" hole -- often imitated around the world, but rarely duplicated.  Sitting diagonally and tilted away from the golfer, the green on most redans is difficult to hold with anything but an excellent tee shot.  Heartland's fourth lacks the penal characteristics of C.B. Macdonald's work at the National Golf Links, but it still requires a highly lofted iron that flies over a short-left trap and lands softly on the putting surface. 

Still, many will remember the shot they pulled off at the "island" green (pictured left) long after they've buried an uphill putt on a redan.

AREA(S) TO AVOID:
Shots missed badly to the right of the redan green may find their way out of bounds and into any of the abandoned freight cars rotting next to the course.  Train and railroad gurus probably won't mind, and may even relish the opportunity to dig around for their ball.  Others will just find the area a little creepy."

Cheerio,

Nick Johnson

Golf Course Pictures - Tips for the large group photo

How do you take a group shot for your golf course pictures so it doesn’t look tired? Here’s an article by a soccer photographer, and I think his tips translate well to golf:

http://www.lensextender.com/2010/10/how-to-take-the-team-photo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LensExtender+%28Lens+Extender%29

Cheerio,

Nick Johnson

Gofl Course Pictures - MB Golf courses "Smarting"

There's no better time than Fall 2010 to be getting golf course pictures in Myrtle Beach. The 100+ course in the Myrtle Beach area this year are competing for fewer visiting golfers than ever. And you know that means lower greens fees. Here's the stats to back it up:

http://www.mbga.com/articles/myrtle-beach-golf-industry-continues-to-struggle/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheerio,

Nick Johnson

Golf course pictures - printer as achilles heel

So you've catured a great golf course picture. Now you want to sell it. Some customers will want to pay you for your digital image (watch for a later post on this) and others want a print. Finding the truth online is a minefield...I've done some of the legwork for you and here's a trust-worthy site you should check out if you're in the market for a dedicated photo printer:

http://bestphotoprinter.org/

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I think this golf course picture , which shows how the Country Club at Castle Pines is nestled between nature and an old town which sprawls over yonder rolling hills. It is not the usual course pic. I hope you like it as much as I do (and check out that list in the lower right frame of what the grounds crew do from Aerification to Yardage Markers!!):

 http://cccpgcm.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-time-for-everything.html

Cheerio,

Nick Johnson