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Travel Deals of the Week
Celebrate the grand opening — and one reopening — of these courses.
By Tara Gravel May 14, 2008
- This summer, be a golf pioneer and forge your way to some of the game's newest offerings. Below are deals at three highly-rated new courses, and one at a Donald Ross classic that recently got a serious facelift (don't worry, it's more Sophia Loren than Joan Rivers).
- Riverside Casino & Golf Resort Hotel, Riverside, IA
- Stay & Play Package
Details: One weekday night in a king or double queen room, a round of golf and a breakfast buffet each morning for two people.
What You'll Love: The sleek, metropolitan feel of this new casino contrasts nicely with the pastoral Rees-Jones-designed Blue Top Ridge course (left), which rolls through gentle hills and past the Iowa River.
Price: $269.95 per night on weekdays (an additional $60 for a Friday or Saturday night stay).
Contact: 877-677-3456, riversidecasinoandresort.com
Valid: Good through the golf season, but not valid on special event weekends.
- Cougar Canyon Golf Resort, Trinidad, CO
- Stay & Play Package
Details: One night of accommodations at either the nearby La Quinta Inn & Suites or Quality Inn, one round, free range balls, and a commemorative yardage book.
What you'll love: You have a chance to play this unique Jack-Nicklaus-designed high-desert track before the crowds arrive (a 117-room luxury resort is scheduled to open in December). The course winds its way through Cougar Canyon with views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, and as a tribute to the nearby, historic mining town of Trinidad, Nicklaus filled the 40 bunkers here with black sand-reminiscent of his highly-rated Old Works course in Anaconda, Montana.
Price: $99 per person, based on double occupancy.
Contact: 719-422-7015, cougarcanyonliving.com/main/golf
Valid: Through September, 2008
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- Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, PA
- Resort's Unlimited Golf Package
Details: Luxurious accommodations, unlimited golf with cart and unlimited use of the practice facility.
What You'll Love: This Allegheny Mountain course, which was first designed by Spencer Oldham in 1895 and redesigned by both A.W. Tillinghast and Donald Ross, has some of the country's oldest holes. But it was in serious need of TLC until a renovation restored its glory last year. The resort got a $170 million facelift, too.
Price: Starting at $199 per person, per night, not including nightly $20 resort fee and tax.
Contact: 866-623-8176, bedfordspringsresort.com.
Valid: Sunday through Thursday nights through July 2, 2008
- Butterfield Trail Golf Club, El Paso, Texas
- Stay & Play Packages
Details: One night's stay in one of four participating hotels (see below), one round at Butterfield Trail Golf Club, a 25 percent discount on selected items in the golf shop, and unlimited use of the practice range.
What You'll Love: If you're flying into El Paso airport, this Tom Fazio-designed stunner is just a 3-iron away. Fazio used the area's natural sandhills to define this rollicking course, which has big elevation changes. Each of the holes is named after a different stop on the 2,800-mile Butterfield Overland Mail Company route from Missouri to San Francisco, part of which passed through the property.
Price: At the Radisson El Paso Airport, rates start at $141.20 per person Friday and Saturday, and $206.20 per person Sunday through Thursday, full breakfast and social hour included (two cocktails). At the Residence Inn-Marriott-El Paso rates start at $159 per person on weekdays and $184 per person on weekends. At the Hawthorn Inn & Suites El Paso rates start at $149 per person, Monday through Sunday, breakfast buffet included. At the Microtel Inns & Suites-El Paso, rates range from $115 to $139 per person. Taxes aren't included at any of the hotels.
Contact: (915) 772-1031, butterfieldtrailgolf.com
Valid: Ongoing
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