Golf in America

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While the exact year golf was introduced into America has never been precisely established, history suggests the game was first played there around the middle of the 18th century. What is certain however, is that today the popularity of golf has spread throughout the length and breadth of the United States.

The sheer size of the country means that golf in America is now played over a wide and exciting diversity of geographical terrain: a landscape that ranges from the spectacular Rocky Mountains of Colorado, to the lush green Everglades of Florida and alongthe endless miles of Carolina's sun-kissed shoreline. Even the seemingly barren and inhospitable deserts of Arizona have been made green and fertile, in order to first establish then sustain the game in what would appear to be a totally alien, if scenically spectacular golfing environment.

While the precise moment that first golf shot was struck on American soil may never be known, what is almost certain is that the historical swing was made somewhere in the Carolinas. Situated along a wide and fertile expanse of America's south eastern seaboard, and with a terrain ideally suited to the creation of golf courses, Carolina has now evolved into America's largest and most popular holiday golf destination.

Here you will find a volume, quality and variety of golf facilities, currently unrivalled anywhere else in the world. In recent years, like many of those early pioneers who first settled this great country, a growing number of golfing visitors are now venturing further inland from the established sunshine golf states of Florida and Carolina.

Travelling west, these modern-day golfing poineers are now discovering and enjoying the unique experience of playing golf on the spectacularly scenic desert and mountain courses, which already make states such a Arizona among the most popular winter golf holiday destinations.

Today, new and spectacular holiday golf destinations are constantly being created in America - in some cases almost overnight - with states such as Alabama investing millions of dollars to create a unique tourist project called the 'Golf Trail'. This consists of ten superb new public golf courses all designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior and built over the last eight years.

America provides the golfing visitor with an almost endless choice of superb locations and diverse environments in which to play. This supplement seeks to turn the spotlight of four of the leading holiday golf regions that we believe highlight the quality and outstanding variety of golf which America offers in such abundance.

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