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September 10, 2009
A Drop-Dead "Drool-Shoe" Course! |
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Define "drool-shoe."
Sure. It's a course where you wipe drool off your shoes because:
• Scenery's so stunning that your mouth is agape and drool drips on your shoes
• You're dumbfounded and drooling after your high-altitude rips
That's the Stanley Thompson 18 at The Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course. Thompson designed this Canadian course (opened in 1928) that's not tricked up. This is simply golf, with lush, open fairways and fast, inviting greens blended into the natural beauty of the Bow River, big granite walls and grand mountain vistas. Course highlights:
- High end hasn't gone to its head. This public course's set-up allows you to walk and not slow play. Also, resort tees make rounds enjoyable for the entire family.
- The par-3 Devil's Cauldron (#4, pictured) is full of drop-down derring-do and is often mentioned in the world's top 18 holes.
- The tee shot at 15 is elevated and over water. You swear you've hit it into trees on the facing mountain. After all, don't balls travel 10 percent farther at altitude? The ball flight is awe-frickin'-some!
- In September, elk gather to rut. Play over without penalty if your ball hits an elk.
BTW, the Fairmont Banff Springs is part of 135 scintillating holes in the Canadian Rockies golf-and-resort lifestyle destination. Check them out and sign up for the e-newsletter; you may win a trip for four to these drool-shoe courses. |
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