The Best Golf and Lodging in Mountain, Plains and Seaside Regions Highlights September Issue
SHORT HILLS, N.J. (August 29, 2007) — Golf Odyssey: The Insider’s Guide to Sophisticated Golf Travel, today announced the publication of its September 2007 issue, which contains expert advice on the best places to play and stay on golf vacations to North Dakota, central Vermont, and Ocean City, Md.
Golf Odyssey, the only golf travel publication in the world that conducts its on-site inspections anonymously and accepts no advertising, discounts or free "FAM" trips from the properties it reviews, opens its September issue with a golf expedition to western North Dakota. Quietly hosting three world-class golf courses with jaw-dropping scenery and adventuresome remoteness, Golf Odyssey’s editors were moved to call the area, "the Bandon Dunes of the Badlands." These courses, however, can be played for a third of the price of those at Oregon’s famed resort.
Also in the September issue, Golf Odyssey takes its readers to central Vermont, where, along with the two best golf courses to play, its editors uncovered a boutique resort that proved to be the finest they had ever experienced in 16 years of traveling and golfing the globe. Readers are treated to a detailed assessment of all of this charming inn’s amenities and the secret to securing a coveted reservation there.
Rounding out these mountain and plains golf vacations is a critical look at the popular seashore resort, Ocean City, Md., and its rumored renaissance from honky-tonk town to grand golf getaway. In addition to a roadmap to the most worthwhile off-course experiences, Golf Odyssey’s editors recommend two golf layouts that should be played twice before any others are played first.
"Golf Odyssey is advice, not just information," said David Baum, Golf Odyssey’s publisher and editor-in-chief. "Our September issue, like all of our monthly issues, contains those priceless pieces of advice that can mean the difference between a ho-hum trip and a memorable, golf vacation of a lifetime."
Next month, Golf Odyssey takes its readers to Kissimmee, Fla, to evaluate the three, big-name-architect golf courses making names for themselves at Reunion Resort; to France, where Evian is more than just the famous bottled water; and to Maine, to see if Clive Clark’s Belgrade Lakes Golf Club is worthy of its many accolades.
For more information about Golf Odyssey, or to arrange an interview with golf vacation expert David Baum, call 800-550-2286 or visit: www.golfodyssey.com.
About Golf Odyssey
Golf Odyssey, LLC publishes a monthly, subscription-only newsletter and companion website. Now in its 16th year, Golf Odyssey: The Insider’s Guide to Sophisticated Golf Travel, is dedicated to the publication of honest and unbiased evaluations of great golf destinations in the United States and abroad. Golf Odyssey travels anonymously, pays 100 percent of its own expenses, and does not accept advertising from golf courses, resorts or restaurants in order to serve its subscribers with objective information and discriminating advice. Subscribers to Golf Odyssey include Fortune 500 CEOs, members of 95 of the top-100 golf clubs in America, professional athletes and celebrities, and world-famous golf course architects. To subscribe to Golf Odyssey and/or give it as a gift, please visit www.golfodyssey.com.
About Golf Vacation Insider
Golf Vacation Insider, LLC publishes free travel tips via e-mail, a website, and books on golf travel. Managing editor and golf travel veteran Craig Better works closely with the editors of Golf Odyssey to provide free, insider travel tips to subscribers three times per week. The first two titles from Golf Vacation Insider’s line of golf travel guidebooks (Planning the Ultimate Golf Vacation and Planning the Ultimate Bandon Dunes Golf Vacation) were released in 2006. For a free subscription to Golf Vacation Insider, please visit www.golfvacationinsider.com.
Contact:
Denise Brite
Media Relations Coordinator
Golf Odyssey & Golf Vacation Insider
denise@golfodyssey.com
973-564-6223