Hershey,
Pennsylvania
has been
home to
the
famous
Hershey's
chocolates
for over
a
century.
It also
draws
raves as
a golf
destination
though,
routinely
getting
rated
one of
the best
family
golf
vacation
spots by
leading
golf
magazines.
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It
doesn't
take
long to
figure
out what
he-man
thumping
golfers
are
thought
of at
Lake
Placid
Club's
Mountain
Course.
Long
hitters
are
going to
feel
hemmed
in on
this
96-year-old,
6,294-yard
design.
Which is
just
what
makes it
a woman
golfer's
best
friend.
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Philadelphia
carries
a
reputation
of being
a fat,
cheese
steak
guzzling
East
Coast
City.
Only now
it has
tons of
hot
restaurants
and
nightclubs.
It's a
great
scene
for
discovering
underrated
golf,
and
Baltimore
golf
courses
like
Pete
Dye's
Bulle
Rock are
only a
quick
drive
away.
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Returned
to
tip-top
conditioning
by new
ownership
and
management,
Broad
Run
Golfer's
Club
offers
serene
rural
scenes
and a
convention-busting
Rees
Jones
design
only 45
minutes
from
Philadelphia's
Center
City.
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Those
who've
played
true
links
golf in
Scotland
or
Ireland
could be
in for a
shock at
the Lake
Placid
Club's
Links
Course.
It
doesn't
give you
much
roll on
shots,
making
it play
even
longer
than its
6,936
yards.
Attack
the
Links
Course
like a
traditional
links
course
and
you'll
be in
for a
very
long
day.
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Philadelphia
golf
marketers
treat
Cobb's
Creek
Golf
Club's
Olde
Course
as the
city's
showcase
muni,
and it
should
be. But
the
landmark
track
and its
ingenious
old-school
layout
by
Merion
designer
Hugh
Wilson
are let
down by
poor
course
conditions.
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More
than a
century
after
its
original
opening,
the
Bedford
Springs
Golf
Club has
reopened
after a
historic
and
comprehensive
"retro-rebuild"
by Forse
Design,
Inc. The
club has
long
been a
staple
of golf
in
Pennsylvania
and had
gone
more
than 80
years
without
a major
renovation,
William
K.
Wolfrum
writes.
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Tell a
local
that
you're
going to
play
Whiteface
Club
Golf
Course
and
they'll
let you
know how
much
better
shape
it's in
these
days.
This
doesn't
just
come
from one
or two
people
either.
Everyone
you talk
to
echoes
the same
theme.
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The host
of the
1980
"Miracle
On Ice"
Winter
Olympics,
Lake
Placid
is
bidding
to
become a
summer
golf
destination.
Where
else can
you
bobsled
in the
middle
of a
heat
wave and
play one
of a
half-dozen
century-old
golf
courses
in the
same
day?
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Every
state
park
should
have its
own golf
course -
one as
good as
the
track at
Saratoga
Spa
State
Park in
Saratoga
Springs,
N.Y.
This
state
park in
the
late-summer
horse-racing
paradise
of
Saratoga
Springs
does not
just
have a
golf
course.
It has a
7,141-yard
golf
course
that
runs
through
towering
pine
trees
and
takes
precedence
over
nearly
everything
else.
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