by Traveling Golfer Staff | Oct 25, 2016
Story and Photos by Robert Kaufman Occasionally, it pays to make a wrong turn. At the end of the 15th century, Vasco da Gama, the renowned Portuguese explorer, set sail on a trade mission around the Cape of Good Hope towards India. Had he decided to navigate north,...
by Traveling Golfer Staff | Jul 25, 2016
By Robert Kaufman It was a long drive, but well worth it, from San Francisco to Pronghorn, a premier private golf community located in the high desert of Central Oregon, nothing – I mean, nothing – was more welcoming than the chilled six-pack of local brewed Black...
by Traveling Golfer Staff | Jul 25, 2016
By Robert Kaufman Day after day, a steady stream of cars and buses cruise the two-lane highway through the rural farmland of Northern California’s Capay Valley to reach the unincorporated community of Brooks. This remote getaway, 90 minutes northeast of San Francisco,...
by Traveling Golfer Staff | Jan 20, 2016
by Robert Kaufman Goooood moooorrning, Death Valley! The local time here in the west is 5:30am on the summer solstice, the sun is about to beam its first rays on California’s Panamint Mountains and the current temperature is already a sweltering 94 degrees…and...
by Traveling Golfer Staff | Nov 18, 2013
Article and Photos By: Robert Kaufman During one of my former lifetimes, I journeyed south of the (USA) border to Mexico and, remarkably, navigated my rented VW Bug without GPS to some remote town outside Mexico City. Those days, golf wasn’t even part of my lexicon...
