Add Kentucky to the states that now have a golf trail.
Bob Baldassari ended a long run in Florida golf to join The Woodford Club, which is near Lexington, Ky. That led to his joining forces with Randy Clay, a co-owner of the Woodford Club, in establishing the Kentucky Golf Trail. Baldassari’s wife Pam is also part of the trail’s ownership team.
“We moved (to Kentucky) and saw an opportunity,’’ said Baldassari. “We came to re-imagine golf there.’’
The Trail is up and running with six courses in the Lexington-Lousville area. The Woodford Club, in Versailles, will celebrate its 60th anniversary in April and will host a Legends Tour June 7-8.
Other courses on the trail website are Greenbrier, in Lexington; Bardstown, in Bardstrown; Gibson Bay, in Richmond; Cherry Blossom, in Georgetown; and GlenOaks, in Prospect. Clay expects the number of courses to grow to 10-12 before this golf season is in full swing.
“We want to showcase the best in Kentucky golf,’’ said Clay.
The Kentucky Golf Tour will be unique, in that the packages offered include bourbon tastings; distillery, winery, brewery and horse farm tours; and stops at Churchill Downs and Keeneland race tracks.
To learn more check out info@kygolftrail.com or call Pam Baldassari at 859-682-6001.
Reports of the Kentucky Golf Trail’s creation surfaced at January’s PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. As massive as the PGA Merchandise Show is, the annual extravaganza hasn’t always been a bevy of information when it comes to travel destinations. That changed at this year’s 72nd annual staging.
Here’s a smattering of the news coming out of other American destinations:
FOREST DUNES, Roscommon, Mich. – Long one of Michigan’s best destinations, Forest Dunes already has three layouts open to the public – the initial namesake layout designed by Tom Weiskopf in 2002 and the cutting-edge Loop, a Tom Doak creation that is a reversible course. In other words, The Loop functions as two distinct courses.
The northern Michigan facility then underwent an ownership change. Now Rich Mack, who owns the resort with business partner Tom Sunnarborg, has announced that Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner will creating SkyFall – a new private club that will also allow limited resort guest play.
With elevation changes of up to 70 feet, SkyFall will weave through 300 acres of forest land adjacent to the current Forest Dunes public play courses. More
