When I was growing up in the '70s, I worked at my dad's golf club. One of my most vivid memories was of a well-known local businessman throwing his ball out of the sand trap with one hand, while tossing the sand up with the other so it looked like...
"People wanted warm and sunny," says Jana Stern, director, conventions and conference planning, at ReliaStar Life in Minneapolis. When they unfolded the kickoff poster (item 1) announcing the company's 1998 Top Ring contest, "warm and sunny" is...
William Scott Worsham, CMP, has been named director of golf for the Westin Rio Mar Beach Resort & Country Club in Puerto Rico. He will handle the sales and marketing for the resort's two courses: the Tom and George Fazio-designed Ocean Course...
The 860-room Westin New York at Times Square will open in spring 2002, next to E Walk, a 200,000-square-foot entertainment, retail, and restaurant complex opening this spring. Both projects are being developed by Tishman Realty & Construction...
Cancun is probably best known as Mexico's vacationers' paradise, offering a Caribbean experience with Mexican gusto. While the package groups will likely cycle in and out of some hotels forever, some properties are actively courting the meeting...
When digital cameras first came out, they were very expensive, hard to use, and the results were, in layman's terms, terrible. They began to come down in price, and the quality of their images has continued to improve--to the point that they are...
It's a postcard-perfect day, clear and just a little breezy, and you're standing on your own little piece of paradise: the 11th hole on Kapalua's world-renowned Plantation Golf Course. You soak up the awesome scene before you tee off--the gently...
You've got a pile of meetings on your plate and suddenly you're faced with finding space for a management conference only three months out. Then you get a call from a site selection company representative. It's perfect timing. You give the rep the...
Golf course etiquette advice from the experts In Rules of Golf, the first subject addressed is etiquette--before any discussion of rules or definitions. Of course, the United States Golf Association can't define every minute detail of etiquette...