Sports Equipment

Mountain High Snow Resort Wrightwood, Calif. http://www.mthigh.com The resort recently acquired Ski Sunrise next door. The addition of the formerly shuttered resort means additional and presumably less-crowded slopes. Mountain High is providing extra...

It's always 1971 on the deck at Canyon Lodge. Oh sure, you can order a 21st century Red Bull, but you're still going to be listening to the Allman Brothers playing "Statesboro Blues." The Mammoth Scenic Loop has nothing to do with being scenic. It's...

Advice for how to get ready for the upcoming golf season Global director of R&D for Wilson Golf, Bob Thurman, recently shared his advice on how Chicagoans can get ready for the upcoming golf season. His first recommendation was to start with properly-...

Slices, hooks and grounders often send the average golfer zigzagging from tee to pin. But what if one club could eliminate some of those frustrating swings? A club that was easy to control, like a shorter iron, but delivered the distance of a fairway...

Here are do's and don't's of beginner golf, courtesy of Northwestern men's golf coach Pat Goss, four-time Big Ten Coach of the Year. DO ... learn how to hit the ball into the air properly. "Don't try to lift or scoop the ball into the air. Hit the...

Last week I hit one of those dream shots off the tee. It came with all the right accompaniments: the heart-soaring "thwack," the sight of a small globe sailing across a clear sky, the satisfying drop onto a trim, green carpet of grass. And then, the...

The first thing Sue Wilson learned was confidence. After years of unsolicited advice from friends, family and helpful (but often annoying) strangers, the recreational golfer from Mokena felt beaten down whenever she played golf. "It was overwhelming,"...

So you've learned the basics, but deep down you know you're still a hack. Before you sign up for the annual office golf outing, play some of the area's nine-hole courses to build experience. Here is what we found when we played a few in the area. EASY...

Brad Wilson sees them every time he stops by Knoch Knolls Park in Naperville to check on things. He sees people, young and old, male and female, novice and expert. They troll across the sprawling, wooded 215-acre park with discs in hand, anxious to fling...

Replica golf courses are all the rage now, but many in the course-design industry, a group previously not noted for extreme sensitivity toward the needs of the average golfer, are wondering if this is a good thing. Does your garden-variety hacker...

Get in a car and drive on any street or freeway in Orange County and, often, within 15 minutes a golf course will come into view. Newport-Mesa features seven 18-hole courses at six golf facilities (Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club has two 18-hole layouts)....

Tiny billows tickled our noses as our sleigh of 24 diners pulled away to the sound of bells on the horses' tack on what would be a truly memorable way to warm up to a wintry northern Michigan night. We were taking Garland Resort's Zhivago Night, a magical...