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SPORTS & OUTDOORS on course SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
story by Tommy Snell
photos courtesy of Fallen Oak, The Preserve, The Oaks, Bridges and Grand Bear
SThe Coast’s buffet of outstanding, affordable golf awaits you
oft, gentle breezes off the Gulf of Mexico. Golf’s greatest players/architects have blue-printed their Palmer, Nicklaus and Fazio. Golfers of all imagination adjacent to the world’s longest man-made shapes, sizes and abilities know they’re in beach.
for a treat when “Welcome Y’all” greets their Palmer, Nicklaus, Fazio, McCumber, Pate and Love firmly arrival and “Next up” calls them to the tee on planted their artistry in Mississippi by designing The
the fabulous Mississippi Gulf Coast. A buffet of Bridges, Grand Bear, Fallen Oak, Windance, The Preserve
outstanding, affordable golf awaits visitors.
Courses that border the Gulf of Mexico’s Mississippi Sound have climbed Golf Digest, Golf Magazine and Golf
Week’s leaderboard of public places to play. Golfcoast. com’s motto is “Play all day and night.” Gulfcoast.org recommends that “you get plannin’ and we’ll see you when you get here.” Mshla.com invites visitors to “play on the water” and “play on the greens.” Fun for everyone!
Historic events. Celebrated courses. Edward Barq, Sr. invented root beer in Biloxi, MS, the Roosevelt’s Teddy Bear can be traced to the Magnolia State, and rumor has it that Donald Ross designed Gulfport’s Great Southern Golf Club on a napkin.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast’s “62 miles of scenic shoreline” has provided a canvas of vast treasure for golf’s grandest architects, and they didn’t waste the opportunity.
and Shell Landing respectively, offering golfers of all levels inspiring and picturesque courses on which to share hole- in-one memories.
They’ve been here, and they keep coming back. Tom Lehman and Jim Furyk won Web.com events at Windance Country Club. Hickory Hill in Gautier and The Oaks in Pass Christian have hosted the Web.com Tour, while golf’s greatest names on The Champions Tour “wouldn’t miss” returning to Fallen Oak for the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic each spring.
Retirees who fell in love with South Mississippi call Diamondhead home, where two championship golf courses welcome golfers of all ages. Elvis loved to visit Gulf Hills, and so do thousands of golfers every year. From local favorites Sunkist CC, Pascagoula CC and Pass Christian Isles, the affordable and playable Dogwood Hills, Bayou
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