PA LinkStories : Diane DeStefano
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The Great Golf Getaway Sweepstakes and Nemacolin Woodlands helped our family create a family reunion we will never forget. My husband, Mike DeStefano, was the winner of this great package which allowed us to take all of our adult children including 2 grandchildren to Nemacolin Woolands Resort for 3 nights in July 2012. Our family included one daughter and her husband from Fort Bliss Texas, another daughter and her fiance from Fairfax Virginia, our oldest daughter, her husband and 2 boys, and our son and his girlfirend who live locally. The men had 2 fabulous days of golf while the women and children enjoyed the resort, especially the Infinaty Pool at Falling Rock where we stayed. We were all treated live vfisiting royalty from the moment we arrived when we were greeted with champagne, until the time we check out by the staff of Falling Rock ’s five star service which included 24 hour butler service. The icing on the cake was meeting Arnold Palmer 2 days after the trip at his office in Latrobe Country Club. Greg and the guys from PGO met us and Mr. Palmer’s brother, Jerry, gave us the grand tour which concluded with a photo op with the King of golf himslef. Mr. Palmer was very gracious and we will never forget meeting him and our fabulous trip to Nemacolin. It was truly a trip of a lifetime!!
The “RED HOT” Three
Are you looking for some awesome golf courses to try out? Well then, how about this trio: The last three winners of the National Golf Course Owners and PA Golf Course Owners Associations “Course of the Year” award:
2011 PA Golf Course of the Year: Talamore Country Club in Ambler, PA. Yes -this is a private facility, part of the Talamore Golf Group including Applecross Country Club, in Downingtown, PA, and Talamore Resort (Talamore Golf Club) in the famous Sandhills area of North Carolina – that’s PINEHURST to you aficionados! Check out the membership deals, and the fabulous golf getaway packages – you won’t be disappointed. This deal is smokin’ !!
2010 PA Golf Course of the Year: Wyncote Golf Club in Oxford PA. Did you know that Jim Furyk (yeah – that Jim Furyk) – held his Exelon skins game here for a few years? If you like links style golf, with character right out of Scotland, then this is the track for you! Play where Furyk, Love, Garcia, Price, Jansen, Franco, Leonard have played the skins-game!
2009 PA Golf Course of the Year: Honeybrook Golf Club & Birdsfoot Golf Club.The best of east and west in 2009: Honeybrook Golf Club in Honey Brook PA….a great family oriented track with two unique nines guaranteed to hold the interest of every handicap level. Watch the covered Amish buggies go by while you tee off. And don’t be surprised when the Amish kids try and sell you “balls in the egg carton.” Oh, and they have hundreds of balls!
Birdsfoot Golf Club in Freeport, PA has four of the most dynamic par 3’s in western PA. A very scenic course, guaranteed to make you smile. And don’t forget to count the “Bogeymen.” The what – you say? The ‘Bogeymen’ carvings etched into numerous trees on the property. So how many did YOU find?
