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Jan 6, 2025 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
Saki BabaIt is hard to believe what Baba has already achieved by the age of 19. After securing the U.S. Women’s Amateur title in 2022, the Tokyo-born golfer turned pro in 2023. Following a strong season on the Epson Tour in 2024 (16 cuts made from 18 starts), she has now qualified for the LPGA Tour.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
T here was a time when luxury travel meant flying first class and staying in opulent hotels. And while that’s certainly still part of the equation, the concept of luxury travel has evolved significantly over the years. Today, the bespoke nature of a journey is what dictates luxury. Since its founding in 2006, Kensington has had its finger on the pulse of what luxury travel means and encapsulates.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
Winter may not formally begin until December 21st, but in Kohler, Wisconsin, the season’s customary weather often arrives early. By the middle of October, in fact, you might catch sights of salmon running upstream on a pleasantly warm and sun-splashed day; or you could watch as storms cover the landscape with the year’s first blanket of snow. It should come as no surprise that the region is well-equipped to embrace Old Man Winter whenever he happens to gust into town.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
Less than one in twenty American golfers who played in 2023 belong to a private club, and an even smaller percentage hold multiple memberships. Being able to choose between playing at two or more private clubs is a rarefied luxury, but there is a small group of golfers taking this “exclusive variety” concept to the extreme.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
Far from a mirage, Sensei Porcupine Creek Resort is a luxury wellness and golf retreat offering guests the opportunity to move, nourish, and rest throughout its secluded 230 acres—a desert property surrounded by lush trees, red flowers, striking cacti, and unique art installations.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
In recent years, global headlines about golf in St. Lucia have focused on the development of a dramatic course designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. To the outside world, it seemed that this private layout—emphasis on private—was the island’s only golf course.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
In recent years, global headlines about golf in St. Lucia have focused on the development of a dramatic course designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. To the outside world, it seemed that this private layout—emphasis on private—was the island’s only golf course.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
If your ideal Las Vegas adventure is equal parts green grass and green felt, base yourself at an MGM Rewards property, as guests of the various resorts, which include Bellagio and Aria, are eligible for rounds at the uber-exclusive Shadow Creek. The Tom Fazio masterpiece opened in 1990 at a reported cost of $47 million—a price that the designer once attributed to “total site manipulation.” In other words, all of the rolling hills, the contours, and the mounding that you’ll see is man-made.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
Home Articles A Celebratory Pour Worthy of the Season Home Articles A Celebratory Pour Worthy of the Season For much of the 20th century, American consumers who had an affinity for Scotch typically reached for a bottle of blended whisky. Only in the last two or three decades have single malts risen in prominence on this side of the pond.These days, single malts are incredibly popular, but it might come as a surprise that blended Scotch whisky is still king—79 percent of all Scotch sold in the...
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kingdom.golf | Matt Halnan
A fter a long, dry September day in the middle of the Cabernet Sauvignon harvest, Maayan Koschitzky, a man making some of the most elegant and ageable new reds in California, admitted, “I didn’t know a lot about American wine.” Twenty years ago, the son of a peach and pomegranate farmer was just starting out in the industry, a mechanical engineer interning in the vineyards of a winery in Israel’s Judean Hills.
