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PEI
Golf
Say, where exactly
is PEI?
By Bob Enzel
 The
temperature outside is 20 degrees and
there is 3 inches of icy-snow on the ground.
I’ve finished shoveling and chopping a
path out and now I’m sitting around with
a spiked hot chocolate thinking about
warm weather in general and golf in particular.
A
month has passed and I’m back home after
a week of golf in Palm Springs and I’m
ready to go again—perhaps someplace not
so well known and definitely not so expensive.
As if out of a comic strip the light bulb
in my head lights up. Aha!
I say to myself there is only one place
in the world where the U.S.
dollar
is worth over a dollar and that place
is Canada.
I
poke through my brochures on Canada—most
of which are on skiing—and PEI stares
out at me.
The
PEI brochure tells me to click on wwwgolfpei.ca
and voila! I know where my next
golf trip is going to be. It’s going
to be on a beautiful island--Prince Edward
Island just north of Maine.
From
my little bit of research I find out that
there are 30 golf courses on this island
and that 8 of them are “world class championship
courses”--too good for me maybe--but a
top-of-the-line course has never stopped
me from trying. As I read on, up
pops a couple of familiar names, Tom Watson
and Jack Nicklaus. My memory finally
clicks in and I recall that in 2006 the
Dundarave Golf Course hosted the “Legends
of Golf,” so now I click on www.legendsofgolfpei.com/
to double check my memory. I now
know for certain that if PEI was good
enough for Tom and Jack, it’s certainly
good enough for me.
 I
definitely won’t describe all 30 golf
courses to you, but I will tell you that
the PEI booklet that I’m reading shows
a variety of 1 thru 4 night lodging/golf
packages priced per night including lodging,
meals and golf for what I paid per round
of golf in Palm Springs. For example,
this particular package I’m now looking
at offers 2 nights accommodations and
2 rounds of golf on the “Dundarave” Golf
Course for $223.00 in Canadian currency…and
that’s less than two hundred dollars U.S.
I’ll leave it here for
now and see you up in PEI after all the
ice has melted.
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