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.