Make Gulf Shores your home for Spring Break
Spring Breakers of all ages looking to escape chilly temperatures will find Gulf Shores, Alabama as the perfect destination for an early spring retreat.
Visit golfgulfshores.com today and discover the reasons why the Gulf Shores is a Spring Break favorite, including:
1. Variety: With nine top-caliber golf courses to choose from – all within a 45-minute drive of each other – Gulf Shores offers plenty of different designs and price points. Award-winning, challenging layouts combine with friendly designs, making 36 holes a day more than a possibility.
2. Optimal Weather: While ice is forming on your windshield at home, you can be teeing it up in optimal weather conditions. During the winter and spring months you can expect temperatures to be in the 70s with zero humidity.
3. Non-golf activities: While golf may be the central reason for your trip, there’s plenty more to Gulf Shores than just great courses. Try the new cigar bar, or dive into a local restaurant for coastal fare. The region is well-known for its beaches and fishing, plus there are plenty of locally owned and operated haunts and shopping to be had as well as museums, music and much more.
4. Lodging options galore: With 20,000 units on the 32-mile stretch of beach, you can find the room of your dreams for your group. Well-appointed condos seem to be the popular choice, allowing golf buddies to gather and families to enjoy the incredible views. Individual houses and resort-style and "national-chain" hotels are also available for quick trips.
5. It won’t break the bank! Visit golfgulfshores.com today and get a free customized quote that will fit all of your traveling needs, with rates starting as low as $75 per person, per night with golf included. Gulf Shores is easily accessible by air and within a short drive from New Orleans, Tallahassee and Birmingham.
All Spring Breakers that book a stay-and-play golf package for arrival between March 1 and May 8, 2011 at golfgulfshores.com before Feb. 28 will be automatically entered into the Nike “Head to Toe” contest.
The drawing will take place March 4 and one winner will receive the grand prize – valued at $3,800 – that includes a Nike hat, two golf shirts, two pairs of shorts, one belt, a pair of Air Zoom shoes, a golf glove, two pairs of socks, a set of Nike clubs, a dozen Nike Tour One balls and a Tour golf bag with embroidered name.
For more information – or to sign up for a free subscription to the Golf Gulf Shores monthly e-newsletter – visit: golfgulfshores.com
Course highlights:
Cotton Creek at Craft Farms – An Honours Golf facility and Arnold Palmer Signature Design with generous fairways lined by Southern Hardwoods, undulating greens and a championship test from 7,028 yards.
Cypress Bend at Craft Farms – The sister Honours Golf property to Cotton Creek, the Arnold Palmer Signature Design meanders through cord-grass accented lakes
Glenlakes Golf Club – Scottish-style links course designed by Von Hagge and known for its extensive bunkering and postage-stamp greens.
Kiva Dunes – A “Top 100 Course in America” by Golf Digest, the Jerry Pate design is the only beachfront resort course in Gulf Shores.
Peninsula Golf and Racquet Club – An Honours Golf property, the 27-hole facility offers chilled apples on the tee. The 830-acre park includes 30 lakes and fairways surrounded by Bon Secour Wildlife Preserve.
Rock Creek Golf Club – Also owned by Honours Golf and boasting rolling terrain and fairways lined by pines, the Earl Stone design overlooks freshwater wetlands and the Rock Creek basin.
TimberCreek Golf Club – This 27-hole design was crafted by Earl Stone and feels like an inland Carolina course with fairways lined by loblolly pines, dogwoods and magnolias.
Gulf Shores Golf Club – Formerly known as The Golf Club of the Wharf, this was the Gulf Shores’ first course. Opened it 1960, it was redesigned by Jay and Carter Morrish in 2005.
