Golf

Golf great Phil Mickelson is a new timeshare owner, and it only cost him $3.4 million

I’ve suggested before that you plan your timesharing to put you in the right place for viewing the major (or even the minor) events of the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Perhaps golf legend Phil Mickelson is now taking advice from SellMyTimeshareNOW.

With the 2010 British Open scheduled for St. Andrews, Phil Mickelson has recently spent $3.4 million for the use of nine weeks annually of a penthouse suite with views to the first and eighteenth holes on the famous Old Course. The building, currently in use as a dormitory by St. Andrews University, will soon be renovated as a private club and timeshare.

Let’s see, Mickelson’s timeshare in Scotland (which I think should really be called a fractional) averages out to a little less than $400,000 per week. You may not be able to get a view of the first tee at St. Andrews, but I think you can shop the timeshare resales at SellMyTimeshareNOW and find a great golf timeshare for a whole lot less.

The play’s the thing for Pocono Mountain timeshare owners

The Shawnee Playhouse Theater has been an entertainment staple for vacationers in the Pocono Mountains since 1979. This summer, for the first time since the theater’s 1979 opening season, the playhouse will offer four different shows each week – a theatergoers delight.

Why the change from four plays that run consecutively to four different plays per week?

According to Jerry Durkin, chairman of the informal playhouse board and a cast member in “Same Time, Next Year,” the idea came after seeing the results of an online survey taken by 650 Poconos timeshare owners. The favorite amenity of the vacation property owners is not golf, skiing, or even just enjoying the mountains themselves – it is the Shawnee Playhouse.

This summer, the charming 210-seat theater that claims to have no bad seats in the house, will present: “A Chorus Line,” “Grease,” “Godspell,” “Same Time, Next Year,” and “The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare Abridged.”

Golf in American’s heartland.

When the top senior golfers in the world tee it up this week at Prairie Dunes for the US Senior Open, they may feel as if they are playing a British Isles links-style golf course. In fact, they will be landlocked in southern Kansas. Often compared to the seaside courses of England and Ireland, Prairie Dunes is narrow, rolling, and guaranteed to be windy. It is an amazing championship golf course, with unique design, a fascinating history, and it has been meticulously carved out in the middle of America’s heartland.

In 1935, Emerson Carey, a successful Kansas businessman and avid golfer, decided that the small town of Hutchinson (between Dodge City and Wichita) needed a masterpiece golf course. Carey commissioned the work to course architect Perry Maxwell, the designer behind Southern Hills, Colonial, and the redesigns at Pine Valley and Augusta National.

The original nine holes at Prairie Dunes were hand built, using only horses, mules and plows to clear and shape the greens and fairways. Roots of native Kansas grass were removed by hand, one wheelbarrow load at a time The only mechanized vehicles used in the construction of Prairies Dunes were the Model T and Model A Fords that transported the workers to the site each day.

It took more than two years for the nine holes to be completed, including time out to repair the damage a classic Kansas twister left on the landscape. The second nine at Prairie Dunes was not finished until 1957, when Maxwell’s son took on the task and added the finishing touches – this time with the help of modern technology.

At the US Senior Open this week, you’ll see the ever-blowing Kansas wind redirecting the players’ shots, and the plum thickets, cavernous bunkers and cottonwood groves claiming far too many balls. You can expect the USGA to have “polished” the greens to lightning fast speeds. So sit back and watch Champions Tour legends Fuzzy Zoeller and Gary Player compete, along with Tour newcomers Loren Roberts and Greg Norman. Of course, at SellMyTimeshareNOW, we’ll all be cheering for Bobby Cole – he’ll be wearing our logo as he takes on this challenging course. And if you planned ahead, you’ll be there to see all the golfing greats at play from your Kansas timeshare resale or Kansas timeshare rental.

Lifetime member of the PGA Tour, Bobby Cole, to wear the SMTN logos.

Bobby Cole, PGA Tour veteran, and winner of 22 professional tournaments, will play this week in one of the major events of senior professional golf, the US Senior Open. This year’s tournament, the 27^th US Senior Open, will feature 155 of the world’s top golfers age 50 and over. With tee times starting early on Thursday morning, by Friday afternoon the field will be cut to only the low 60 scorers and those tied at the sixtieth spot. Those who survive to play the weekend will be competing for a purse estimated at $2.8 million, with the winner’s share being nearly a half million dollars.

South African born Bobby Cole will play wearing the SellMyTimeshareNOW logo as he competes for his spot at the top of the leaderboard. Bobby’s worldwide tournament wins include The British Amateur, The South African Open (twice), The South African PGA Championship, The Buick Open, The Seattle Everett Open, and both the team and the individual win in the 1974 World Cup of Golf. He has had 8 top ten finishes in the PGA Championship, the US Open, and the British Open, and finished 3rd in the 1975 British Open, one stroke back of Tom Watson and Jack Newton, who played off for the win. Bobby’s records as the youngest player to make the cut and play the Masters, and the youngest winner of the British Amateur still stand today. With more than 150 cuts made and a tournament win, he is a Lifetime Member of the US PGA Tour.

SellMyTimeshare NOW is proud to be one of Bobby’s sponsors. So go low Bobby; we’re all rooting for you.