NC Outer Banks Offers a Premier 2017 Golfcation

It’s another one of those perfect days along the Outer Banks shores of North Carolina.

Snow-white puffs of clouds – urged along by gentle Atlantic Ocean breezes – drift across the deep blue Carolina skies. From several vantages along the Outer Banks (OBX), golfers can bask in the glow of a myriad of different-colored carpets. This unforgettable panorama of beauty and color may seem more like something out of Travel Channel documentary as its producers slip away to some far off corner of the world. But in fact, for those organizing a trip for family, friends or even hardcore golf buddies, such a picture can be found right here in the Middle Atlantic. Courses with intriguing names like The Currituck Club, Nags Head Golf Links and Kilmarlic provide various twists off this theme. And the hospitality the region is known for goes hand in hand with the overall sense of golf paradise.

Road trips, golf getaways, buddy excursions — no matter what you call these sporting endeavors they almost always include a couple of important ingredients: Good friends and good fun. Golf trips are built around the entire experience, particularly the bonding with pals and loved ones; playing as much golf as a body can handle followed by a hearty meal and a few cold beverages while watching sports on TV; staying up late playing poker or hanging out on the porch; then getting up at the crack of dawn to do it all again.

There may be no better location for an affordable and memorable Golf Getaway than North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where seashore isolationism allowed the Wright brothers to create manned flight and the same privacy enabled wild Spanish mustang horses to form a unique habitat on similar sandy soil.  “Away from it all” is how you’ll feel when you tee it up on any one of the outstanding golf courses located in the OBX. But don’t think for a moment that this coastal destination is bereft of things to do once your group’s round of golf is complete. When not standing on a green or tee box looking out across the ocean or a sound, you’ll be busy living the good life in quaint villages and towns with funky names like Currituck, Corolla, Coinjock, Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, Duck and Kitty Hawk.

Here are 5 “must plays” on your next OBX golf getaway:

A famous expression was coined long ago at Cahoon’s Grocery and Variety Store in Nags Head. It goes, “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it.” This OBX motto could easily be applied to its golf. From true barrier island links courses to modern parkland marvels located inland, the region is so chock full of variety, you truly don’t have to go anywhere else. The challenges are as spectacular as the coastal views they possess.

The Currituck Club, routed by Rees Jones, rolls across diverse coastal terrain with sound-side views distinctly its own on the northern end of the barrier island. The grandest design along the coast is also the area’s most demanding, especially when the wind kicks up.

http://www.clubcorp.com/Clubs/The-Currituck-Club

Located on the mainland five minutes from the Wright Brothers Bridge amidst 605 beautiful acres of maritime forest, Kilmarlic Golf Club is nestled along the sprawling wetlands of the Albemarle Sound. As home to the 2004 and 2009 North Carolina Opens, Kilmarlic also hosted the Old Dominion/Outer Banks collegiate championship the past four falls.

http://www.kilmarlicgolfclub.com

Nags Head Golf Links plays hard along the inner waterway on the southern end, where coastal winds and rugged shoreline combine, in true Scottish fashion, to create a unique golfing experience each and every day. The front and back nine closing holes along the sound are particularly spectacular. Nags Head’s bar and restaurant, not surprisingly, is also home to the most dramatic sunsets in town, with views not only across the immediate Roanoke Sound, but towards three other sounds (Albemarle, Croatan and Pamlico) that flow into it from the north, west and south as well.

http://www.clubcorp.com/Clubs/Nags-Head-Golf-Links

The OBX golf experience is enhanced by two other courses on the mainland but certainly worth leaving the island to go play. The Pointe Golf Club and The Carolina Club are a pair of the most immaculately manicured and impeccably conditioned golf courses around. After all, the sister layouts are owned and operated by a man who also runs one of the region’s major turf grass companies, and both courses were built on what had previously been fertile farm land.

http://www.thepointegolfclub.com/

http://www.thecarolinaclub.com/

Outer Banks 2016 golf package information is available at www.PlayOBXGolf.com or 800-916-6244.