The folks at the Florida Space Coast pointed out that 50 years ago this Saturday, on February 6, 1971, Alan Shepard, commander of NASA’s Apollo 14 mission played golf on the moon. The club he used was a six-iron head attached to a collapsible aluminum tool designed to scoop up lunar dust samples. Shepard snuck […]
It’s not new, but it’s definitely cool. And we hope that the pre-security putting green at Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport stays put. The putting green is in Main Terminal on the second floor outside of Sam Snead’s Tavern. For a few bucks the tavern will rent you a club and supply a souvenir ball. […]
It’s been tried in the past at airports in the U.S. and elsewhere. Now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is giving virtual golf another try. This time it may just work! Scheduled to open mid-March, the airport’s “golf lifestyle facility” will offer golfing activities and a lounge, along with retail, food and beverage. A joint project […]
The folks at the Florida Space Coast pointed out that 50 years ago this Saturday, on February 6, 1971, Alan Shepard, commander of NASA’s Apollo 14 mission played golf on the moon. The club he used was a six-iron head attached to a collapsible aluminum tool designed to scoop up lunar dust samples. Shepard snuck […]
It’s not new, but it’s definitely cool. And we hope that the pre-security putting green at Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport stays put. The putting green is in Main Terminal on the second floor outside of Sam Snead’s Tavern. For a few bucks the tavern will rent you a club and supply a souvenir ball. […]
It’s been tried in the past at airports in the U.S. and elsewhere. Now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is giving virtual golf another try. This time it may just work! Scheduled to open mid-March, the airport’s “golf lifestyle facility” will offer golfing activities and a lounge, along with retail, food and beverage. A joint project […]
The National Golf Foundation estimates that are more than 27 million golfers in the United States. A lot of those golfers are also frequent travelers. So having a golf course at or near an airport is a nice convenience. It also makes economic sense: airports are usually ringed by plenty of intentionally-open land and golf […]