PGA Tour star Rickie Fowler is playing the new Cobra King SpeedZone Xtreme driver this year. Like Fowler, the driver is bright and colorful. Certainly those aesthetics help when appealing particularly to average players, but Fowler, a winner of five Tour events and one of the game’s more popular players, looks for more than, well, […]
Category: Personalities
Farmer’s Table: Centerpiece of North Palm Beach CC dining scene
Mitchell Robbins will tell that he always has believed that dining at Farmer’s Table restaurant, which he co-owns with Joey Giannuzzi in Boca Raton, is a country club experience – just without all the country club amenities. “More like a community,’’ is how Robbins describes the popular health-centric eatery at the Wyndham Hotel Boca Raton. […]
Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa names Neall Bailey as Executive Chef
Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, a Forbes Five-Star oceanfront property, has named Neall Bailey as Executive Chef. www.eaupalmbeach.com A native of Vancouver, Canada, Bailey has worked in a number of Five-Star properties around the world, including the Willard in Washington, DC, where he was executive chef, and the Hotel Eden au Lac in Switzerland. […]
Larger Than Life: Kapalua’s Plantation Course Shows Off Enhancements
As with many golf courses created by the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the Plantation Course at Kapalua on Maui is larger than life. Its wide fairways and severe elevation changes – as much as 500 feet – combined with the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean and the islands of Lanai and […]
Chef Laurent Tourondel’s vision comes to life at Scusi Trattoria in Palm Beach Gardens
How to judge the early success of Scusi Trattoria, celebrity chef Laurent Tourondel’s new Italian restaurant in Palm Beach Gardens? “The vision has come to life, for sure,’’ said Travis Wadsworth, general manager of the eatery that opened this past November. “The ambience, the décor… there is nothing else like it in Laurent’s restaurant family.’’ […]
Chef David Schroeder raising the bar with Brick & Barrel gastropub in Lake Park, Fla.
Seated at a table inside his Brick & Barrel gastropub, Chef David Schroeder smiled when he discussed the growth of West Palm Beach’s Lake Park neighborhood. “There is fresh energy in this area,’’ Schroeder said. “I’m kind of old… and I’ve only been here two years.’’ Understand that two years is a lifetime in the […]
Gainbridge LPGA hosting Women’s Leadership Summit on Jan. 21
The inaugural Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio, Jan. 20-26, will feature the Women’s Leadership Summit presented by Versant Health on Jan. 21. The half-day summit will highlight female leaders from a variety of industries, creating a space to empower women, strengthen skills, build networks and inspire lasting change. https://www.gainbridgelpga.com/wls/ The summit, hosted at Boca Rio […]
Medterra CBD raising the bar in the CBD industry
Here’s some terrific products for golfers to add to their holiday shopping lists – or shopping lists any time of the year. Medterra CBD is one of the country’s fastest-growing companies and is helping raise the standards of the CBD industry industry as new and unregulated products flood the market. CBD (cannabidiol) is the nonpsychoactive […]
Pebble Beach Company, Tiger Woods partnering on new short course
Two of the bigger names in golf – Pebble Beach Company and Tiger Woods – are partnering on a new short course on the former site of Peter Hay Golf Course at Pebble Beach. pebblebeach.com “Pebble Beach has always been a special place to me,” said Woods, who won the 2000 U.S. Open by a […]
Boca Bacchanal returning with four events in early 2020
The 18th annual Boca Bacchanal of 2020 – hosted by the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum – will be held over the course of four events on Jan. 21, Feb. 20, March 6, and March 7, 2020. The event celebrates the best in food and wine. Guests may purchase tickets, to any of the […]