{"id":181,"date":"2022-03-16T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2022-03-16T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:43:16","slug":"masters-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/blog\/masters-golf-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s officially Spring if you&#8217;re planning your Masters Golf Tournament trip, here&#8217;s an option for traveling to the tournament from southern Georgia and Florida while avoiding the high costs of Augusta."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/course\/georgia_southern_university_golf_course_statesboro\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gas.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" width=\"606\" height=\"403\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Georgia Southern University Golf Course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gas1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesboroga.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Statesboro<\/a> is a city of 35,000 with a lively downtown area featuring\u00a0 shops, restaurants, and lodging. It\u2019s home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiasouthern.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia Southern University<\/a> enrolling 26,000 students in the University System of Georgia. The University capitalized on an opportunity to acquire the shuttered Southern Links Golf Club in town in 2010. Southern Links was designed by Arthur Davis in the mid-1980s. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">His influences and work history in golf course architecture include Robert Trent Jones, Sr, George Cobb, and WIlard Byrd, and ultimately created a partnership with Ron Kirby. Once the University acquired the course, they hired Robert Walker, a longtime <a href=\"http:\/\/arnoldpalmerdesign.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arnold Palmer Course Design <\/a>architect for a course remake in 2013. So, all in all, a rather substantial pedigree of architectural influences on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/course\/georgia_southern_university_golf_course_statesboro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia Southern University Golf Course.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The layout meanders through a residential development with most of the holes bordered by homes. It&#8217;s a parkland style layout with pine trees lining the broad fairways with water in play on the majority of the holes. Maybe the most interesting stretch comes from 7-9 as it winds counterclockwise around a large lake. The course is also well bunkered with 35 contoured sand traps and pot bunkers along the fairways and greens of varying shapes and sizes. It can play as long as 6,850 yards, 73.2\/134, course\/slope ratings with four shorter tees down to 5,304 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statesboro is a city of 35,000 with a lively downtown area featuring\u00a0 shops, restaurants, and lodging. It\u2019s home to Georgia Southern University enrolling 26,000 students in the University System of Georgia. The University capitalized on an opportunity to acquire the shuttered Southern Links Golf Club in town in 2010. Southern Links was designed by Arthur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,18],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s officially Spring if you&#039;re planning your Masters Golf Tournament trip, here&#039;s an option for traveling to the tournament from southern Georgia and Florida while avoiding the high costs of Augusta. - The best public golf courses and golf resorts in the United States<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avoid the high costs of staying and playing golf in Augusta for the Masters Golf Tournament by heading to Statesboro instead\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestpublicgolfcourses.com\/blog\/masters-golf-tournament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s officially Spring if you&#039;re planning your Masters Golf Tournament trip, here&#039;s an option for traveling to the tournament from southern Georgia and Florida while avoiding the high costs of Augusta. - 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