Great Deals Available on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play

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Great Deals Available on Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play

ORLANDO, Fla., (May 7, 2009) -- With the economy lagging and daily stresses rising, avid golfers can find relief on some of the nation's best public-access courses. Ranked by state in Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play annual, all of these extraordinary courses are open to the public and many are offering exceptional prices in addition to alwaysamazing golf experiences.

"As someone who grew up playing munis and daily-fee tracks in and around the New York City area, it's an honor for me to work with Golfweek in presenting this annual list of Best Courses You Can Play," said Bradley S. Klein, national director of Golfweek's Best Courses rating program. "These layouts run the gamut, from fancy resorts like Pebble Beach and Pinehurst to really accessible, down-to-earth places like Wild Horse in Gothenburg, Neb., and Bully Pulpit in Medora, N.D."

In addition to listing each state's premier public-access courses, Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play features articles by Klein and Golfweek contributor Evan Rothman. Klein's article highlights the beauty of public-access courses while Rothman's piece outlines some of the country's greatest golf deals.

To create the Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play list, a nationwide team of more than 475 evaluators rated public layouts on the basis of ten criteria, including routing, conditioning, variety and memorability of holes. The number of courses per state varies on this list based on the course supply, population and level of play in each state.

"Since our first state-by-state listing in 2002, the popularity of Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play list has grown tremendously," said Terry Olson, vice president and publisher of Golfweek. "Serious golfers trust and utilize this list as a resource for identifying the best public courses."

Visit Top100.GolfweeksBest/ to view the complete list of Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play.

About Golfweek's Best Ratings Since 1997, Golfweek's team nationwide of course raters, which currently boasts more than 475 evaluators, have scoured the landscape, surveyed more than 500 Classic and 1,700 Modern nominated courses, and rendered their judgment on the basis of 10 standards of evaluation. Collectively, they have turned in more than

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45,000 votes. Golfweek's Best Courses lists include: New Courses, Modern Courses, Classic Courses, Casino Courses, Residential Courses, Resort Courses, Courses of the Caribbean and Mexico, Courses You Can Play, Municipal Courses and Tour Courses You Can Play. The criteria for evaluating the golf courses may be found at Top100.GolfweeksBest/. About Golfweek Founded in 1975, Golfweek is the most authentic, authoritative and independent name in golf. Reaching more than 1.3 million readers each week, the magazine delivers the most complete news and information about the game, the people and the lifestyle to golf's most important audience. Golfweek is part of Turnstile Publishing Company, one of the nation's leading publishing companies specializing in high-end publications for active and affluent audiences. Turnstile Publishing Company is the parent corporation of such publications as Art Calendar, TurfNet Monthly, The Seminole Voice and The Winter Park/Maitland Observer, as well as the Web sites , , , , , and , which features golf's first online television network, GolfweekTV. Founded in 1990, Turnstile Publishing Company is headquartered in Orlando, Fla., and is also affiliated with Skyhorse Publishing.

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