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| | When you visit and play a Prince Edward Island Golf Course there is something especially vibrant about the green of the grass. Some say it is because of the fact the Island is surrounded by water and the reflection coming off it enhances colours, this is why artists like coming to PEI to paint their landscapes. Others say it is something about the composition of the red soil and that the minerals absorbed into grass give it an emerald like appearance. Its probably a combination of all these plus others that are only conjecture, but the reality is that PEI has blossomed with 26 golf courses and is consistently ranked near the top by Score magazine in many of the golf categories that are voted on each year.
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| | by James Deacon
Prince Edward Island, midsummer, early morning. The clerk at the Crowbush pro shop politely repeats the price of a green fee. "It's sixty-five dollars," she says to the southern visitor with PGA WEST on his golf shirt and disbelief on his face. He signs his receipt, says thanks and walks over by one of the clubhouse doors that looks out on the fifteenth hole. It's brilliantly sunny, and there's a shine on the crosshatched cut of the fairway. Beyond the green, past tufted dunes, is the steely, whitecapped Gulf of St. Lawrence. The man stands gazing, then looks down at his receipt. You can see his mind working — sixty-five Canadian dollars will translate to maybe forty-five U.S. when the credit card statement arrives back home. He smiles. It's the height of the summer season, at a course rated among the best places to play in North America. Forty-five bucks.
Its no wonder that resorts and courses on the Island are constantly being rated as "best value". Oh well, if you have to known for something, this isn't bad.
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