Editor’s Letter

CUP IN SIGHT Farhad on course and in the zone

Farhad Heydari

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ultratravel

Back Doing the Rounds

Autumn might seem like an unusual time to be publishing a golf-themed edition. After all, the days start drawing in, the weather turns cooler, the leaves start to fall and golf balls begin disappearing beneath the carpet of foliage with frequency.

And yet, because we’re all global nomads whose lives are not rooted in one locality or fixed to one time zone (or, for that matter, one hemisphere), it felt like the perfect time to bring together our clutch of curated stories and features in climes both temperate and tropical for your edification.

Hence this issue of , which has the pleasure of previewing the most famous ‘lost’ course in golf-architecture history, a newbie on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius and an unlikely destination in the American Midwest that’s drawing highhandicappers and 36-a-day-types in droves.

Golf’s boundless lure, as I’ve discovered in more than three-and-a-half decades of play, is that it is meditative and it’s in nature, usually played with our nearest and dearest to engender an even more elevated feeling of elation and wellbeing. And whether we do that at home or away, it is always a humbling experience that ensures you are true and honest to thyself.

For those of you who don’t play the great game, I encourage you to take it up with expediency: you won’t regret the ancillary bounty it engenders. But, in the meantime, please enjoy the rest of the articles in this issue, including dispatches from Miami and the latest from the world of Global Hotel Alliance.

Golf is meditative and it’s in nature, usually played with our nearest and nearest to engender an even more elevated feeling of elation and wellbeing