DAKOTA DUNES, SD - Rebuilding and fixing is the goal at the Dakota Dunes Golf Course, one of many places nearly destroyed when the Missouri River flooded this summer.

As the Dunes tries to get the course back, it's a balancing act between golf and flood protection.

When the Dakota Dunes Country Club opened back up in September, there were a few things missing on that Arnold Palmer designed course, like holes 17 and 18.

"This isn't something you see every day and it is a bit of a unique challenge," says Brandon Johnson, a Senior Design Architect with the Arnold Palmer Design Company.

The crowds are long gone. The "Celtic Tiger" is dead, replaced by an Irish economy that is wobbling. The world is a different place just a few years removed from the 2006 Ryder Cup Matches at The K Club.

Yet one thing remains constant: the timeless elegance of the Kildare Hotel, Spa & Country Club. The K Club, as it is known around the world, remains an Irish jewel on 550 acres just 30 minutes outside Dublin. Ireland's "AA Hotel of the Year" for 2011 has lost none of its rock-star appeal. It even hosted The Golf Channel's "Big Break" series in 2011.

The only difference, perhaps, is that staying and playing here is becoming more accessible to the masses. A "Ryder Cup Experience" package cost 220 Euros (roughly $300) this summer, including a round on both the Palmer and the Smurfit courses and a night's stay (per double occupancy).

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Even two years later, the renovation of the Bay Hill Club & Lodge continues to be praised and cherished.

Critics have blasted changes at some other high-profile tournament courses -- notably Dubsdread at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club near Chicago and the West Course at the Wentworth Club in England -- but not Bay Hill.

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Arnold Palmer may have learned the game from his father in Latrobe, Pa., but Minnesota is where he built a course named for the man. Opened in 1999, the Deacon's Lodge course is the most demanding and popular layout at the Grand View Lodge resort, two hours north of Minneapolis. Built on 499 secluded acres, the almost completely wooded layout feels more like a private club. Extremely wide fairways lead to larger than average greens, and waste bunkers are prevalent throughout. Swirling winds provide another obstacle, as do a handful of wilderness lakes that some tee shots are required to carry.

SAN ANTONIO -- Although the Texas Open is no longer played at the Westin La Cantera Resort, the association still remains intact. Of course, the PGA Tour event event was played on Westin La Cantera's Resort Course for 15 years, but the other course at this Texas Hill Country resort, the Palmer Course, isn't suffering from an identity crisis.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Walt Disney World Resort and Arnold Palmer Golf Management signed a twenty-year strategic alliance today to create even more magic for Disney golfers. Arnold Palmer Golf Management will operate, manage, maintain and help promote all five Disney courses including Disney’s Palm and Magnolia, Lake Buena Vista, Osprey Ridge and Oak Trail golf courses.

The distinctive 18-hole championship course features a front nine that plays like Scottish Links with sand, water and rolling terrain and a back nine that rolls through a jungle forest of pine. The 17th hole, its signature, has nine bunkers leading up to a green that sits on a plateau 100 feet from the ocean.

The Palmer Course is the home to an annual event on the LPGA Tour. The course surrounds a wetland preserve known as the Punaho'olapa Marsh, which is home to many endangered Hawaiian birds.

The Westin La Cantera is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Palmer Course, a championship 18-hole layout designed by legendary player Arnold Palmer and the Arnold Palmer Design Co.

In a recent phone conversation with staff writer Richard Oliver, the 81-year-old Palmer looked back on the work done on the 6,998-yard course and its place on the storied landscape of Texas golf.

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This happens any number of times a day, five days a week, at the house The King built, where Palmer shows up to work every morning, his trusty golden lab by his side. Dogs aren't allowed at Bay Hill, but Mulligan is tight with the owner.

There are very few living legends so intimately and comfortably connected to the public as Palmer is. It's why he has such an enduring legacy that has transcended golf for more than a half century. Even if you're not old enough to remember that whirling dervish swing and those 83 career victories around the world, chances are you've heard of an Arnold Palmer -- a half iced tea, half lemonade beverage.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- You set money aside for months, got the time off work and promised the old lady a new backyard deck when you return.

Of course you're going to take a crack at the island fairway shortcut on the famous "Gambler" hole at King's North.

The main draw among three golf courses at Myrtle Beach National, King's North steals headlines for it's ingenuity of the par-5 sixth, which can stake claim as arguably the signature hole of the entire destination.

Arnold Palmer recently decided that he would not renew his pilot's license after more than 50 years of aviation success and excitement, but that doesn't mean he ever tires of piloting the direction of another of his passions - overseeing one of the most prestigious events on the PGA TOUR, the Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by MasterCard.

"Every year I think of something that I want to do a little better, and every year that makes me look forward to bringing everyone back to Bay Hill Club," Palmer says with a big smile.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA - Arnold Palmer first made his mark on Hilton Head in 1969, when he captured the PGA Tour's inaugural Heritage Classic on then brand-new Harbour Town Golf Links. Now, Arnold Palmer Design Company (APDC) will add to his legacy on the island again by putting its Signature design stamp on the Wexford Plantation golf course.

In this dynamic pairing, Palmer and his team will bring their design style to a unique and elegant, 525-acre golf, yachting and tennis community in the heart of Hilton Head's bustling south end. The 18-hole Wexford course was originally designed by Willard C. Byrd and opened in 1983. Featuring five sets of tee boxes that offered a short course of 4,800 yards up to 6,887 yards from the longest tees for a par of 72, the tight, tree-lined design of the golf course winds through the plantation and through the years has provided a meticulously maintained, scenic tour.