The sport of golf is enjoying a renaissance, and just about any first-class resort nowadays features a decent golf course. Below are a few of great golf resorts where a duffer can enjoy a swinging golf vacation.

Florida: Turnberry Isle Resort and Club

Located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Turnberry Isle Resort and Club features two Robert Trent Jones Sr. courses with contoured fairways and deceitfully tranquil hazards and traps. Its famous Island Green on the 18th hole of the South Course pits man against nature.

West Virginia: The Greenbrier

Granddaddy of American golf resorts, this sprawling 6,500-acre destination in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia contains three18-hole championship golf courses, a new golf academy, and a staff that includes four PGA professionals who hold daily short game clinics and also offer individual intensive instruction

Jamaica: The Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall

Opened August 2000 in the island's historic plantation area and close to Montego Bay International Airport, The Ritz-Carlton's 200-acre White Witch 18-hole championship golf course is five minutes from the resort. Sixteen of 18 holes overlook the sea, for one of the more thrilling golf vacations.

Scotland: The Old Course Hotel Resort

Send a traditional Dad to the birthplace of the sport: The Old Course Hotel Resort is adjacent to St. Andrews, the world's most famous golf course, and stands amid the largest golf complex in Europe.

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For more ideas (if you can't give him a trip, you can always spring for a box of balls) see Golf from About.com