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Just 90 miles north of Phoenix, or five-hours southeast of Las Vegas, Sedona, Arizona is a great way to escape pressures of city, or just compliment your vacation itinerary on way to Grand Canyon! This is a place where beauty is valued — aesthetics, nature, and earth

With a semiarid landscape of rolling hills, leading to dramatic mountains, plateaus and peaks with abundant vegetation and color, red rock soil and 24/7/365 godly picturesque vistas, Sedona premiers as a world class destination with a medicament touch. Especially at sunset, many novice and professional photographers stop along road to get ultimate "Arizona Highways" shot.

Flagstaff and Grand Canyon ramble off to north of Sedona, with golf meccas Phoenix/ScottsdClick For Golf Packageale, to south. Sedona offers an abundance of Native American arts and crafts and a complex of galleries featuring nationally acclaimed Western artists. There are many fine restaurants and other activities, including golf, fishing, health clubs, and a variety of shopping opportunities.

Hiking, off-road tours, hot air ballooning, trail rides, train rides, scenic plane rides, mountain biking and rainbow trout farm fishing are more of special family attractions in this sandstone butte garden country.

Don't be too hastened in your travel plans; at least 3-4 days are necessary to thoroughly see and enjoy all Sedona has to offer.

RADISSON POCO DIABLO RESORT

But you have plenty of free range around Radisson Poco Diablo Resort in Sedona, one of Old West's best values for a family vacation, a weekend getaway or a group function. No other Sedona resort comes close to what Poco Diablo (Little Devil) has to offer.

The Radisson Poco Diablo is close or contiguous to Chapel of Holy Cross, Shrine of Red Rocks, Tlaquepaque Arts/Craft Village, Oak Creek Canyon, in addition to shopping for arts, crafts and western wear.

Set on 22 acres of superlative super-abundant landscape, The Radisson is part of natural red rock, willow trees, streams, falls, and fountains. There is ample room for entire family. The hillsides are great places to hike.

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"That's Tiger's ball!" a man shouts as little white orb shoots past me and skids to a halt some fifty feet off fairway, perched atop needles that have settled under high pines of ninth hole. (Opening photo: The scoreboard below club house, right of first fairway.)

As usual, he has out-driven players in his threesome, but this time shot is somewhat off course. We move quickly, gathering around ball leaving Tiger just enough room for his back swing and a clear angle through woods to ninth green. He crouches to inspect trajectory his ball must travel under low-hanging branches and up slope toward yellow flag that marks hole.

He confers briefly with his caddy and without hesitation pulls an iron from his golf bag, lines up shot and, WHOOSH! He takes what has become one of most recognizable and enviable swings in game. The ball stays low for some 40 feet slipping under trees before coming into clear and climbing hill in a perfect loft to reach green and land inside 25 feet from pin. The patrons, as spectators are known at this event, erupt in cheers sprinkled with expressions of "Get in hole!" and "You're man!"

Halfway through second day of 2004 contest, we've just seen one more display of precision shot making by Tiger Woods, game's best-known young player and its Number One icon worldwide.

We're here at Augusta National Country Club in Augusta, Georgia, home of The Masters - golf's greatest competition. And we're here as part of this grand gathering due in large part to a young man who, nearly three-quarters of a century ago, had a magnificent idea for a golf course and a national tournament. Following his retirement from championship golf in 1930 at age twenty eight, Bobby Jones, winner of 13 major championships in seven years prior and game's first Grand Slam Champion (then completed by winning U.S Amateur and U.S. Open and British Amateur and British Open in same year) was poised to pursue his idea of building a new kind of golf course.