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From an incredible trip to Wisconsin's SentryWorld to Mid Pines in Pinehurst to Pennsylvania's Valley Forge area, there are plenty of deals to be had as we near the end of the summer golfing season.

The PGA Tour will bring the second leg of its FedEx Cup Playoffs to Delaware for the first time when venerable Wilmington Country Club hosts the BMW Championship Aug. 18-21. We take a closer look at the course that is no stranger to the championship spotlight.

You’ve got to love Florida golf. With the ability to tee it up here all year long, the state has more golf courses than any other in the country. There are a lot of great pockets of golf in the state, but today we are going to focus on some of the best options available to you: Northeast Florida.

There is plenty to do in Memphis, where the Mississippi River meets the southwestern corner of Tennessee. It’s primarily known for its music – Memphis is the Home of the Blues, the Birthplace of Rock and Roll, and the site of Graceland, residence and final resting place of Elvis Presley. A recent visit to the region showed how golf in this area has become another draw to a municipality that considers itself the “entertainment center of the Mid-South.”

You’ve put together the ultimate golf getaway with a group of your friends and the day for your trip has finally arrived. You load up all your gear, lug it through the airport, check it on the plane and then poof…somehow your luggage disappears. There's a solution to this — Ship Sticks.

There are few summer golf destinations on par with a trip to Northern Michigan. The mild weather, the quality and number of courses, the accommodations, and the waterside towns are all sensational. And while it's hard to go wrong playing golf anywhere in Northern Michigan, you can actually do pretty well with some one-stop shopping. And that one-stop could provide you with a bucket list trip, all under one brand — BOYNE Golf.

Owned by Raleigh-based McConnell Golf since 2011, Sedgefield Country Club had been a member-owned private club since being founded in 1926. It is renowned for its Ross-designed course as much as for being the host of the Wyndham Championship, the Piedmont Triad’s annual PGA Tour event that began in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open (GGO).

Detroit Golf Club, which was founded in 1899 and has long been the bastion of golf in the city, was a natural place for the PGA Tour to play its first regular event ever in the city of Detroit. Originally focused solely around golf, the Detroit Golf Club is home to two Donald Ross signature golf courses – fewer than 20 clubs in the United States can claim this distinction.

Golf has been part of life on Hilton Head Island since the first courses were designed and came on line in 1962. The Hilton Head and its surrounding mainland and fellow islands have dozens of courses, with tracks designed by the likes of Pete Dye, Robert Trent Jones Sr., Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arthur Hills, Davis Love III, Bob Cupp, Arnold Palmer, and George Cobb.

TPC Twin Cities, which will host the 3M Open for fourth time when the PGA Tour heads to Blaine, Minnesota on July 21-24, is a study in contrasts – and that’s a good thing. Our Travel Caddie explains why.