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Super Bowl, Super Golf
COMBINE CHAMPIONSHIP COURSES
WITH THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Come and join Your Golf Travel’s
very own Super Bowl party in 2020.
America’s biggest sporting event
swings into Miami, Florida, home to
the Dolphins NFL team and some
of the country’s most celebrated
golf resorts.
Words by Nick Bayly
It’s a measure of the popularity of the
Super Bowl—the climax of America’s
National Football League season—that
a recent poll of avid NFL fans reported
that more than half would rather watch
the game than attend their own child’s
birthday party.
OK, so quite a few dads I know here
in the UK would probably consider
giving their son or daughter’s birthday
bash the swerve if their team made
it to the FA Cup final at Wembley, or
England were on the brink of an Ashes
victory at Lords. But, suffice to say, the
Super Bowl grips America’s collective
psyche in a way that no event on this
side of the pond quite does.
Today, thanks to a global TV audience
of over 150 million and growing
social media hype, the Super Bowl is
bigger than ever. And even though
your team might not be playing, it’s
almost impossible not to get caught
up in the razzmatazz that surrounds
this sporting juggernaut. Following
Atlanta’s staging of the event in 2019,
which resulted in the lowest-scoring
match of all time with New England
Patriots’ 13-3 win over the LA Rams,
2020 sees the Super Bowl roadshow
roll into sunny Miami for the eleventh
time in its history, and ‘The Magic
City’ is once again gearing up for an
almighty party.
The 54th renewal, which takes place
at the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock
Stadium on February 2nd, will have
bigger significance than ever, with
the NFL celebrating its centenary in
2020 and promising fans a nostalgiapacked programme of events. And
while specific celebrations for the
week leading up to the big game
are still being finalised, the creation
of a 54-acre Super Bowl Park in the
centre of Miami will certainly help get
everyone in the party mood. Spanning
14 blocks, the park will allow visitors
to explore Miami’s pulsating nightlife
while also experiencing 100 years
of NFL history for a week before the
game kicks off.
For UK-based aficionados of American
Football (who don’t mind putting up
with endless renditions of the StarSpangled Banner and can stomach
a foot-long hotdog), the timing of the
Super Bowl is perfect for escaping the
mid-winter gloom and combining a trip
to the self-proclaimed ‘Greatest Show
on Earth’ to play some top-quality
golf courses under cloudless skies.
South East Florida and the region
around Miami is packed with a superb
selection of golf resorts and courses
on which to while away the hours
either side of the match.
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