Letter from the Gulf
Editor’s Note: Duncan Millar is a PGA professional with the Gulf Shores Golf Association, a collection of top-quality golf courses clustered around Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala., a vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico renowned for great seafood, fishing, white sugar-sand beaches and plenty of affordable lodging.
We followed up on an September 2009 golf-travel assignment for the Chicago Sun-Times by asking Duncan how the area is holding up since the BP oil spill. Surprisingly, he replied it’s not the oil but the national news media that is keeping people away. Here’s his report:
“One thing we really want to get out in a message is that things are okay here. It is not the hazardous wasteland that the media is making it out to be.
