Weekend Getaways: NFL & Golf

If you want to pair the NFL with great golf, here are 10 towns to consider

By Alex Myers

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September 2012

Are you ready for some football? Are you not ready to say goodbye to golf? Well, we've identified the 10 NFL cities that best combine both worlds. Using our new Course Finder, we've discovered the best golf courses in and around these cities based on their Golf Digest Places to Play rating (with five stars being the best). Have another city in mind? Use the Course Finder to locate the best layouts wherever you travel to take in a game.

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Pittsburgh

Perhaps no other city lives and dies with its football team as Pittsburgh does. Steelers fans have been rewarded with an NFL-record six Super Bowl trophies, but they also benefit from living in one of the best golf cities in the country. Even if you can't get onto famed Oakmont (No. 4 in Golf Digest's 100 Greatest), there are plenty of area tracks worth checking out, from Birdsfoot Golf Club (left), to Butler's Golf Course, to Olde Stonewall Golf Club, all of which we've rated 4.5 stars. A little further down the road (about 40 miles from downtown) is Chestnut Ridge Golf Club, which boasts two 4.5-star courses: Chestnut Ridge and Tom's Run.

Courtesy of Birdsfoot GC (top), Justin K. Aller/Getty Images