One of the oldest golf clubs in the Central Florida can be found on Winter Park FL, the Winter Park Country Club (WPCC) will host the sixth installment of the first Golf Lecture Series presented by Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children on October 6, 2009, at 6 in the evening. The series which continues each month until December showcases some of golf’s most celebrated PGA® and LPGA TOUR® players as well as fitness gurus, mental coaches, golf historians and other experts in the sport. Tickets for the sixth installment are priced at only $10 at the WPCC.

The Winter Park Country Club, a place rich in history, traces its roots back to 1900. The club has successfully maintained its stature in the golfing world, hosting some of golf’s biggest events. The club’s history includes plays from the likes of Hogan, Snead, Sarazen and Hagen. Featuring 2,470 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 36, it has a rating of 32.4 and a slope rating of 50 on Bermuda grass.

Lee Janzen

On this month’s lecture, the Winter Park Country Club is proud to bring over Lee Janzen as the guest speaker for October’s session. Janzen is known for being an eight-time PGA Tour winner and two-time US Open winner. Drawn to golf at an early age, he won his first tournament at 15, playing for the Greater Tampa Junior Golf Association. In the next few years that followed, Janzen along with the Florida Southern team won the Division II national team championship. He turned pro in 1986.

For details and information on the lecture series, please call 407-599-3339 or e-mail winterparkgolf@cityofwinterpark.org.

Score your tickets now. Space is limited so grab this opportunity to hear from the masters of golf.

For the fifth time in a row, Rollins College of Winter Park FL still holds the top honor for the annual rankings of “America’s Best Colleges”. The college has bested 117 master’s-level universities in the South of the country yet again.

One of the main factors that has contributed to Rollins’ firm grip on the top spot of the rankings include small class sizes with 67% of the classes that has students numbering less than 20. This figure makes Rollins College of Winter Park FL better than Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, Dartmouth College, and John Hopkins University whose respective ratings for the category are 65%, 58%, 55%, 63%, and 65% respectively.

While smaller class sizes make for better learning, the quality of faculty makes for quality lessons and 94% of the faculty working full-time at Rollins College of Winter Park FL, students has a better chance of landing with a subject matter expert that is proud and happy as a college professor. This percentage makes Rollins better than larger-than-life names like Princeton University or even Yale University among others.

For Rollins College, the honor of being the South’s best college is just one of the many fruits of the hard labor that their students, faculty, alumni, and recruiters who have been dedicated in producing students who are not just extraordinary leaders but also active contributors in their respective communities since 1885.

With all the distinctions garnered by the Rollins College of Winter Park FL, any student planning to get a degree in the field of Arts or Business is far from being wrong to choose Rollins College, America’s Best College in the South.

With the relaxing and natural ambiance in Winter Park FL, it is naturally a great place to spend the day walking at your own pace while enjoying the historical sites and sounds. In fact, there might be no better way to enjoy either the sunset or the sunrise in Park Avenue or along the seemingly endless stream of lakes found nowhere else in the country.

Winter Park FL is considered to be one of the top spots to visit in the U.S. and walking in such calming atmosphere is one of the reasons for such. With the city government openly supporting the activity as a mode of recreation and transportation, walking in Winter Park FL is guaranteed an experience to write home about.

True to the city government’s pro-pedestrian campaign, they even set-up a Pedestrian & Bicycle Advisory Board composed of resident pedestrians and cyclists to work hand-in-hand with the city hall in making Winter Park FL a better place to walk. And, with the board’s mission “To create and promote a viable and safe pedestrian and bicycle-friendly infrastructure and promote these modes of transportation throughout the city”, anyone wishing to walk their way around Winter Park FL is guaranteed to have a safe and truly memorable experience.

With over 20 years of serving good food and wine with a twist of fun and creativity on 3 physical locations in the Orlando area, including one in Winter Park FL, Dexter’s has always meant good value for money in every bite of their freshly cooked dish and in every sip of their hand picked wines.

Dexter’s dining experience is ever-changing with monthly menus that reflect the seasonal changes and availability of ingredients to insure only the freshest make it to every plate at a cheaper price. This plus the live bands and contemporary art pieces with no cover charge make Dexter’s the place to be for the cool folks of Winter Park FL and the Orlando area.

With numerous awards under its belt, including the “Best Brunch in Orlando”, Dexter’s is guaranteed a must-dine and wine in Winter Park FL, Thornton Park, and Lake Mary.

Artists of all styles, art collectors, enthusiasts, and hundreds of thousands of spectators alike gather on the chosen streets of Winter Park FL each year to enjoy all the activities that come along with the Sidewalk Art Festival – one of the country’s most celebrated, largest, most prestigious, and probably the oldest out door art festival.

This year alone, around 1,200 artists from all over the globe showed interest in the event although the stringent panel of judges only selected a total of 225 artists all in all. The art pieces that made the cut were quite diverse with pieces on contemporary categories including Digital Arts, Graphics and Draw, Fiber, Glass, Leather, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, and Photography. Naturally, with the magnitude of the Sidewalk Art Festival of Winter Park FL, traditional art pieces were also well represented in Painting, Clay, Sculpture, Watercolor, and Wood.

For those who might be wondering where all the enthusiasm and interest to join the Sidewalk Art Festival of Winter Park FL is coming from, knowing what are up for grabs might leave you stunned. Besides prestiege and honor, all the artists, who were fortunate enough to have made the initial cut, are fighting for a spot among the 62 awards that also comes with a total purse of $67,500. Of that amount, the “Best of Show” award alone makes an artists $10,000 richer.

Regardless of the numbers, the Sidewalk Art Festival of Winter Park FL are days to be remembered for thousands of American families and tourists. It has grown from being an art competition into a fun field 3-day event that brings families together to enjoy the arts, good music, good food, and an even better environment courtesy of Winter Park FL.