General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Home On The Course Newsletter Coming Tomorrow
The latest edition of Home on the Course, our free monthly newsletter, is set to mail to subscribers tomorrow. In the November issue, we try to make sense of the various private club memberships...
Southern Comfort Even for Democrats
In the run up to the most contentious Presidential election in our lifetimes, I recently interviewed developers and residents in a few golf communities in Southeast. I asked if the fractious nature...
Anger Management and the 2016 Election
I have published this blog for nearly 10 years, and we are going through the third Presidential election during that time. It never occurred to me to comment on an election in this space, other than...
Home On The Course Election Special Is Out
In this most contentious of Presidential elections, one might be inclined to think that the clubhouse bars, dining rooms and golf courses in Southern golf communities are the scenes of pitched...
Saucon Valley Good As Expected
For most of the 50+ years I have been playing golf, I’ve known about and wanted to play at least one of the three golf courses at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, PA. I attended college an hour...
Hurricane Matthew Breaks The Mold
Cleanup from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Matthew last week is well under way. Water and tree damage to golf communities from Miami, FL, to New Bern, NC remain, but golf courses are...
Getting Schooled: A Most Unique Golf Course
Someday, soon I hope, I will activate a web site I have owned for a few years called “Off The Beaten Cart Path.” Although it sounds representative of golf courses at significant distance from major...
Suited to a Tee: Movin’ On Up, Yardage-wise
I am resigned to the fact that I will never hit a 90 mph rising fastball, sink 10 free throws in a row, or kick a 40-yard field goal –- with or without a line of 300-pounders rushing at me. But at...
Keen on Keney Park: New life for a Hartford gem
Last week I read yet another poorly researched and stupid article by a real estate writer predicting the doom of golf communities. He used, as evidence, one golf community owner in Arizona who...
A Call for Dynamic Priced Green Fees
The friendly young man behind the pro shop counter said he was happy to extend the hotel guest rate of $89 to 10 of us at the River Marsh golf course at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, MD, last...
What to Look for in a Golf Community Web Site
Virtually everyone looking for a golf community home these days begins the search online. Golf community web sites are no different than any other consumer product and, therefore, expect from most of...
Always a pleasure to play a classic course
I am a member of a group called the Junior/Senior Golfing Society of Connecticut. The organization has a couple hundred members, almost all representing private clubs in the state, and every summer...