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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
On the Road Again: A Week of Golf with Good Friends
Most golfers would prefer to walk 18 holes of golf and take a straight line to their approach shot to the green. The erratic pattern of a golf cart serving two people makes it more challenging to...
My Book vs ChatGPT; and the Winner is…
In Hollywood, the striking screen writers have anointed ChatGPT as their bête noire -- the technology that will ruin their careers and their lives. Yet, any of the strikers who take the time to...
Fairview Farm Fair to Older Players
My holy grail search for golf courses where the tee box arrangements make for competitive matches between golfers of differing abilities goes on. Recently, I played a golf course in Connecticut with a...
The Road to Your Dream Golf Home
Fidelity, the giant investment advisory firm, recently published “5 things to consider” before choosing where to live in retirement. I love Fidelity, which is where most of my investments are held, but they...
Par for the Course: Golf Architects Society Pushes for Fairer Tee Placements
If you are in your retirement years and have lost some distance on your tee shot drives, you may be closer to the dream of shooting your age, thanks to a recent initiative of the American Society of...
Is It Crazy to Retire Overseas?
Many of the world’s most expensive cities are in and around the North American continent. Indeed, Hamilton, Bermuda is the single most expensive city in the world, according to the online data...
Golf Home Inventories Remain Low, But Some Communities Defy Trends
The hangover from the pandemic remains. Most high quality and popular golf communities in the Southeast have the skinniest inventories of homes for sale in their histories. A few examples will...
“Best of” Lists Rank with Misinformation
The worst way to start a search for a golf community home, or any home for that matter, is by consulting any of the many “best states to live” lists. The criteria for ranking states is all over the...
Weather or Not: Should Hurricane Threats Deter You from Finding a Coastal Home
Tragic and devastating Hurricane Ian has me reevaluating articles I have posted here over the years about hurricane threats to coastal areas in the southeast U.S. In a nutshell, I had opined that, if...
Something New Under the Sun
At a well-traveled 74 years of age, there isn’t much I haven’t seen. But on my ride back to Connecticut Wednesday from a round of golf played in 90-degree heat in New York State, I spotted a tableau...
Viable Alternatives to Private Golf
The golf courses depicted below have two things in common: They are located inside the boundaries of full-service golf communities, and they are all open to the public. Those who play golf only once a...
U.S. Re-Opens Border to Canadians; Good News for Golf Courses
I write this the day after the U.S. Government announced that fully vaccinated Canadians are welcome to cross our northern borders and begin again, after 18 months, to spend money at American...