General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Worthless forecasts
If your local weatherman forecasted sunny days for five days running, and it rained on every one of them, you would start carrying an umbrella, no matter how rosy the forecast. Then if he started...
Tell me where to go
I can't visit every golf course community, much as I would like to. There are thousands of them nationwide (and a like number around the world). But I do try to visit those in the most popular areas of...
Buffet of communities' amenities look great until you have to pay for them
Non-equestrian golfers might want to stop and ask who will pay eventually for equestrian centers in communities like this one at The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards. I like horses, especially at Kentucky...
Playing poorly but learning something
My friend and subscriber to HomeOnTheCourse, Bill Miller, and I are playing in our club's major member/member tournament this weekend. After losing our first nine hole match on Friday, we won the...
Two provocative items in today's WSJ
The Wall Street Journal's Personal Journal section today includes two front-page articles that should be of interest to readers of this site. One is about golf and one is about real estate. (Note: Full...
Find Your Spot does, and then again doesn't
Every once in a while, I get the urge to imagine I am someone other than me. The web site FindYourSpot.com is a good place to do it. FindYourSpot is one of those sites that asks you a bunch of questions...
Graduation advice
We celebrate our son Tim's high school graduation today, so I am taking a day off from golf. It seems appropriate to offer the best advice to graduates I have read, a piece written almost 10 years...
Housing numbers' repeat ugly performance, but there's a silver lining for those heading South
The news in the last two days has not been good for those looking to sell their homes. But for those looking to sell and then buy something else, especially a new home from one of the major...
Horses for courses
In the rush to provide more amenities than the next community, some developers are appealing to horse owners who also like to swing clubs. No, we aren't talking about polo players, but rather...
Westies finish 3rd of 24 teams
As I wrote earlier, today was the big season-ending tournament for New England prep schools (only 24 competed, one less than planned), the Kingswood-Oxford Invitational. My son Tim's Westminster team...
Westminster golfers try to close the deal
There will be no regular post today. I am off to watch the Westminster School golf team compete against 25 other New England schools in the season-ending Kingswood-Oxford Invitational. All five scores...
Your editor, the matchmaker
True story. I thought I was meeting my friend and former colleague Alden for a cup of coffee this morning, something we try to do every three months or so. Instead, Alden showed up with Annette, whom I...