General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Data points: Waiting for the next big thing
January clearly is not the best month for golf equipment sales. It is still a few months before the season starts up north and a few weeks before the big golf show season begins with the...
The People Speak: Caledonia, Cuscowilla rate highly in new Zagat guide
Yesterday's trip to the mailbox was eventful. The new Zagat guide to America's Top Golf Courses arrived. We were pleased to see a few old friends rated near the top of the list of the nation's best...
Zillow fun, not very accurate
Zillow.com is a great idea, a site where homeowners and potential buyers, as well as nosy neighbors, can get an up-to-date appraisal of values for most homes in the U.S. In theory, Zillow does what...
Tell us where to go
How often do you get an offer like that? We are planning our upcoming research trips to visit golf course communities in some of the more popular areas in the southern U.S. Here are a few of the...
Quotes of the day: Holding out for market snapback may be (April) fool's paradise
"This isn't going to be over in a year. Housing prices could be declining for years and years." -- Robert Shiller, Yale University economics professor. "We don't think the market is in that bad of...
Southeast golf areas steer clear of sub-prime mess, show stability
You have to go pretty deep into the list of metro areas with the highest rate of sub-prime mortgages delinquencies before you come to an area in the southeastern U.S. The Wall Street Journal on...
Housing numbers bad, weather or not
The housing optimists' glasses were more than half full last week with the decent numbers on existing home sales. The hope, false though it was, was for a positive report today on new home sales....
Mascots gone wild
From time to time, I can't resist the urge to comment on things unrelated to golf, especially if they irk the political correctness lobby... I had the pleasure last Sunday of sitting next to my...
What to make of the latest home sales numbers
National Association of Realtors data released yesterday indicates that existing U.S. house sales increased almost 4% in February compared with January, the biggest single-month gain since March...
New airline steps into vacuum left by Hooters Air
Thousands of male golfers mourned the loss last year of Hooters Airlines, which had provided cheap and reliable service to Myrtle Beach (and, ahem, friendly flight attendants) from Newark and a few...
News and notes
Cutter Creek, a new community near Greenville, NC, will soon release its second phase of properties (although their web site says this will happen in the summer, but a note to us says the spring). ...
I need help with hole-in-one ethics
A few days ago, I wrote that my son, Tim, scored his first ace on St. Patrick's Day. After a few cursory congratulations to him from the cart boys and the foursome that played in front of us at...