General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Don't forget to check cell phone coverage on golf community visit
In the excitement of an exploratory visit to a golf community, those of us searching for a golf home may ask all the right questions about financial stability, membership dues, homeowner...
A Rant in Defense of Golf
The following screed by your editor ran in ourHome On The Course monthly newsletter last month. If you would like to subscribe to our free publication, please click here. Judith Shé, the editor of...
South Carolina has most "golfiness" of southern states
LINKS magazine's Spring edition includes a ranking of the best states for golf, according to article author Jim Moriarity. The author admits his list is "a subjective state-by-state ranking of...
Announcing a New Way to Search for a Golf Course Home
For more than two years, we have listed golf homes for sale at our companion site, GolfHomesListed.com. Thousands of people visited the site to look at pictures and at brief details about homes in...
Bland marketing language on Nicklaus' side in lawsuit
We wrote a few days ago about Jack Nicklaus' new ice cream venture; the current global businessman and golf architect formerly known as the best professional golfer in the world is lending his name...
Nicklaus dishes it out
It has been a slow few years in the golf design business, and former golf-playing architects have to do what they can to keep busy, especially after their competitive golf days are over. We...
Coast Has the Most for Retirees, but Asheville Leads the Way
Lists of Top Places to Retire and similar rankings are published for the benefit of their publishers, not their readers. They help build traffic to web sites and sales of magazines. They are either...
$1 Lots Still Available in Upscale Golf Communities
For the price of an iTunes song, a ballpoint pen or a pound of chicken thighs, you can own a beautiful ½ acre lot in an upscale golf community in the Low Country of South Carolina. In doing...
If You Build It, They Do It Quicker in the South
The common notion is that the pace of life in the southern U.S. is slower than elsewhere but, at least in one category, it is the fastest region in the nation. If you want to have a home built...
1990 Hot Spots Still Pretty Cool Today
My wife and I finally got around to two large boxes of newspaper clippings we had saved beginning around 1985, when we moved to Connecticut from New York City. Most of the clips were restaurant...
Golf Is Dead?
If you read the headlines of some of the top business magazines and newspapers in the U.S. this past year, you might have gotten the impression that the game of golf is on life support; that...
It's the most wonderful time of the year...to sell your house
It is tempting to assume that winter is a terrible time to sell a house, especially in the northern U.S. when things stop growing and blooming, even if they aren't covered in snow. But according to a...