General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Great golf courses, new and old, in 2011
This is the first of three parts to run over the next few days. Links to original reviews of golf courses and golf communities visited are provided. Like the economy, my travel schedule slowed down and...
Tis the season to discover your golf home
For those of us who live in the northern tier of the nation, or in countries on the doorstep of winter (like Canada and those in northern Europe), this time of the year is filled with many...
Home On The Course November/December issue to mail tomorrow
The plot at Dominion Club in Richmond, VA, thickens. A bankruptcy judge has given the go ahead to the golf club’s owners to reorganize and pay off member initiation deposits with pennies on the...
Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald Golf Club shows its true links character
This is the third and final installment of Scott Simpson's review of Old Macdonald, the newest course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. When a controversy is hotly contested whether this or that hazard is...
Old Mac a flat golf course, like St. Andrews, except for where your golf ball ends up
This is the second part of a review of Old Macdonald Golf Club at Bandon Dunes. Text and photos by Scott Simpson Putting greens are to golf courses what faces are to portraits –C.B. Macdonald If the...
With golf course here and golf course there, Old Macdonald fits right in at Bandon Dunes
Text and golf photos by Scott Simpson There can be no really first class golf course without good material to work with. The best material is a sandy loam in gentle undulation, breaking into...
A Tiger, a Shark and Jim Furyk
We aren’t used to watching golf until the wee hours of the morning, but the early a.m. crankiness from our abbreviated sleep was a small price to pay for all the story lines that came out of The...
Can 12-hole golf courses “save” golf? Nicklaus thinks they could
For Jack Nicklaus, practice was always a key ingredient to his success as a competitive golfer. And although his competitive days are over, the Golden Bear still practices what he preaches. In...
Can golf be more fun?
Those who would write off golf because it is too difficult to play, too expensive and takes too long to complete a round are really saying that the game has lagged behind people's expectations for...
News You Can’t Use: When going gets tough, Realtor economist equivocates
Whatever the opposite of Chicken Little is, that is Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. He always has his pom poms at the ready, even in the darkest of days. But...
Golf Community Reviews back in business after snowstorm, loss of power
The lights came back on this morning at our Connecticut home, more than one week after a freak October snowstorm that destroyed thousands of trees and knocked out power to about a million people. ...
October storm got you down? Get up for a weekend of golf and real estate in Savannah
November 1 is the annual signal to hundreds of thousands of “snowbirds” that it is time to close up their houses up north and head to warmer climes before ol’ man winter blows in. This year, they...