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Bye Bye (with a) Birdie: Links lover ends memorable English golf trip on high note
by Scott Simpson This is the third and final part in the series. As we first approached Southport in the fading light of early evening, we suddenly found ourselves driving through spectacular dunes...
Royal Flush: Hoylake and Lytham at core of Open Championship rotation
Text and photos by Scott Simpson The second part of a review of some of England’s great courses by one of our readers, a lover of the links courses of the British Isles. Because of the wide variety of...
Links to golf’s past: Reader makes classic pilgrimage to play the British Isles royals
Editor’s Note: Golf Community Reviews reader Scott Simpson has made repeated visits to the British Isles to play links golf. After a recent trip, I asked him to contribute some thoughts about the...
Like Ike: Battlefield, college and golf made former President at home in Gettysburg
Ask any of us baby boomers born after WWII who was the most notable golfer among U.S. Presidents in our lifetimes, and the quick answer will be Dwight Eisenhower (most of us will respond with the...
False positive? Toll Bros. settles suit; plaintiffs claimed overreliance on high-end
According to numerous business news outlets yesterday, giant homebuilder Toll Brothers has settled for $25 million a lawsuit that claimed the company had misled investors over the period that...
Ballyhack makes top 15 of new courses
Golfweek magazine has just published its list of the best new golf courses in America for 2009/10, and only four courses in the Southeast region made the top 25. Ballyhack, the tough and visually...
Question: “Will golf home prices go lower?” Answer: “Don’t worry about it.”
…Given the trajectory of home prices over the past couple of years, there's a large contingent of buyers who are afraid that after they buy, home price(s) will continue to fall and they will lose...
Things get ugly at beautiful Greenbrier
Think of the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV, and the word “classic” comes to mind. According to an article by Bradley Klein at GolfWeek, relations between the resort’s owner and the...
Up against the wall in Gettysburg
The first hole at The Links of Gettysburg, just a few miles from the famed battlefield, provides its own set of skirmishes for the golfer who plays there for the first time, as I did yesterday. Right off...
October newsletter: Better late than never
The colorful leaves in New England this time of year must have distracted me (yeah, right). I am a week behind in distributing our monthly free newsletter, Home On The Course. The payoff for our...
God bless the leaf rule
Connecticut golf courses are lovely but treacherous this time of year. The cool autumn nights keep the grasses lush and green, and all the reds, oranges and burnt sienna leaves make it feel as if...
The lonely Hunter in all of us
The game was “designed to break your heart.” Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti wrote that about baseball but it could apply to golf equally well, especially today. On the world’s biggest...