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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
A New England Golf Community Alternative
The latest edition of Home On The Course, our free newsletter, will be sent to all subscribers on Tuesday. The newsletter is free of charge and includes reviews of golf communities, advice on how to...
Scottish Golf Retirement Within Your Grasp
I have previously spilled my dreams onto these pages about a partial retirement in Scotland. No self-respecting golfer could dream otherwise. I am mindful that dreams, for many reasons, often exceed...
Rigged Deal? Best of Best Communities List Favors Advertisers
This is the time of year that any of us who write about golf and golf communities receive press releases from golf communities touting their placement on Where to Retire magazine’s list of the “50...
Rhode Island Donald Ross Gem Saved from Extinction
The private Metacomet Country Club in East Providence, RI, was losing money and conditions had become iffy when former PGA Tour player Brad Faxon, a Rhode Island native, and other investors bought...
Dustin Johnson’s Brain
The back nine at Bethpage Black on Sunday confirmed something about top golfers and rank amateurs as well: Half-glass full golfers win, and half-empty types come close, when the pressure is on....
Perfect Golf Home Search Subject of Our May Newsletter
The first quarter of 2019 has been a good one for at least a few couples seeking a golf community home. In January, I learned that clients had purchased a piece of property at Reynolds Lake Oconee, with...
Not Out of Woods: Tiger Victory Good, But Looming Tax Issue Vexes Industry
According to a report by The National Golf Foundation, the golf industry had a very good year in 2018, with participation up for the first time in 14 years despite a small drop in the number of...
Done Deal: Cliffs group of communities sold to Kiawah owners
For months, rumors have been strong in and around the Cliffs communities in the Carolinas that South Street Partners, the firm that owns the amenities at Kiawah Island, were negotiating to purchase The...
Carolina (Golf) On My Mind
Golf Community Reviews is my day job, but every couple of months I moonlight for CarolinaLiving.com, where you will find a few dozen articles you have not read in this space, all dedicated to the...
Golf Course Closures Create False Negative
We are in that season again, the one in which the mainstream media decides it has been a few months since they published its previous “golf is dead” article. The thesis always goes something like this:...
Your Health & Timeshares
You probably can’t find two more unrelated topics than timeshare ownership and healthcare, unless you believe that stress can cause many health issues and timeshare ownership, according to those who...
New Year’s Resolution? Take the Money and Run…South
The housing market has peaked, according to the mainstream media and some economists who follow home sales closely. Much of the blame, if you can call it that, is laid at the feet of Millennials, those...