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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Scary tee shot at wide open #1 at Old Course
The Swilcan Burn wiggles its way in front of the first green at the Old Course. The green is somewhat easier to approach from the left side than it is from the right. As a golfer of some 50 years, I...
Latest on Aiken, rural Georgia golf communities courtesy of Tom and Kim Hoyt
Kim Hoyt at the 3rd hole at Woodside Reserve's Nicklaus Design course. -- photo courtesy of Tom Hoyt Hanover, NH's Tom Hoyt, a faithful reader, and his wife Kim recently combined a golf vacation and...
Same old same old, but with ads
If you are a regular visitor to this space, you probably noticed a few changes recently. We are giving up a little space, at the margins, to advertisers. These ads help pay the bills and defray some of...
Hitting the wall: Colgate's Seven Oaks, #10
One in a series of reviews of memorable holes played in 2008. Although the playing season is short in Hamilton, NY, home of Colgate University, the school-affiliated Seven Oaks golf course is long...
Have home prices and interest rates reached harmonic convergence?
I received an email from a real estate agent in North Carolina tonight, the first of many such appeals I expect to receive in the coming days and weeks. "I just wanted to drop you a line to say we...
It hurts to write this article
I am not writing a golf course review or about real estate today. Instead, as a public service, I am writing about writing about golf communities and real estate. And here is the message: Writing on a...
Best-places lists the worst kind of ideas
New Bern, NC, may not have made CNN/Money's best-and-least-expensive-towns-near-water list, but the folks who live in the community of Taberna would feel differently. Over the weekend, friends...
Blind trust: Developers live by amenities, and some die by them
Scores of Bernard Madoff's clients are asking themselves today how they could have trusted the former wunderkind with their collective billions of dollars (see Friday's article below). These were...
Florida, Long Island golf club members bilked big time
In "The Snows of Kilamanjaro," author Ernest Hemingway fictionalizes an alleged conversation he had with fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald: "The rich are different from you and me."...
What a 4.5% mortgage rate would cost you
A mountain home in the Connestee Falls golf community in North Carolina is currently on the market for $530,000. With a 20% down payment, monthly principle and interest on a 4.5% loan would be...
Cool house-hunting app for iPhone
While waiting for my car to be serviced this morning, I noted a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal for the Apple iPhone. I own an Apple iPhone, which I use as a way to check emails, my...
Tennessee National real estate on sale
Greg Norman's golf course at the community he is developing, Tennessee National, features many bunkers with stacked sod faces reminiscent of some of his favorite courses in the British Open...