General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Flexibility=value in the current market
The more flexible people are about their criteria for a home on the course, the more choices open up to them, such as The Landings, in Savannah, GA, a place that, suprisingly, is mostly hurricane...
Golf bag on my shoulder, no banjo on my knee
I am off to Alabama in early March to check out some of the communities that are sprouting up along the famed Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. Alabama doesn't register on most northerners' radar as a...
The hits just keep on coming...so thank you
The first photo we ever featured was of the first hole at The Thornblade Club, in Greer, SC. Not everyone wants to pay for amenities they won't use in a golf community. Purchasing a home "outside" the...
Best places to live if you never want to cook
We happened upon a fun web site the other day that is loaded with all sorts of interesting data about cities. It is appropriately named City-Data.com, and the site includes numerous lists of Top 100...
Your editor's agony: Is membership worth the costs?
Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, one of the best in the nation, charges at high season about what it costs me per round to play as a member at the two clubs to which I belong. I have been a member of a...
Exploring a golf community for $10 a night
In every bad market, someone benefits. In the Great Depression, the relatively few people not over-invested in the stock market had the cash to buy distressed properties and companies and make a...
Halfway houses: Good places to live if you must compromise
The Davis Love III course at The Preserve is the most challenging in the Chapel Hill area. Trouble from tee to green on the 18th is just a taste of what comes before. What do you do if you love the...
The dumbest guys in the room
In the movie "As Good as it Gets," Melvin Udall, the obsessive-compulsive and acerbic author played by Jack Nicholson, is asked how he is able to write about women with such accuracy. "I think of a...
It's our birthday too, yeah: Year in Review
The 4th hole at Sewanee Golf Club in Tennessee featured the narrowest green I had ever played. Today marks the first anniversary of GolfCommunityReviews. By my calculations, we have produced more than 350...
New feature at Golf Community Reviews
We have added a new feature to the site, a calendar that serves two functions. First, if you have been away from your computer and want to catch up on what you missed, just simply click on a date...
GolfWeek cover memorable for wrong reason
This week, I have been thinking about great magazine covers of the past that pushed the boundaries of good taste and sense. Unless you have been sleeping in a cave or playing golf in Nepal, you...
Zillow weep for me: Real estate voyeurs' tool debuted in good times, bitter pill in bad
Zillow.com, the online real estate site that estimates and tracks the value of more than 70 million homes in the U.S., was like a recreational narcotic when it debuted two years ago. After a busy,...