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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,...
Charting lower costs: Helpful table provides city comparisons
There are plenty of ways people can reduce their costs of living. The simplest but toughest is to stop spending as much. But changing your lifestyle is difficult and depressing, no matter how...
Rent with option to buy...or not
Many of us -- not me -- are too young to remember that Knoxville played host to a World's Fair in 1982. It has come a long way since. It is no surprise that the highest priced markets for apartment...
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We have upgraded the comments process here at GolfCommunityReviews, making it easier for our readers to add their own perspectives about our reviews and other observations. I hope you will share your own...
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Proximity, privacy and logic not factors in T&L Golf's sloppily researched community rankings
The Ford Plantation, whose Pete Dye course is one of his most restrained and best designs, made theTravel & Leisure Golf magazine's list of top 100 golf communities in the U.S. Travel & Leisure...
Golf and the race for the U.S. Presidency
It is looking more and more like we will not have a golfer in the White House come January 2009 (not that we have one now). That's too bad; the nation typically seems at peace when a golfer is...