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No other state in the east offers more in the way of golf community choices than does North Carolina, whose 500-mile length spans ocean to mountains with a fertile Piedmont region in between. Choose from among dozens of coastal golf communities, like Landfall, just a few miles from the exciting town of Wilmington and even closer to Wrightsville Beach; or Mountain Air (photo left), whose 4,000+ foot elevation will add a few yards to your golf shots; or any of the great choices near sophisticated cities, like Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way choices where bargain real estate abounds and the golf is excellent, such as the area between Hertford (Albemarle Plantation, Scotch Hall Preserve) and Greenville (Cypress Landing, Brook Valley); and the many top notch golf communities sprinkled throughout the western North Carolina mountains.
No guts, no glory, bargain waterfront views
It takes some guts to fly the lake off the tee at Scotch Hall Preserve's 2nd hole on its Arnold Palmer designed golf course. It takes sharp pricing to sell golf community lots into the teeth of a...
Battle of the billboards on Highway 17
No highway east of the Mississippi and, perhaps, in all of America is more chock-a-block with golf communities than is U.S. Highway 17, which begins somewhere around Winchester, VA, and runs out of...
Bank-owned bargains near Outer Banks
Vacationers, retirees and investors have had a choice of some extreme bargains in golf communities these last few years. No reasonable offers have been refused, and a few that reasonable people...
Non-golfer’s joy living amidst “God’s work”
by Rick Vogel I am not a golfer, but I am a fan of this blog site. I live in a golf community, and it is fun to compare the benefits of being a non-golfer on a golf course to those of the golfing...
Course Correction: Golf Digest Top 10 new private community goes native with name
It is not exactly typical for a golf course that earns a top designation one year to change its name the next. But that is precisely what Golf Digest’s #9 rated new private golf club of 2009,...
Golf Course Review: Cape Fear National
The par 5 8th hole at Cape Fear National brings all the key elements of Tim Cate's design into vivid display -- and into play. The best golf course designers are like painters or mixed media...
Wilmington, NC, area’s Brunswick Forest plows through economy’s headwinds
Leland, NC’s, Brunswick Forest, which I first visited in 2008 just after its initial houses had gone up, is defying the gravity of a plummeting housing market. I hardly recognized the golf community...
River Landing review, Part II
This is the second part of our review of River Landing in Wallace, NC. River Landing provides a few extras not typical of most other golf communities. It may seem a small thing to the culinary...
Safe Landing: Wallace, NC golf community positioned to thrive in market rebound
Most everything about the North Carolina golf community of River Landing seems reasonable. Its attractive array of single-family homes starts in the $400s. My dinner in the large but warm clubhouse...
Matter of time: Kilmarlic Golf Club and community ready for a market rebound
The 4th hole at Kilmarlic. Photos courtesy of Kilmarlic Golf Club. Kilmarlic in Powells Point, NC, is the kind of community that has just about everything going for it except market timing;...
Sound Investment: Bridge could increase property values, rentals at Currituck Club
Vacationers from the north heading for the Outer Banks of North Carolina pass near Aydlett, NC. On a clear day, they can see across the Currituck Sound vie miles to Corolla, home to dozens of wild...
Bald Head Island Club's 7th hole to die for
What started as a modest tweaking of Bald Head Island’s links golf course has turned into something of an archeological dig as workmen have discovered skeletal remains adjacent to the 7th green. ...