I will be visiting the following communities in the mountains of western North Carolina during the first week of September:

August 31        The Ridges Golf Club, Jonesborough, TN

September 1    TBD

September 2    Cold Mountain, NC; Springdale Golf Club, Laurel Ridge                                  community and golf club

September 3    Balsam Preserve Golf Club and community

September 4    Trillium Golf Club and community

September 5    Brights Creek Golf Club and community

    If you have any questions you want me to ask in any of these communities or have a recommendation for a community to visit on Labor Day (9/1), please let me know.

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Old Chatham Golf Club opened just a few years ago.  No pool, no tennis, just golf.

 

    A reader of this space, a friend from Connecticut, alerted me yesterday that he closed on a piece of property at Governors Club in Chapel Hill, NC.  Governors Club features 27 holes of Jack Nicklaus Signature golf and

I feel like a proud new father three times over this year.

impressive topography that includes dramatic rock outcroppings on many of the properties.  My friend and his wife meet with a local architect next month to begin the process of moving their young family to one of the most livable towns in the southern U.S.  With the University of North Carolina just a couple of miles away, and Duke University at just 20 minutes, Chapel Hill is a magnet for great entertainment, collegiate sports and the widest range of cultural and educational pursuits.  Oh, and the barbecue in the area is darn good too.

   My friend is contemplating an additional membership at the local Old Chatham Golf Club which opened just a few years ago and was built purely for golf.    

    "We are thrilled," he wrote me about the impending move to Chapel Hill.  "Thanks for your help."
    I feel like a proud father three times over this year, having helped other readers find a property in Ocean Ridge Plantation in coastal North Carolina and a home at The Landings just outside of Savannah.
    If I can help you, please contact me.  There is never a cost or obligation.