It is not difficult to find information about golf communities in or near some of the more publicized cities of the south, such as Asheville, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, and Savannah. But some of the best bargains in golf community real estate are hiding in plain site, ringing the smaller cities in the southeast. I made stops at three of them recently.   

        I awoke this morning at Currahee Club in Toccoa, GA, to two beautiful sights: A gorgeous sunrise and a lone golf club employee cutting the green just below the cottage where I had stayed the night. That was a couple of hours before my tee time at Currahee, voted by Golfweek raters as a top 50 residential golf course. I’m going to reserve my comments about the golf course for a week or two from now. (Spoiler alert: The Jim Fazio layout deserves the praise it received from Golfweek, and then some.)