Dear Golf Community Reviews reader,

        I wanted to share a bit of good news with you before we tell the world.  Today we are launching a new web site, GolfHomesListed.com, where we will initially list properties for sale in 20 of the southeast's most prominent golf communities.  Each community will have its own dedicated page, making the search for a golf community home –- or just some casual browsing –- an easy, one-stop-shopping exercise.

        The following announcement will be released soon:

 

HOME ON THE COURSE, LLC UNVEILS

GOLFHOMESLISTED.COM

     New Website Makes Golf Home Searches Easier;

     Top Golf Community Properties Listed In One Place

 

April 10, 2012, Avon, Conn.— Blog and newsletter publisher Home On The Course, LLC has launched www.GolfHomesListed, a new online service that makes it easy for golf-home buyers to browse, qualify, visit and purchase golf-oriented properties that best match their search

Our goal is to make those best-in-class communities available for our readers' consideration in an easy-to-browse format.

requirements.  The new site is a companion to the successful www.GolfCommunityReviews.com, where objective, unbiased reviews of golf developments and observations about golf real estate attract more than 12,000 visits each month from potential golf-home buyers.

        "People looking to purchase a golf home find it cumbersome to search for properties by individual community once they target a particular area," said Larry Gavrich, founder of the two sites and a real estate agent who works with clients to identify golf homes that match their requirements.  "GolfHomesListed.com provides a one-stop-shopping experience for our clients and links them with real estate professionals who specialize in golf community properties."

        Some of the most successful golf communities in the southern U.S. are participating in the launch, including well-known developments in Savannah, Ga., the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area, Wilmington, N.C., Charlottesville, Va., Asheville, N.C., Charleston, and the Bluffton/Hilton Head Island area.  In all, 20 golf communities will be listed at the site initially with dozens more expected to sign up with GolfHomesListed.com, according to Gavrich.

        "Virtually all retirement and second-home buyers research available properties on the Web prior to determining where to visit," said Ken Kirkman, developer of the Carolina Colours community in New Bern, N.C., and general manager of Landfall Realty in Wilmington, who is advertising properties for both communities at GolfHomesListed.com. "Larry's audience at his original blog site has been growing, and his new site has nice potential upside with little cost.  Even in this time of limited budgets, this commitment to GolfHomesListed was easy to make."

        The new site includes a summary of each community, details about its location, real estate offerings and golf course(s), a location map and up to 16 individual listings per community.   Initial properties listed for sale at the site range in price from the $100s to more than $3 million for homes and from below $100,000 to over $1 million for lots.

        Communities that Gavrich has visited personally and reviewed favorably receive a "Visited & Recommend" designation attached to their listings.

        "No golf community is paradise," says Gavrich, "but on a comparative basis, some shine.  Our goal is to make those best-in-class communities available for our readers' consideration in an easy-to-browse format."

        For more information or to list homes on www.GolfHomesListed.com, contact Gavrich at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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About Home On The Course, LLC

        Founded in 2005 by longtime corporate communications executive Larry Gavrich, Home On The Course, LLC visits and reviews golf communities and puts prospective real estate buyers in contact with realtors who represent the communities that best match their needs. Home On The Course operates www.GolfCommunityReviews.com, a well-respected blog site that reports regularly on individual communities, golf courses, as well as breaking news and trends in real estate. Home On The Course also operates www.GolfHomesListed.com, where Realtors list current properties for sale in some of the most respected golf communities in the nation.

        You know that scene from the movie Tin Cup where the Kevin Costner character, Roy McAvoy, almost takes out half the field on the practice range at the U.S. Open when he has a bad case of the shanks.  Practice ranges across America will be equally dangerous places today as many of us try to teach ourselves how to hook a wedge shot 40 yards.  Unless you worked the second shift on Sunday without access to a TV, you know that Bubba Watson did just that to win The Masters on Sunday.  He hit an impossible shot from an impossible position on pine straw and in the woods, a high hook that landed at the front of the 10th green and did a jig to the right that would make St. Vitus proud.

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Even the most rank amateur among us could have done better than Mickelson on that par 3.

wrists to the breaking point in an attempt to hit it like Bubba.  Golf is that rare game in which, on any given hole, we can all play like the pros, even better with a little luck.  Who among us doesn’t think we could have bunted the ball down the fairway three times to the green on the 10th and made bogey, as the game but ill-fated Louis Oosthuizen did on the ultimate hole?  Oh, and how about that par 3 4th?  We all would have taken Mickelson to the cleaners on that one, right?  Golf is like no other sport in that we can dream about playing like the pros, at least for one hole.  Contemplate trying to hit a Justin Verlander rising fastball.

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