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This is the third and final installment of Scott Simpson's review of Old Macdonald, the newest course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.   When a controversy is hotly contested whether this or that hazard is...

  This is the second part of a review of Old Macdonald Golf Club at Bandon Dunes.  Text and photos by Scott Simpson   Putting greens are to golf courses what faces are to portraits    –C.B. Macdonald           If the...

Text and golf photos by Scott Simpson      There can be no really first class golf course without good material to work with.  The best material is a sandy loam in gentle undulation, breaking into...

        We aren’t used to watching golf until the wee hours of the morning, but the early a.m. crankiness from our abbreviated sleep was a small price to pay for all the story lines that came out of The...

        For Jack Nicklaus, practice was always a key ingredient to his success as a competitive golfer.  And although his competitive days are over, the Golden Bear still practices what he preaches.         In...

     Those who would write off golf because it is too difficult to play, too expensive and takes too long to complete a round are really saying that the game has lagged behind people's expectations for...

        Whatever the opposite of Chicken Little is, that is Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors.  He always has his pom poms at the ready, even in the darkest of days.  But...

        The lights came back on this morning at our Connecticut home, more than one week after a freak October snowstorm that destroyed thousands of trees and knocked out power to about a million people. ...

     November 1 is the annual signal to hundreds of thousands of “snowbirds” that it is time to close up their houses up north and head to warmer climes before ol’ man winter blows in.         This year, they...

        Your editor finds himself, along with wife and dog, camping out in our house in Connecticut. We are among the few millions in the northeast without power.  As I write this, only 8 percent of the...

        The U.S. Congress cannot agree on much, but two Senators are reaching across the aisle to introduce a bill that might spur foreign investment in U.S. real estate.  If it passes, high-end golf...

     According to residential development experts, real estate investors and residents of The Cliffs Communities, ownership in the vaunted high-end group of developments may look a lot different a few...