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        Ask any of us baby boomers born after WWII who was the most notable golfer among U.S. Presidents in our lifetimes, and the quick answer will be Dwight Eisenhower (most of us will respond with the...

        According to numerous business news outlets yesterday, giant homebuilder Toll Brothers has settled for $25 million a lawsuit that claimed the company had misled investors over the period that...

        Golfweek magazine has just published its list of the best new golf courses in America for 2009/10, and only four courses in the Southeast region made the top 25.  Ballyhack, the tough and visually...

…Given the trajectory of home prices over the past couple of years, there's a large contingent of buyers who are afraid that after they buy, home price(s) will continue to fall and they will lose...

        Think of the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV, and the word “classic” comes to mind.  According to an article by Bradley Klein at GolfWeek, relations between the resort’s owner and the...

        The first hole at The Links of Gettysburg, just a few miles from the famed battlefield, provides its own set of skirmishes for the golfer who plays there for the first time, as I did yesterday.  Right off...

        The colorful leaves in New England this time of year must have distracted me (yeah, right).  I am a week behind in distributing our monthly free newsletter, Home On The Course.  The payoff for our...

        Connecticut golf courses are lovely but treacherous this time of year.  The cool autumn nights keep the grasses lush and green, and all the reds, oranges and burnt sienna leaves make it feel as if...

     The game was “designed to break your heart.”  Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti wrote that about baseball but it could apply to golf equally well, especially today.         On the world’s biggest...

        New England is known as “The Land of Steady Habits,” and one of those habits for natives is to live from cradle to grave in the region of their upbringing, venturing forth for visits to friends who live in...

        Our friends at the web site Small Town Gems recently completed a swing through North Carolina and assessed some of the state’s most charming smaller towns, among them some choices that dedicated...

       I have been doing research on golf community discovery packages these past few days for an article I will be writing for New England Golf Monthly as well as here in this space.  I have discovered an odd trend...