Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
My email inbox gave off the odor of desperation Tuesday. A note from a sales representative for the Reunion Resort near Orlando had fire sale written all over it. "...prices for the Villas at...
Those who decide at the last minute to fly north to south in the U.S. have two choices -- a rock and a hard place. I could not make the 15-hour drive to South Carolina with my family on Monday...
The single best green that I have ever putted on is at the New Haven Country Club in Connecticut. And it isn't even on the course. It is the practice green, a perfect circular piece of sculpted...
This week's Ladies PGA tournament, The Northwest Arkansas Proctor & Gamble Beauty Championship, ended yesterday with a victory for Seon Hwa Lee, who birdied the par 5 18th hole for a one-stroke...
Last night my wife and I were invited to our friends' home for dinner. We brought along a bottle of champagne to toast their purchase the other day of a second home at The Landings, a 4,500-acre...
I write this as I watch the televised women's tennis finals from Wimbledon. It is a proud day for the Williams family and for American tennis fans who may have begun to wonder if the country's...
The Oxmoor Valley Ridge course (par 4 3rd hole shown), part of the Robert Trent Jones Trail, is just a few miles from the interesting and sophisticated city of Birmingham. Alabama imposes the second lowest...
Golf courses in Scotland are considered essentially public land. On every course we played, including the Old Course at St. Andrews, we saw people walking their dogs, often across fairways. They...
The business section of my hometown paper, the Hartford Courant, has shrunk over time to a mere few pages of news. Today's four pages are rife with nothing but bad news for Connecticut residents...
Note to readers: Just a few more days of articles about Scotland, I promise (I need to amortize the exorbitant cost of the trip). Then we will return to discussions of golf real estate and related...
A few weeks ago I was interviewed for a piece in an online investment newsletter, for an organization called NuWire, on the subject of owning and operating a golf course. It is not exactly my area...
I was captivated by the views from almost everywhere on the Lundin Golf Club links. After a glorious couple of weeks of golf and visits with family and friends in the United Kingdom, we are back in...