Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
The first photo we ever featured was of the first hole at The Thornblade Club, in Greer, SC. Not everyone wants to pay for amenities they won't use in a golf community. Purchasing a home "outside" the...
We happened upon a fun web site the other day that is loaded with all sorts of interesting data about cities. It is appropriately named City-Data.com, and the site includes numerous lists of Top 100...
Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, one of the best in the nation, charges at high season about what it costs me per round to play as a member at the two clubs to which I belong. I have been a member of a...
In every bad market, someone benefits. In the Great Depression, the relatively few people not over-invested in the stock market had the cash to buy distressed properties and companies and make a...
The Davis Love III course at The Preserve is the most challenging in the Chapel Hill area. Trouble from tee to green on the 18th is just a taste of what comes before. What do you do if you love the...
In the movie "As Good as it Gets," Melvin Udall, the obsessive-compulsive and acerbic author played by Jack Nicholson, is asked how he is able to write about women with such accuracy. "I think of a...
The 4th hole at Sewanee Golf Club in Tennessee featured the narrowest green I had ever played. Today marks the first anniversary of GolfCommunityReviews. By my calculations, we have produced more than 350...
We have added a new feature to the site, a calendar that serves two functions. First, if you have been away from your computer and want to catch up on what you missed, just simply click on a date...
This week, I have been thinking about great magazine covers of the past that pushed the boundaries of good taste and sense. Unless you have been sleeping in a cave or playing golf in Nepal, you...
Zillow.com, the online real estate site that estimates and tracks the value of more than 70 million homes in the U.S., was like a recreational narcotic when it debuted two years ago. After a busy,...
There are plenty of ways people can reduce their costs of living. The simplest but toughest is to stop spending as much. But changing your lifestyle is difficult and depressing, no matter how...
Many of us -- not me -- are too young to remember that Knoxville played host to a World's Fair in 1982. It has come a long way since. It is no surprise that the highest priced markets for apartment...