Retired couples with a golfing lifestyle in mind have two broad geographical choices: Move to a remote location with the peace and quiet they might not have had during their earning and child-rearing years; or replicate the excitement and many service options from their decades in a suburban location. Two choices in retirement – rural or near-urban. “Near-urban” can be as close as inside the boundary lines of a city or just outside. This week we travel to three uber-popular cities in the Southeast, each with a different personality but with all kinds of options for the adventure-, culture-, sports- and restaurant-minded.
The beautiful views are maximized at Salisbury Country Club.
Salisbury Country Club, Midlothian, VA
A dear friend, a former professor at the nearby University of Richmond, is a member of Salisbury. He invited me to play there this past summer and I was mighty impressed with the conditions on the course, the services from the pro shop to the dining facilities and the general feel of the quintessential but unstuffy private club. Homes surrounding the course are well tended and of the luxury variety with prices that start in the mid six figures, not outlandish these days. This regal home, priced at $565,000, looks out on the fairway of one the three nines at Salisbury. Distance to downtown Richmond is less than six miles. Whitney Pace is my go-to agent in Richmond and one of the best female golfers in the city.
One home that is fashionably close to the Pebble Creek golf course.Pebble Creek, Taylors (Greenville), SC
The heading on the listing below says it all – “Location! Location! Location! Just 15 minutes to downtown Greenville.” Greenville, SC, one of the hottest spots in the Southeast the last 10 years, is known for its lively entertainment district along the Reedy River, the gorgeous campus of Furman University, more golf communities per capita than most other urban areas, and a solid economic foundation. (BMW of America is headquartered nearby.) Although the deluxe Cliffs communities are sprinkled in the mountains and valleys that surround the city, lesser known communities like Pebble Creek are terrific bargains in terms of golf membership and real estate, like the $410,000 listing below. Wanda Reed, a lifelong resident of Greenville, is one of the premier agents in town. Click here for Pebble Creek home for sale.
The bunkers at TPC Myrtle Beach are unmistakably Tom Fazio.The Myrtle Beach area’s “high season” depends on whether you are a beach goer or a golfer. Golfers tend to flood the area from February through May and then again from September through November, when the weather is balmy and the fairways and greens are lush. But, come summer, it is beach time, and the area’s population swells from about 30,000 to 350,000 (try getting a hotel room or reservation at the better restaurants). Murrells Inlet is south of the heavy action but not by much, yet its location beside the TPC of Myrtle Beach makes it one of the top golf communities for year-round living in the area. Just minutes to seafood restaurants, Atlantic beaches and the area’s main hospital, you can’t ask for a better location. And you can’t ask for a more reasonably priced new home than the one below. Lifelong South Carolinian and ace local agent Denise Talbert will be happy to show it to you.
https://www.golfhomes.com/6048-curran-st-murrells-inlet-south-carolina-29576-p4324064.html