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No other state in the east offers more in the way of golf community choices than does North Carolina, whose 500-mile length spans ocean to mountains with a fertile Piedmont region in between. Choose from among dozens of coastal golf communities, like Landfall, just a few miles from the exciting town of Wilmington and even closer to Wrightsville Beach; or Mountain Air (photo left), whose 4,000+ foot elevation will add a few yards to your golf shots; or any of the great choices near sophisticated cities, like Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way choices where bargain real estate abounds and the golf is excellent, such as the area between Hertford (Albemarle Plantation, Scotch Hall Preserve) and Greenville (Cypress Landing, Brook Valley); and the many top notch golf communities sprinkled throughout the western North Carolina mountains.
The Donald makes his case for The Point; our point is higher potential home values
For all we know, the direction of Donald Trump’s life might have taken an early turn in high school English class, courtesy of a famous quote by the poet William Blake: “The road to excess leads to the...
Doing Their Bidding: Foreclosed golf community attracting strong interest
In its pre-foreclosure days, the Tryon, NC golf community called White Oak couldn’t get itself noticed. Despite a terrific, yet unfinished golf course and an impressive 980 hilly acres, White Oak’s developers...
Playing the Angles: The toughest, craziest par 5 on Myrtle Beach’s Grand Strand
Members of most golf clubs have a hole on their golf courses that they love to hate. For those of us at Pawleys Plantation in Pawleys Island, SC, it is the short par 3 13th, with its tiny island...
Chapel Hill urban center puts you close to everything, including excellent golf
Who can argue with the concept of the “new urban center,” a community that puts all the bare necessities of life -– and some of its luxuries -– within walking distance of your home? In places like Market...
Point of Contention: Young Trump meets the press
The Trumps -– Donald and his son Eric –- are back in the game to purchase The Point Golf Club on Lake Norman, north of Charlotte. But after Eric Trump’s recent interview in the respected Charlotte...
Review: Rivers Edge, Shallotte, NC
The choice between joining a private or semi-private golf club boils down to how much “privacy” you are willing to pay for. Private clubs almost always cost more to join, and the monthly dues are...
Time runs out for White Oak developers
It was perhaps inevitable that a golf community opened just a couple of years before the housing bubble burst and with nothing to attract potential buyers except nine holes of an 18 hole golf...
Trump This: The Donald has a big week
If nature abhors a vacuum, Donald Trump positively loathes it. It has been weeks since The Donald insinuated himself onto the national scene. But in the last few days, Trump is back with a...
National Golf Club tames Nicklaus greens
Only the strong survive in the current golf industry, and Southern Pines, NC’s National Golf Club has plans to survive and thrive in the dog-eat-dog competition of the Pinehurst area of North...
The Donald doesn’t get The Point
Faster than you can say “You’re fired,” the Trump organization has given up on its bid to buy The Point Golf Club in Mooresville, NC, according to an online story in the local Mecklenburg Times...
Will club members at Point Golf Club near Charlotte bid “No Trump” on deal?
Donald Trump’s organization is attempting to purchase a lakeside golf community country club north of Charlotte, NC, and as in all public Trump dealings, the script reads, “There will be...
Zero down for $2 million golf home, a few years to pay (in state penitentiary)
It is one thing to dream of a luxury home in a golf community, with theater and game rooms, maybe a wine cellar, certainly a pool and let’s not leave out the Jacuzzi. It is quite another to pursue...