Archives of Home on the Course Newsletters
These are the previous issues of the Home on the Course newsletter. Issues are posted here in the month following the issue distribution date. To receive our monthly newsletter, please subscribe here.
August 2021
The course layouts I have begun playing are more than 1,000 yards shorter than those on the PGA Tour. And, yet, the approach shots I am hitting to greens are struck with pretty much the same...
April 2021
It is always hard to predict the direction of the U.S. housing market, but it seems like a good bet that the current shortages of homes for sale across the country, and especially in the Southeast, will not...
March 2021
Renting may be coming of age for retirees who want a simpler life on their “back nine.” More and more developers have jumped on the “build to rent” bandwagon, giving Baby Boomers a solid alternative to...
February 2021
Golf community homes are on fire in the South. No, not forest fires but hot market fires, the kind that come along once in a generation when the gulf between supply and demand seems like an ocean. That...
January 2021
Apologies for being a little late with this month’s issue. Unusual for Home On The Course, there is nothing about golf real estate this month and I mention only one golf community. But it is a...
December 2020
You might have resented being told, “Go play with someone your own age” when you were young. Well, what goes round comes round, and past the age of 50, that can be pretty good advice. This month, I...
October/November 2020
Woodside, Aiken, SC Gone with the Wind: Golf Communities Dropping “Plantation” from Names What’s in a name? When it comes to universities, towns, sports teams and, yes, even some golf communities,...
August-September 2020
Covid-19 has had a strange effect on property sales in golf communities, but it isn’t what you’d expect. Learn more this month in Home On The Course. The best information web sites are those that...