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Of unique communities, Mountain Air is up there
You just don't see this every day on a golf course, as you do at Mountain Air. I won't easily forget the day I spent 18 months ago at Mountain Air near Burnsville, NC, just about 35 minutes...
High life, Low Country: Choice living, best golf on Grand Strand is south of Myrtle Beach
They may not be building more railroads, but Pete Dye is keeping the railroad tie manufacturers in business. He uses them to advantage at DeBordieu. NOTE: A technical glitch sent this two part...
Myrtle Beach's South Strand continued...
This is the second part of an updated review that was mistakenly 'buried' on the site earlier this week. We repeat it here and apologize to those for whom this might be a repetition. The Reserve's...
Review: Porters Neck, Wilmington, NC
In just the last year, Porters Neck's Tom Fazio designed course has gone from good to excellent thanks to the investments the club made. (Photo courtesy of Porters Neck) It is a challenging and...
Knoxville's Avalon inexpensive, not cheap, with good Joe Lee golf course
The Landmark course features 89 traps and houses well out of range of stray shots. Avalon might seem an odd name for a golf course community. In medieval romance, it was an island paradise of...
Going blind: Unseen hazards on Reems Creek course, but community casts sharp eye on middle market
High point: You can see most of the layout, community and Blue Ridge Mountains from the highest elevations of the Reems Creek golf course. Reems Creek does not provide the sleek, sophisticated...
Notes on golf at The Landings
Yesterday in this space we reviewed The Landings at Skidaway Island, just outside of Savannah, GA. The private, gated community provides as much quality golf as any non-resort in the southeast. Today we...
Whole-in-one community: Savannah's The Landings loaded with amenities, six courses
Arthur Hills' Palmetto Course often invites you to take the short way home, but beware. We had dropped into the golf community version of Apocalypse Now. The daily cart invasion along the roads of...
Cedar Creek's "affordable" doesn't mean cheap
Cedar Creek, arguably the most "modest" of the three Aiken-area communities we have visited, pitches itself as unpretentious, less full of itself and a better value than its local rivals...
Woodside Plantation sports three courses, a security gate and shopping at back door
With three golf courses within its gates and a mall just outside, Woodside Plantation offers the most "rounded" living experience of the Aiken golf communities. The golf courses carry prestige names...
Aiken in your heart?
Genteel horse country life beats at murmur level Augusta National is hosting the Masters golf tournament this weekend, and the city of Augusta, GA, cannot accommodate all the players, their families...