Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- 'Spectacular' Golf Homes For Sale
- "Top Ten Real Estate Deals," a self-described independent web site, is featuring what it considers America's 10 Most Spectacular Golf Homes. Have a look here. Some are nicer than others. In a few, the decor...
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- Buyer's Market For Golfers In Ireland
- Thorough overview of the private golf club market in Ireland in today's Irish Times. Having made a couple of golf trips to Ireland over the years, I must admit I never thought of Ireland as...
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- Tiger's Dubai Project On Hold
- Tiger Woods Dubai, a sprawling resort complex that was to include the first golf course design by the world's No. 1 golfer, has hit a wall. Plans to open the course this fall have been...
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- Union Deal At The Greenbrier
- Unions at the Greenbrier have reached agreements with the West Virginia golf resort that should allow it to be sold a unit of Marriott, the AP is reporting. The agreements now have to be approved...
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- Yale Farm Drops Out
- Yale Farm, the proposed Connecticut golf club that was in the works for seven years, is dead. Developer Roland Betts and his partners revealed their decision to kill the hotly contested project in a letter...
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- Trump Aberdeen Update
- Been wondering what's up with Donald Trump's big Scottish golf resort? It has been a while since we last wrote about it, so let's check in with the Scotsman newspaper.The latest from Aberdeen: Trump and...
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- Promontory: 'Everyone is Confused'
- Utah's high-end Promontory Club, site of golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus and Pete Dye, held its court-supervised auction yesterday and attracted only two bidders -- Pivotal Group (the original lender) and Credit Suisse, which...
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- Arizona Pick-Me-Up
- Hats off to the Arizona Republic and its occasional feature, "The Valley's Priciest Home Sales." It never fails to remind us how some people, at least, are spending a lot of money on golf course...
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- Chicago Hope
- John Baxter, who tells the Chicago Tribune he doesn't carry a handicap, hasn't kept score for 10 years and claims four holes in one (two on mulligans), is pushing ahead with plans for a...
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- Update: Mesa Voters Approve Resort
- Yesterday I posted an item about the massive Gaylord Entertainment golf resort/convention center planned for Mesa, Ariz. The issue went before Mesa voters Tuesday and they voted overwhelmingly in favor of the tax incentives...
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- Nicklaus Project On Hold
- Aberdeenshire, site of the big Donald Trump development in Scotland, was to have another new golf resort as well -- this one with a Jack Nicklaus-designed course and more than 200 homes. But it...
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- Spending On Seabrook
- At at time when many if not most clubs are tightening the reigns on spending, South Carolina's Seabrook Island is moving ahead with a $30 million makeover. Here is a report on the project...
