Links Living: The Enclave at Kingsmill
Tucked inside Kingsmill Resort, this exclusive new neighborhood offers resort-style living, three golf courses, and puts you within walking distance of historic Williamsburg, Va. Back in 1607, when the first English sailing ships explored the James River, they nearly chose this land (before ending up at Jamestown) as the first English settlement in America. But […]
Links Living: BallenIsles Country Club
Rich in golf history and best-in-class amenities, this private club community in the heart of Florida’s Palm Beaches keeps raising the bar for excellence Few private clubs can boast a history over the last half-century as rich as BallenIsles Country Club. In a region abundant with premier golf communities, BallenIsles was honored as the 2021 […]
6 Trends in the Private Golf Community Industry
What’s trending now—and what could be next at your private golf community Putting Parks As the popularity of large-scale putting courses has risen at golf resorts across the country, it has become a trend among private golf communities, too. Boot Ranch’s 34-acre Practice Park is complemented by the largest green in Texas: Opened in 2017, […]
How to Choose the Best Golf and Ski Community for You
Love to golf and love to ski? Quite a few communities will satisfy both those passions. Here’s how to choose the best one for you. “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” So said John Muir, the Scottish-American naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club. Muir spoke of mountains as “recreational playgrounds for the […]
Young Members Are Flocking to Luxury Golf Communities
As more and more younger members make luxury golf communities their primary residence, clubs are responding with new amenities—and a new attitude With three new neighbors in their early 50s, Dave Short sees the change at Reynolds Lake Oconee almost every day. These recent homeowners aren’t retirees: They all still travel for work. But they’ve […]
Two Days at The Landings Club
You’d think that after spending two days playing two different golf courses—one being host to a yearly Korn Ferry Tour event—dining at Arnie’s Tavern (named after The King himself) next to a third course, taking a trip to a riverside marina, and touring the 52,000-square-foot wellness center that I would have seen just about all […]
Fractional Ownership: Great Golf Living at a Fraction of the Price
The day started with an early-morning beach bike ride on Kiawah Island. After that, a bucket-list tee time on the Ocean Course, the most celebrated of the seven golf courses on the South Carolina island. My kids and I hit the pool just steps from the ocean later that afternoon, then ventured out to the […]
Red Ledges: Worth the Wait
They couldn’t have picked a nicer place—or a worse time—to launch a golf community. Red Ledges, located along the back range of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains less than an hour from Salt Lake City and 15 minutes past Park City, began selling real estate around a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in 2007. Which, if you don’t remember, was just as a […]
Golf Communities Giving Back
Membership in a private golf community is a pretty good sign someone has done well. But before you think these fortunate folks don’t appreciate what they have, consider that philanthropy is alive and thriving at many private clubs across the country. Since 2003, the Long Cove Fund (made up of members of Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island, S.C., the […]
Private Aviation: The Only Way to Fly
For well over two decades, many homeowners have arrived at the Mountain Air community in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina by plane, landing their personal propeller aircraft—Pipers, Cessnas, and Cirruses—at the highest private runway east of the Mississippi. At an elevation of 4,600 feet, the paved airstrip is steps from the retreat’s country club and sits between several holes of a ruggedly […]