Vermont is a great place to visit -- and to play golf -- in the summer and fall. A few years ago, while visiting my daughter and her family in late summer and autumn, I played 10 golf courses in...
In my latest newsletter, Home On The Course, I speculated that the market for golf community homes was changing rapidly, and that the pandemic’s effects on real estate could last well beyond the end...
If you subscribe to my free, mostly-monthly newsletter, you already know that I am a fan of the state of Vermont. So too are skiers, maple syrup lovers and craft beer worshipers. But no one retires to a...
If you want a great place for a summer vacation, I heartily recommend Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. My wife and I are staying in a small cabin on the lake outside St. Albans, about 15 minutes from...
A round of golf this past Monday in rural Vermont was a good reminder that a golfing lifestyle does not always mean life in a planned golf community. While visiting our daughter in St. Albans, VT,...
I brought the clubs with me on a visit to see our daughter in northern Vermont this past holiday weekend and was able to play 18 at the Champlain Country Club in Swanton, whose logo features a...
I attended a golf outing at Dorset Field Club yesterday. Located in the charming little town of Dorset, VT, Dorset Field Club claims to be the oldest continuing operated golf course in the U.S. The story...
There are plenty of good reasons to visit Burlington, VT. The restaurants are outstanding, almost all of them serving food grown on local farms. Downtown Burlington's Church Street is a mall,...
In a few weeks, or sooner, northern New England golf courses will start to close down for the winter. Their golf pros' thoughts will turn to skiing -- or perhaps a winter in balmy Florida. But...
I wrote yesterday about The Links at Lang Farm, an exquisite little short course in impeccable shape, directly across the street from The Essex, which bills itself as "Vermont's Culinary Resort &...
Serious golfers generally disdain nine hole and short "executive" courses. Guilty as charged. Eighteen is the only round number for us when it comes to a round of golf, and any 18-hole course...
Global Position Systems have two main purposes: Get you where you want to go, and suggest places to go that you might not know about. While driving through New Hampshire and Vermont this week, I set...