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Golf Courses are not Walmart: Are golf courses being driven out of the market?

With the end of another year come the hard figures from studies done on how the golf industry is surviving. From 1986 to 2005, the golf course industry grew at a robust 40 percent with almost 4,500 courses opening. But since 2006, with all of the economic hardships, including the real estate market plunge, more […]

Golf courses making changes to stay in business

For close to 90 years, the former Alcoma Golf Club in Penn Hills catered to a small clientele of private members who could play on a noncrowded course whenever they wanted and take long lunches sipping cocktails at the club house while they enjoyed the benefit of writing it all off as a tax deduction. […]

Golf courses can be best and worst neighbors

Twelve years ago Paul Kolinsky found the perfect lot to build a new home in east Orange County. Quiet street. Great schools. A two-story home with a spacious floor plan. But the real selling point, the reason Kolinsky paid a premium for his lot in EastWood, speaks for itself. “Here,” he said, gesturing toward large […]