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Robbed of a semester of her sophomore year by a harrowing J. Crew accident, Jacqueline Rooney, last year’s women’s golf captain, is staying close to the women’s golf team as a volunteer assistant coach even though she is ineligible to compete...
Blustery conditions and a long course made for high scores and a disappointing finish for the men’s golf team this weekend at the ECAC Division I Championship at Shelter Harbor Golf Course in Charlestown, R.I. The Crimson sent five players to the tournament and finished ninth as a team out of the 14 squads competing. Harvard was led by sophomores Greg Shuman and Danny Mayer, who both posted two-round scores of 154 to tie with others for 28th in a 70-man field. Shuman shot a 1-over 72 on Saturday before posting an 11-over...
...everyone is as bullish. "Overall there has been a slowdown to golf communities," says Doug Main, director of national golf practice for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services in Atlanta. He adds that "the tide has dropped a little even in [the high-end] markets. That doesn't mean there aren't pockets and projects that are exceptions to the norm." Main says there has been a trend toward a more tranquil setting: "That's why there's a couple of clubs like [the Cliffs]--and to a different degree out in Montana and others--where it's really an experience...
...which are nestled in the southern escarpment of the Appalachian mountain range from just north of Greenville, S.C., up to Asheville, N.C. Anthony says that having a known designer adds both value and a comfort level for buyers: "People perceive, and rightly so, that if this is a Fazio golf course, a Nicklaus golf course, that quality runs all through the community." There are two Nicklaus signature courses, two Tom Fazio layouts and one each by Ben Wright and Tom Jackson and another designed by Gary Player, currently under construction at the Cliffs at Mountain Park...
Player and Nicklaus are also playing the real estate side of the fairways. Gary Player Estates is a gated enclave of 100 homes in the $4 million range within the already gated enclave of the Cliffs at Mountain Park. Nicklaus Manor at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla., will feature 33 homes, from $2 million. "There are certain people for whom money is no object," says Ken Costanzo, president of Gary Player Real Estate. "Their only concern is getting the right house in the right place." Say, Tiger's place...