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Developers Gonna Develop, So Let’s get Real about Golf Course Flexibility

Hal Phillips — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:20:06 +0000

This story in The New York Times, published mid-February 2024, struck a chord. Not because I’m a golfer, but because I’ve written quite a lot about abandoned golf courses, the re-wilding of courses, even the resuscitation of courses gone fallow. As long ago as 1994, the NYT has even seen fit to quote me on […]

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Sable Oaks is No More. Over the Mock Cheers, I Will Defend Her…

Hal Phillips — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:33:42 +0000

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (April 27, 2019) — Golf course closures typically elicit howls of indignation and despair, as locals countenance their stark, newly diminished reality. Still, it’s fair to wonder exactly how the public golfing population here in Southern Maine processed the news, received here late in January, that Sable Oaks Golf Club would not […]

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