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What’s a Design Nerd to Think, “When Nines Don’t Match”?

Hal Phillips — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:44:14 +0000

[Ed. This piece appeared 25 years ago in a magazine called TravelGolf Maine founded by a fellow named Park Morrison. It didn’t last long (1998-2001) and, sadly, Park passed away last year, in 2023. I’m including the story here because surely it never made it online — and because it appeared, in print, under a […]

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Late-Nineties Flashback: The Great Maine Golf Development Binge

Hal Phillips — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:37:43 +0000

[Ed. This piece from 1998 was assigned and purchased by, but to my knowledge never appeared in, Downeast Magazine. At that time, the U.S. was opening 400 new golf facilities every year. Maine golf development was equally madcap. When I moved to New Gloucester that same year, only Fairlawn GC and Poland Spring existed nearby. […]

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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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