Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: golf

Scenes from a defunct golf course

It’s surprising how fast a golf course deteriorates when it gets minimal maintenance. That my home has a golf view is happenstance; my house came first by 20 years. But the course was built as a community with large homes much more expensive than mine. Imagine those homeowners’ shock early this year when they learned that the golf…

29 June 2016
Landing in the water hazard

My house isn’t much, just a little brick ranch, but I like it. The neighborhood is in slow decline, but it’s quiet. And all five times I’ve accidentally left my garage door up all day while I was at work, nobody robbed me blind. My house backs up to a golf course. Lest you think…

1 July 2013
Hook shots

I never found the golf ball that broke my kitchen window. It must have bounced into the back yard, its anonymity assured among all the other balls already on the ground. I live on a golf course. My backyard overlooks the 14th fairway. Please don’t think I’m living the high life in some swank golf…

20 September 2008