GCH Network e-News
Communities On the Water & the Golf Course
January 10, 2025 – January 12, 2025
TODAY’S HEADLINES
> Getaways & Stay ‘n’ Plays – Visit Southern Hills Plantation, FL
> What’s Going On At…
- Watch Eagle Hatch at Dataw Island, SC
- Youth Championship at Sea Pines Resort, SC
NEW GCH COMMUNITIES!
Hampton Lake, Bluffton, SC, has recently joined the Golf Course Home Network. This private, lakefront community is one of 10 new communities in five states to have joined the GCH Network this year or are coming on board in January 2025. (Hampton Lake can also be viewed on Water View Home.)
See the list below along with links connecting you to their Featured Community page and important community information about amenities, real estate, visit packages and more.
Virginia
> Governor’s Land at Two Rivers, Williamsburg, VA – READ MORE
> Ford’s Colony, Williamsburg, VA – READ MORE
> Colonial Heritage, Williamsburg, VA – READ MORE
FLORIDA
> Southern Hills Plantation, Brooksville, FL – READ MORE
North Carolina
> Burlingame Country Club, Sapphire READ MORE
> St. James Plantation, Southport, NC – READ MORE
SOUTH CAROLINA
> New! Hampton Lake, Bluffton, SC – READ MORE
> New! Latitude Margaritaville Hilton Head, Hardeeville – READ MORE
> Riverton Pointe, Hardeeville, SC – READ MORE
New Jersey
> New! Westlake Golf & CC, Jackson, NJ – READ MORE
HOMES FOR SALE THIS WEEK ON GCH
> Sailfish Point, FL 2BR Ocean View Condo $1,850,000
> Callawassie Island, SC Golf View 3BR, Fireplace $850,000
> Indian River Colony Club, FL Golf & Pond View 3BR $390,000
> Ford’s Colony, VA 3BR, Screened Porch $639,000
COMMUNITY NEWS
> New! 2024 GCH Annual Index
> Murder Mystery at Lake Arrowhead, GA
> Eagles on Camera at Dataw Island, SC
> Small Business Event at Hampton Lake, SC
> Engineers Host Ford’s Colony, VA Event
Golf Retirement Planner
> Top 5 Reasons to Retire to Westlake Golf & CC
> See All the Articles in the Golf Retirement Planner
> Retire Lake Arrowhead, GA – Top 10 Reasons
> Retire to Harbour Ridge, FL – Top 10 Reasons
> Top 10 Reasons to Retire to Savannah Lakes Village, SC
GETAWAYS and STAY ‘n’ PLAYS
Visit Southern Hills Plantation, FL
Southern Hills Plantation, FL: Stay in luxury villa, golf and more.
> Southern Hills Plantation, Brooksville FL offers two ways to learn what the community, site of the PGA Tour’s prestigious Valspar Championship, is all about. Visit for 3 days/2 nights and tour the community and its homes with a community representative or agent, or you can come for a single day with privileges as a Member for a Day and enjoy a guided tour.
Stay in a luxury villa and play 18 holes of golf, spend time at the the club pool complex and sample additional Southern Hills amenities. Price for a 2BR / 2BA villa is $250 per night while the 4BR /4 BA villa option, ideal for a visiting foursome, runs $450 per night. Send me more information about Southern Hills Plantation!
WHAT’S GOING ON AT…
Watch Eagle Hatch at Dataw Island, SC
Dataw Island, SC: Watch eagle hatch on camera.
> Dataw Island, SC and the resident volunteers who staff the Dataw Island Conservancy are anticipating the hatching of a bald eagle chick in a nest on Conservancy land very early in 2025. In early December the community’s live “eagle cam” recorded the laying of her first egg by the nesting pair’s female.
A bald eagle egg typically takes 35 days to incubate, followed by a hatching process that can require as long as three full days, so mid-January is the expected time period when people can watch the Dataw eaglet emerge on camera. Send me more information about Dataw Island!
Youth Championship at Sea Pines Resort, SC
Sea Pines Resort, SC: Hosts championship Feb. 1-2.
> Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head Island SC will be the host site of a high-profile youth golf championship featuring a world-class field on the weekend of Feb. 1-2. The event is the prestigious Junior Heritage, contested on a pair of Sea Pines Resort golf courses, Atlantic Dunes by Davis Love III on Saturday and Harbour Town Golf Links on Sunday.
The Junior Heritage has a rich history of world-class golf with a list of champions that includes Paula Creamer, Charles Howell III, Brittany Lang, Sean O’Hair, Kyle Stanley and Alexis Thompson. Send me more information about Sea Pines!
