Golf Course Homes in Haymarket - Homes in Piedmont - Holes 7-9

Golf Course Homes in Haymarket - Homes in Piedmont - Holes 7-9.

Looking for golf course homes in Haymarket VA or Golf Homes in Piedmont? Take a look at the golf homes in Piedmont. Here you will find the home of the Piedmont Golf Club with a Tom Fazio designed 18 hole championship course. The golf homes in Piedmont offer excellent views on most of Piedmont's 18 holes. Today we will look at the golf course homes in Piedmont on holes 4-6.

Hole 7, a hard par 4, WATCH OUT, FOOORE RIGHT!!! Hole 7 has golf course homes down both sides of the fairway, starting at the tee box all the way to the green, and almost all have very nice views. The golf homes on the right from about 225 yards to 130 yards to the green get hit pretty often, especially during golf seasons or large golf outings. The golf homes on the right from @ 130 yards and in are pretty safe, doesn't mean they have never been hit, but they are setback a great amount. The golf homes down the left of the 7th hole are set back a good amount and are mostly out of play. They will find an occasional ball or two in their yards in peak season though.

Hole 8, a good par 5, has golf homes on the right side from tee to green. These golf course homes and golf course townhomes have great views overlooking the 8th hole and 2nd, 3rd & 9th holes, depending on where along the 8th hole their golf home is. But, being on the right side, the homes from 200-275 yards off the blue or gold tees are most in play and can get somewhat often in season. I've even see a ball or two hit OVER the homes! Golf townhomes start at about 180yards from the green While the golf townhomes are somewhat protected buy trees a number of balls do get though and hit them. The townhomes closest to the green are the safest.

Hole 9, the #1 handicap hole & a par 4, offers great views of the9th holes AND holes 1 & 2 and parts of holes 3 & 8. Unfortunately these townhouses probably get hit more than any other golf homes in Piedmont. The townhouses start around 240 yards from the blue/golf tee box and run all the way to the green on the right side. The first 4 townhouses get hit most often with the first 2 being the main recipient. When playing the white or the modified blue tee boxes, the townhouses a little father up from 200 - 100 yards from the green come into play. The townhomes 100 yards and in are much safer because they are blocked by large pines, but can still be hit fairly easily with a bad 2nd shot.

Stayed tuned for holes 10-12 of golf homes in Piedmont. This information should be helpful if you are looking for golf homes in Piedmont, Haymarket, VA. After golf homes in Piedmont, we will look at golf homes in Dominion Valley.

Golf Course Homes in Haymarket - Homes in Piedmont - Holes 4-6

Golf Course Homes in Haymarket - Homes in Piedmont - Holes 4-6.

Looking for golf course homes in Haymarket VA or Golf Homes in Piedmont? Take a look at the golf homes in Piedmont. Here you will find the home of the Piedmont Golf Club with a Tom Fazio designed 18 hole championship course. The golf homes in Piedmont offer excellent views on most of Piedmont's 18 holes. Today we will look at the golf course homes in Piedmont on holes 4-6.

Hole 4, a par 3, has golf homes behind the tee box and along the entire left side. While the 2 or 3 golf homes closest to the green have a few balls find their house or backyard, most balls find the bunker or water to the right of the green. The golf course homes on Hole 4 have some of the best views of the Piedmont Golf Club course because of the lake behind the hole.

Hole 5, a par 4, has golf homes on the left starting at the tee box down the left fairway to about 100 yards from the green and down the entire right side. The tee box homes offer the best view as the green for the 4th hole and the lake can still be seen. The golf homes past the tee are blocked by many trees - though they can still be hit with a bad hook or snap hook of the tee. The golf course homes on the right of Hole 5 are set back a good amount and are unlikely to get hit, though their yards are in play for a wicked slice or push slice drive.

Hole 6, a par 3, has only about 4 homes on the left of it, all with very nice views of the hole. The hole only plays 158 yards from the blue tees but a wicked snap hook can hit the last 2 golf homes on the left. With the new blue and gold tee box the homes are pretty much out of play, except for, again, a very bad hook. Thank God 98% of golfers slice the ball! Another good thing about the golf homes in Piedmont on the 6th hole is that they are on a cul-de-sac.

Stayed tuned for holes 7-9 of golf homes in Piedmont. This information should be helpful if you are looking for golf homes in Piedmont, Haymarket, VA. I will follow up shortly with holes 10-18 of golf homes in Piedmont.

Golf Course Homes in Haymarket - Homes in Piedmont - Holes 1-3

Looking for golf course homes in Haymarket VA or Golf Homes in Piedmont?

Take a look at the golf homes in Piedmont. Here you will find the home of the Piedmont Golf Club with a Tom Fazio designed 18 hole championship course. The golf homes in Piedmont offer excellent views on most of Piedmont's 18 holes. Today we will look at the golf course homes in Piedmont on holes 1-3.

Holes 1 and 2, both short par 4's, of the Piedmont Golf Club do not have any golf homes on them. The townhouses (townhomes) on holes 8 & 9 do offer a view of holes 1, 2 and part of 3.

Hole 3, a par 5, has a few golf homes on it starting about 200 yards from the green. The homes are on the left side of the fairway and are set back a good bit from the cart path. They are basically out of play.

Stayed tuned for holes 4-6 of golf course homes in Piedmont.

This information should be helpful if you are looking for golf homes in Piedmont, Haymarket, VA. I will follow up shortly with holes 10-18 of golf homes in Piedmont.

Did they pay Golf in Haymarket?

Couple from Virginia plays golf in all 50 states! Did that play Piedmont Golf Club in Haymarket VA or Dominion Valley Country Club in Haymarket VA?

Around the U.S.A.

By Teresa Dunham
The Winchester Star

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Winchester — Kaleen Baker will never forget how silly her husband looked with a golf bag on his head in the pouring rain.

She and her husband, Paul Baker, were at a golf course in Billings, Mont., in April when the downpour came.

Paul didn’t have a hood, but he wasn’t about to let that stop him from finishing the course. After all, he and Kaleen had a lofty goal — to golf in all 50 states.

Their goal sent them on quite an adventure, enduring a delay in their round in Alaska because of frost and encountering a baby alligator around the seventh hole in South Carolina.

Now, seven years after the wild idea first popped into their heads, the Winchester residents finally completed their quest in November at a little golf course in California.

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Kaleen decided to study up on golf after her husband retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1992.

"When he retired, I knew we needed something I could do together with him," said Kaleen, 63, a former school teacher.

They started taking their golf clubs on vacation with them — and soon they hatched the idea of golfing in all 50 states.

Kaleen and Paul Baker look over photos of their golfing trips to all 50 states. They took a picture of themselves at each of golf courses they played. They played the final round in their 50-state tour on Nov. 8 in Blythe, Calif. (Ginger Perry)

"It was kind of a lark at first, and then we got serious when we started making a notebook," said Kaleen.

Their scrapbook contains a score card from each course, along with a picture of either Paul or Kaleen playing at every locale.

They tried to position a sign with the golf course names somewhere in the pictures to prove that they were really there.

A quick flip through the scrapbook confirms that the couple did indeed visit all 50 states — and they’ve even alphabetized their momentos, from Alabama to Wyoming.

"It really brings back neat memories," said Kaleen.

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The Bakers didn’t take a slap-dash approach to their golf tour.

"We didn’t just take off from the house. We did a lot of planning," said 64-year-old Paul.

They started by reading Fodor’s "Golf Digest’s Places to Play" and mapping out the appropriate Choice Hotels to stay at.

"It’s amazing how many golf courses are in the U.S.," said Paul, adding that there are about 600 courses in Michigan alone.

They focused on municipal courses to keep the cost down, and they also made the trips coincide with visits to family members out West.

"We found out there are some really nice municipal courses," said Kaleen.

The challenge of golfing in all 50 states is that Paul and Kaleen weren’t familiar with the courses beforehand.

"When you don’t know, it’s really easy to hit the ball into the water, the woods, or the sand traps," said Paul.

Of course, he and Kaleen never claimed to be great golfers.

"We’re duffers for sure. We’re not super-duper golfers," she said. "We didn’t go out there to break all records as far as score goes."

Typically, he shoots in the 90s and her score is around 115.

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The most inexpensive course they visited — the $8 Back Nine Golf Course in Danville, Ill. — was also the most disappointing one.

"It was the saddest-looking thing," Kaleen said, adding that they had to pull a wobbly cart around the course.

Most of the courses they saw were impressive though, especially a Scottish-style course called Highland Green in Topsham, Maine.

"The greens were the best we’d ever seen. It was like walking on an unbelievably perfect green carpet," Kaleen said.

The Canyon Springs course in Twin Falls, Idaho, was also a sight to behold.

"I kept going ohh, ahh because there’s a big waterfall coming down in one area," said Kaleen.

The wildlife was also a big highlight of certain courses.

"We had to wait for the deer to move off the fairway," Kaleen said of the Salt Fork Golf Course in Ohio, adding that the rugged terrain made cleats advisable.

As for the baby alligator that came dangerously close at the Beaufort Country Club in South Carolina, Kaleen admits that she’d been warned.

"When we left Winchester, somebody said to watch out for the alligators. I thought he was joking," she said.

Though the animals occasionally presented a challenge, the weather was generally cooperative.

They only had to play in two strong rains — but they were never rained out.

Their hottest round was on June 17, 2003, at the Kenny Rapier Golf Course in Old Kentucky Home State Park.

"That was before we went up to the Jim Beam Distillery," Paul said.

The Kentucky heat was quite a contrast to their experience at the Anchorage Moose Run Golf Course in Alaska on Sept. 3, 2002.

That’s when they experienced their frost delay.

Yet one of the most unforgettable experiences was golfing in Kaleen’s old hometown at the Shelby County Golf Course in Iowa.

She remembers helping her dad bale hay on the same land where the course now stands.

Closer to home, they chose the Williamsburg National Golf Club in Virginia right after a PGA Seniors tournament.

"We pretended we were in the tournament," Kaleen said.

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Amid their golf travels, the Bakers managed to pack in lots of sight-seeing.

They saw the former London Bridge from England that is now located in Arizona, and they toured the National Corvette Factory and Museum in Kentucky.

In Texas, they ate in a restaurant made out of a cotton gin.

"We’ve seen so many different things along the way," said Kaleen.

They finished all 50 states in November when they were visiting Kaleen’s sister in Phoenix.

While there, they drove 160 miles to their last course — the Blythe Municipal Golf Course in Blythe, Calif. — on Nov. 8.

Now that the journey is over, the Bakers are proud of their accomplishment.

"We set a goal, and we did it," said Kaleen as she gave Paul a high-five in their kitchen recently.

They’re both a little sad that the journey is over — but they plan to keep golfing.

"We’ll probably go back. I figure we’re not going to stop," said Kaleen.

Piedmont Golf Club
Haymarket Virginia
www.piedmontclub.com

Dominion Valley Country Club
Haymarket Virginia
www.dominionvalley.com

HAYMARKET SAC Winter Program Alert

HAYMARKET SAC Winter Program Alert

For all parents in Haymarket and PW County - SAC (School Age Care) will operate their program for 3 days during the winter break, December 26-28. applications are available at www.pwcgov.org/sacare or call703-792-6091.



Haymarket, VA
Haymarket Virginia

Christmas Card Arrives 93 Years Late - Sent from Haymarket Virginia??

The new post of in Haymarket Virginia seems to be running smoothly, but just in case, you may want to send those "must arrive on time" cards by express!

Christmas Card Arrives 93 Years Late

OBERLIN, Kan. (AP) - A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.

The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.

It's a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It's surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don't know."

Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.

That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.

"That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."

The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin - the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said.

"We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."

Haymarket Virginia Soccer Players

For all the soccer players in Haymarket Virginia, here are some great clips you are sure to enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzo0In6JblU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_lqMi4ykxg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGXc2lserA

To all the soccer kids of Haymarket Virginia, the Spring season will be here before you know it. Be sure to kick the ball around a little bit so you're not too rusty when the first practice begins. Try some of the moves you see in the videos above.

Congrats from Haymarket Virginia to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons who won the 2007 NCAA Mens College Cup!

homes for sale in Haymrket Virginia Update

homes for sale in Haymarket Virginia Update:

As of today, there are 305 homes for sale in Haymarket Virginia. That is 3 less homes for sale in Haymarket than my previous post on the 13th. There are currently 27 homes for sale in Piedmont and 3 homes Piedmont are "Under Contract." The is 1 less home for sale in Piedmont and the same number of homes in Piedmont "Under Contract" than on my previous post on the 13th. There are currently 17 homes for sale in Dominion Valley and only 1 home in Dominion Valley "Under Contract." Of the 17 homes in Dominion Valley for sale, only 4 are listed by Realtors, the other 13 are by Toll Brothers, the builder of all homes in Dominion Valley. This is the same total of homes for sale in Dominion Valley, but 1 less by the builder and 1 more listed by a Realtor. It is also 1 less home in Dominion Valley "Under Contract."

There are currently 36 rental properties available in Haymarket, with 8 being in Piedmont and 0 in Dominion Valley.

Both Piedmont and Dominion Vally are Gated communities in Haymarket. Piedmont is home to the Piedmont Golf Club and Dominion Valley is home to the Dominion Valley Country Club.
Membership to either the Piedmont Golf Club or the Dominion Valley Country Club is not required and does not come with a purchase of a house in either community. Memberships are sold seperately.


Disclaimer:
The number for homes for sale in Haymarket are from MRIS and are deemed accuracte at the time of this post. However, sales can happen at any point and the numbers may change by the time this post is read. The number of homes for sale in Haymarket also does not reflect and FSBO's.

The number for homes for sale in Piedmont are from MRIS and are deemed accuracte at the time of this post. However, sales can happen at any point and the numbers may change by the time this post is read. The number of homes for sale in Piedmont also does not reflect and FSBO's.

The number for homes for sale in Dominion Valley are from MRIS and are deemed accuracte at the time of this post. However, sales can happen at any point and the numbers may change by the time this post is read. The number of homes for sale in Dominion Valley also does not reflect and FSBO's.

ATTN: Superbowl fans in Haymarket & Gainesville

Todays' Totally Useless Fact:

In the USA - more toilets flush at the half time of the Super Bowl than at any other time of the year.

That means about 5000-7000 toilets in Haymarket will be flushing. I hope Haymarket sewage system can handle it!

It also means that most viewers actually missed Janet Jackson's breast. Oh the shame!! Then again, if they weren't going to the bathroom they were probably changing channels anyway! When will they realize nobody watches the halftime show?

Golf in Haymarket - Piedmont Golf Club, Dominion Valley and more...

When people think of Haymarket, Golf generally isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But in reality, there are several great golf courses in Haymarket or just a couple miles from Haymarket. First is the Piedmont Golf Club - A great Tom Fazio layout with his signature bunkers everywhere and fast greens. the other main golf course is Dominion Valley Country Club - An Arnold Palmer Signature design course with wide fairways and slowish green. A lot of great holes at Piedmont and Dominion Valley. When the wind is blowing, both courses will play 3-5 strokes harder, maybe more! A great public golf course in Haymarket is Bull Run. A great layout with AMAZING views and wonderful layout!!! Definitely the most picturesque. There are currently no homes on the golf course but they are selling 3 acres homesites. The past few years Bull Run wasn't in great shape, but there is now a new owner and he has been working to get the course back to a condition worthy of its layout and surroundings! Just a couple miles away in Gainesville are Robert Trent Jones (RTJ), the ULTRA exclusive home of The President's Cup and Stonewall, a great public course with an awesome layout just across the lake from RTJ.

Finally there is Evergreen Country Club in Haymarket and Heritage Hunt in Gainesville - both private courses worth playing.

If you are looking to buy a house of the golf course, be sure to read my article about Living on the Course at www.haymarketforsale.com.

Hit 'em straight! and 98% of putts left short do not go in!!

Money Stashed in Bathroom Walls in Haymarket??

Now don't go tearing down your walls just yet!!

Contractor Feuds With Homeowner Over $500k Money Find in Bathroom Wall

Another reason to move to Haymarket, besides Piedmont and Dominion Valley!

A good reason to move to Haymarket! - NO KILLER MYSTERY BEASTS running around!

While South Carolina is world renowned for their wonderful golf courses, they now have mystery beasts to deal with. Up until now, the main scare for South Carolinians and golfers everywhere in SC were alligators. I haven't seen anything similar in Haymarket, at least not yet!

Mystery Beast Kills Animals in S.C.

BOLIVIA, N.C. (AP) - An unknown predator mauled a pit bull and killed two puppies in Brunswick County, and residents fear it's the same animal that killed three dogs in September. No one has reported ever seeing the animal.

The county's animal control agency investigated the animal's tracks, droppings and other clues but couldn't determine what attacked the dogs. Locals call the unknown animal the Beast of Bolivia.

Some residents and experts said the predator may be a bear, a wayward panther or cougar, or even a wolf because 3-inch paw tracks were found at the scene.

Many suggest the predator came from the nearby Faircloth Zoo, which had a lion and a tiger before it closed more than a year ago. Animal control officials said the animals were sent elsewhere.

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Information from: The Star-News, http://starnewsonline.com

Homes for Sale in Haymarket

Homes for sale in Haymarket update:

As of today, December 13, there are 308 homes in Haymarket for sale and another 18 under contract. There are 28 Homes for sale in Piedmont and 3 "Under Contract." There are 17 homes for sale in Dominion Valley, but only 3 show for sale by a Realtor, the others listed are Toll Brothers models or already built homes, and there are 2 homes in Dominion Valley "Under Contract."

There are currently 35 rental properties available in Haymarket, with 8 being in Piedmont and 0 in Dominion Valley.