
Bunkers, Burgers, and Everything In-between
Dear BoBirdie Readers, It’s been a bodacious year! All summer, I drove up and down the Shenandoah Valley, stopping at every golf course I’d heard

Buying a Golf Home in a Battle Zone
A flying golf ball is a dangerous weapon, and if a glass window, aluminum siding, or your head gets in its way, the golf ball

Uncle Buster
All too often, golf gets dismissed as a stuffy game for big-wigs in suits. That characterization has always bothered me—sure, that scene is a part

Capon Springs and the Lost Barrel Brewery
On a cool spring day in March, I met up with Jonathan Bellingham and Sam Busey at the entrance of Capon Springs. It’s a beautiful

Moving and Grooving with Nicole
Moving and Grooving with Nicole.on.the.go As Nicole.on.the.go, Nicole Cooper is all about inspiring women to be on the move, to be active, and to participate

Being in the Right Place Twice
Tacos and Tee Boxes/A Perfect Day/Good Timing I got a hole in one at Locust Hill. It was my first time playing there, and the

Pop’s Ice Cream and Soda Bar
Within the Shenandoah Valley is the city of Roanoke. Within the city of Roanoke is a community named Grandin Village. And there in the village

Simple game. Complicated people.
Golf. One word. Four letters. Fourteen clubs. A little white ball. But golf is so much more than that to so many people. As Tom

Woodbrier Halloween Tourney
“It’s All Family Here” – Pumpkins and Pool Cues at Woodbrier’s Halloween Tourney My first time visiting the Woodbrier Golf Course, I found a muscular

How the Veteran Golfers Association Creates Community
There are all kinds of careers in the golf world—unsurprising, given that the sport is an 84 billion-dollar-a-year industry. Amid that massive economy revolving around

George Pace The Music Man
Everybody at Bryce Resort knows George. Granted, he’s hard to miss—technicolored button-up shirts, puffing thick cigars in-hand. And even if you somehow miss him on

The Blue Stone Inn
Driving home from a day golfing at Bryce, a resort tucked away in plain sight just off I-81 and Route 11, I decided it was