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From 1995 to 2025

30 Years of Golf & Water-View Communities

GOLF COURSE HOME® was founded by David Lott in 1995, debuting in the fall as a special, pre-printed supplement in Inc. Magazine where it would appear on a regular basis for the next four years.

INC magazine insert
GCH cover on the INC. magazine insert.

During the previous 10 years, Lott had learned about the golf community industry writing special real estate and travel sections for Golf Digest, where he spent five years, and then writing for GOLF Magazine, LINKS, MET Golfer and various regional publications.

In November 1999, Golf Course Home completed a successful migration to the Internet and in doing so became a successful early adopter of web technology and the first website to be completely devoted to golf and water view real estate.

The following year WaterViewHome.net was launched to focus on communities with water views on lakes, rivers and oceans. Request More Information about GCH

Years of Rapid Growth

While many internet companies were launched and washed away in the dotcom bust of the early 2000s, Golf Course Home flourished. The site quickly became the go-to online resource for people looking to purchase homes and lots in golf and waterview communities for use as a vacation home, a second home or for a retirement residence.

In 2005, the company officially achieved Trademark status for the name ‘Golf Course Home.’

By 2009, Golf Course Home® had expanded to 40+ golf and water view community websites and became known as the Golf Course Home® Network (GCHN).

In 2013, changes to Google’s search algorithm resulted in the need to retire of many of the sites while pointing the domain names to GolfCourseHome.com or WaterViewHome.net, thereby maintaining their historical, and priceless, search value. Request More Information about GCH

Vineyard Open House Real Estate, Martha’s Vineyard

In 2013, GCHN Founder and Publisher David Lott established the real estate firm of Vineyard Open House Real Estate, LLC, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. The firm is a full-service real estate office for buyers and sellers as well as summer rentals.

The company website, VineyardOpenHouse.com , includes all island listings for sale via the island’s LINK system. Vineyard Open House has represented real estate buyers/sellers in transactions valued at more than $30 million since July 2014.

Vineyard Open House Real Estate joined the GCH Network in 2018 while also becoming an important part of the GCHN Luxury Property Referral Network which links Golf Course Home, Vineyard Open House Real Estate and luxury resort brokers across the U.S. Request More Information

Golf Course Home® Network Mission

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Provide online resource for people looking to purchase homes and lots in golf course communities and waterview communities for use as a vacation home, a second home or for a retirement residence. The Golf Course Home Network provides key information about world-class, master-planned amenity and country club communities in the U.S. and the world.
Provide golf and waterview community marketers the greatest exposure to motivated buyers online and to channel leads to communities via Internet exposure, hot links, Social Media, press releases and e-newsletters.

Design, photography and editorial are held to the highest standards to create a top-quality editorial environment that delivers solid information that buyers can use in their selection of potential properties to visit. Clients can expect highly attentive, personal service directed to their key goals–impacting their core markets, generating quality leads and selling property. Send me more information about GCH

Lott Custom Communications, LLC

The Golf Course Home® Network is operated by Lott Custom Communications, LLC, which was founded in 1990 by David Lott in Newtown, CT. Lott is a former Creative Services Manager for the New York Times Sports Leisure Division, where he wrote special advertising sections for Golf Digest, Tennis, Golf World, Golf Shop Operations and Snow Country. Lott was also responsible for producing advertising and promotion for the division’s seven magazines.

Lott Custom Communications, LLC, has provided marketing and creative services for numerous publications and golf companies, including:

Publications
Forbes
Inc.
Esquire
Mutual Funds
Internet World
Discover
Home Office Computing
Small Business Computing
Web Week
Frequent Flyer
Prevention
Web Developer

Golf Companies
MacGregor Golf
Golden Bear
Excel Shafts

Custom Publishing
Big Apple Circus
Volvo International
On Course Magazine

In addition, Lott Custom Communications, LLC, has produced special advertising sections and/or editorial copy for the following magazines and web sites:

Magazines
Golf Digest
Links Magazine
Senior Golfer
Luxury Golf Homes
Met Golfer
Player (USGS)
Mid-Ohio Golfer
Diversions
Golf Magazine
Golf & Travel
Golf for Women
Golf Shop Operations
National Golfer
Men’s Fitness
Estates West Magazine
PlayGolfNow.com
GolfOnline.com
Golf World
LinksMagazine.com