by Larry Gavrich
All true, but bring extra golf balls. The leaves make it awfully difficult to find them on the edges of the fairways and in the rough. Those of us who live in New England play the "leaf rule"; if the ball is hidden in the leaves and would have reasonably been found in the summer, you get a drop without penalty.
Larry G.

by Erik Jensen
Back in 2002, I attended a college class reunion at Norwich Univeristy, in Northfield Vermont. Normally this would not be a big deal but because I live in California, I made a vacation out of it, well, a golfing vacation out of it. I was there for 10 days, 5 of those days was spent on the golf course. I played 5 different courses and in one case, I played the same course twice in the same day. On one course, I showed up at 7am and had to wait for the office to open because there were no tee times booked for the day. I got to play at a discounted rate because I beat the golf course manager to work. It was a 27 hole course, played all 27. It was a blast.
There is a Jack Nickolas course in Burlington, loved it. Only got to play on it because the members thought the weather was too cold and rainy.
The long drives I was used to on the hard fairways in California did me no good on the lush wet fairways of Vermont. But it was awsome.
Granted, it was late October and it happened to be a late fall. The leaves were still green but just starting to turn. I could feel the winter weather in the air.
I have not had a vaction like this since. I miss the fall weather and the changing of the seasons. But then I would not trade being able to play golf year round for the fall there.