Dear GolfTheMidAtlantic.com Visitor –
For many of you who are (or were) familiar with this site, you’re probably wondering what’s been happening with it.
I’d like to employ our new blog to help provide the answer(s). I launched GolfTheMidAtlantic.com in 2002 with the idea of providing comprehensive coverage of golf in the Mid-Atlantic region – and for several years, we took some big strides towards accomplishing that goal.
However, life’s circumstances changed two years ago – changes that impacted my (our) ability to work on the site. The most striking ‘change’ was the surprise pregnancy and birth of our third child, Matthew (in late December, 2006). Another departure was a change in my work situation. GolfTheMidAtlantic.com has always been part of my writing portfolio – but ever since Matthew’s birth, it’s been a smaller part.
Working out of the home office, it was difficult to juggle taking care of my new son, taking on a new major writing client and also maintaining the work on GolfTheMidAtlantic.com.
We also switched over to a new web host, and adding new content became much more time consuming. I’m not blaming my old partner, but the new situation contributed to the slowdown in work on GolfTheMidAtlantic.com.
I’m pleased to say, my other writing clients have also been providing me with a lot of work – but it’s certainly detracted from my ability to produce regular updates on GolfTheMidAtlantic.com, which includes the newsletter many of you were familiar with.
As a result, the site has not changed a great deal in the past couple seasons.
I’m also pleased to report that the site will be updated more regularly, especially this blog. Will we be able to produce 40-50 new stories a year as we did in the past? It’s hard to tell. All I can promise is we’ll do our best to tell the story of Mid-Atlantic golf as we’ve done since 2002 – present the best of the new courses as well as the classics in this region, along with the latest and greatest in golf products and entertaining features to round out the site.
I’d like to send along my apologies to those who’ve been disappointed by the lack of updates on the site – and thank those who continue to make our click-through numbers impressive! The archives is full of stories that are just as relevant today as they were when published, though the ‘rates’ numbers probably have changed for the individual courses and resorts.
Here’s to the future. The life of the site is reader participation, so please share your comments!
Jeff Rendall
1 Comment
June 11, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Glad you are up and going again. Looking forward to the new blog.