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This Weekend is Penn National's Discovery Weekend for Just $99 Per Couple

Penn National, PA: Accommodations, golf & more for just $99.

This weekend is Penn National's Discovery Weekend, running
from Friday March 28 to Saturday March 29, 2008. It's your
opportunity to learn about this award-winning community
located near the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, tour the property and enjoy some of its many
amenities, including its two championship golf courses and
spa.

The best part is that the weekend costs only $99 per couple.
Stay at the Penn National Inn over Saturday night and it's just
another $59. You'd have to work pretty hard to beat this offer.
See below for details and schedule of events. And don't worry
if you miss this weekend, you have another chance on April
11 and 12 with the same price and event line-up.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28
• COME VISIT. Check-in to the Penn National Inn. A welcome
reception & dinner with Resident Ambassadors is a perfect
opportunity to meet new friends and learn about life at
Penn National.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29
• Breakfast. Enjoy a hearty breakfast and a casual
    presentation by the Developer of Penn National

• Tour. Scheduled community tours to see available properties.

• Lunch. Lunch kicks off the afternoon of fun & festivities.

• Play Golf/Use Amenities. Choose your fun

• GOLF. Play 18-holes on either 4-star championship golf course

• NATURE WALK. Explore the trails around Penn National for a
     peaceful & inspiring afternoon

• SPA TREATMENTS. Enjoy a 30 minute massage by 
     professional massage therapists

• EXPLORE HISTORY. Explore Gettysburg National Park, just
     25 minutes away. Or take a walking tour through historic
     Chambersburg.

• RELAX. Kick back & relax at Penn National

• TENNIS

• ART TOURS

ALL INCLUSIVE cost for the weekend: $99 per couple

To confirm your reservation, call 800.338.7523. Or reply to
the community via its information request form.

The $99 per couple fee includes Friday overnight
accommodations at the Penn National Inn, activities, meals,
seminar, taxes & gratuities. Space is Limited. Reservations
are required. You and your spouse/guest are required to tour
the community with a Penn National Sales Associate.

'Win a GolfCourseHome Weekend' Contest Sparks Dreams

The entries are coming in for GolfCourseHome's
"Win a Weekend at Your Dream Community Contest."
We've asked subscribers to our New Communities
Newsletter to write us describing what they would
imagine their perfect community to be. We've received
some excellent entries making us think there are a lot
of aspiring copywriters out there.

There is still time for you to email us your entry:
Tell us what your dream community would be like
and describe a perfect day there. The winning entry
wins 2 days/3 nights at the GolfCourseHome Featured
Community of his/her choice. Details of the stay depend
on the rules governing the community.

Here's one of the recent entries:

The Perfect Community
by K R.

Imagine a place that is the antidote to the stress of
daily life; one that fosters family relationships and a
creates a deep sense of community - a sort of “Leave
It To Beaver” atmosphere, where children are safe…
life is simple, and “home” is permanent.

How do you create that environment?  First, by creating
a barrier between the community and the outside world –
a protected place where the air is clean and the surroundings
are green.  Where better to do this than within a golf
course community?  Rather than homes surrounding a golf
course, surround the homes with the course!  Create a
“decompression zone” for people of the community to
drive through on their way home -  a meandering road
through lush green and natural spaces.  This will begin
the daily transformation from life’s “rat race” to a slower,
calmer pace.

After the drive has imperceptibly eased your tensions,
you will come upon a neighborhood of homes that are
not built merely to impress, but built to last, with a
sense of history and permanence. Not “McMansions”
designed with the latest “fad” in mind, these homes
will seem as if they were built many years ago and nature
has grown and worked its special magic around them
with moss and ivy-covered stone walls, mixed with
beautiful architectural details – stately and classic,
but welcoming.

Now add to that ambiance, hidden technology - an
intranet for neighbors, where they can easily become
acquainted and communicate with one another,
inviting one another to meet at the clubhouse to
begin an easy 9-hole afternoon on an impeccably
manicured course…or for an invigorating walk through
the nature trails or exercise class at the community
fitness center…or for a relaxing evening meal in
the fire-lit dining room at the clubhouse, where you
can plan your next neighborhood gathering around
the fire pit so children and adults alike can enjoy the
old-time pleasure of roasting marshmallows over an
open fire.  This is the best of both old and new worlds.
This is the perfect community.

The Dream 18: Great Golf Holes from World-Class Golf Communities

Teton Springs, Idaho: No.3 Hole on the Dream 18.

If you were to play 18 of the best, most memorable
golf holes--a Dream 18--that can be found within today's
best golf course communities, which ones would you
choose? That's the hypothetical question we posed to
ourselves if we had to choose from among the 200 golf
communities featured on GolfCourseHome.net.

These havens of the country club lifestyle represent
more than 5,000 golf holes, 300-plus championship
golf courses and over 75 different golf course designers.
A lot to choose from. Furthermore, many of the courses
are highly ranked by the various golf publications
and have been crafted by the greats of golf course
design. That's only part of the story, however.

The Lucky Ones
The crux of the matter is that all these courses
are home courses to the lucky ones who live around
them. Whether you play their carpeted fairways,
traverse around them on your morning walk or just
have them as a lovely background as you go about
your day, each help create a beautiful environment
that makes you glad you live there.

Thus, you could go mad trying to select the "best" 18
holes. Instead, we select 18 of the ones we'd most
like play with the full knowledge that if we paused
and started over, we'd most likely pick another
group of 18, and then yet another.

A Happy Solution
Which gives us the happy solution of saying that
this group is the first of what will be an annual
selection. If you'd like to add your own favorite
golf hole to this list, please email us and we will
publish your selections at a later date.

Each entry includes a parenthetical denoting which
number hole on the original course our selected hole
represents. For detailed information on any of these
courses or communities, just click on the name of
the community. For the sake of saving space, we
present a few of the Dream 18. You can go to the
Dream 18 page on GolfCourseHome.net for the
full list.

Hole No. 1,  The Cliffs at Glassy (1st), Travelers
Rest, SC. Sophisticated cuisine and high-tech wellness
facilities are a theme at each of the eight Carolina
communities bearing The Cliffs brand. Our Dream
18 starts there with an inspiring tee shot courtesy
of architect Tom Jackson.

This tight and dramatic par-4 at Cliffs at Glassy plays
to a narrow landing area beside a steep wooded hillside.
Drives that steer clear of it flirt with water on the right.

Hole No. 3, Teton Springs (11th) Teton Valley, WY.
Rocky Mountain snow-splashed peaks, mountain-fed
stream and lakes and vast green fairways make golf
at Teton Springs a continually memorable event.
The community's 11th hole takes advantage of great
mountain views from allalong its straightaway 460-yards.

Two ponds lie in perilous locations along the fairway
and up by the green. The front of the green is open
to allow a long second shot to bounce in front and
run in, proving that yes, you can you can build a
great par-4 without doglegs or elevation changes.

Hole No. 6, The Founder’s Club (14th), Sarasota, FL.
Inside a guarded sanctuary accented by 90 acres of
picturesque lakes and shaded by stands of pines,
palms and old oak hammocks, there is a “core”
golf course (not lined by housing) by Robert Trent
Jones, Jr. that represents some of his finest work
in recent years. Our highlight hole is a monster par-5
that plays from a narrow chute of trees.

This 570-yarder plays along water for half its length,
and a mistake off the tee will make getting home
in a decent score a difficult task. The large green
provides plenty of rippling contour, so par will be
well earned.