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Jayson Williams Puts South Carolina Home Up For Sale

Filed under: Estates, Sports, Crimes and Misdemeanors

Saying it's a been a rough few years for Jayson Williams is a bit of an understatement. Williams, once a top NBA basketball player with the New Jersey Nets, has been serving a five-year term for accidentally shooting and killing a limo driver and just a couple of weeks ago he was in court on drunk driving charges. He admitted that he was drunk when he crashed his SUV into a tree in January, a week after he pleaded guilty in New Jersey to aggravated assault in the death of limo driver Costas Christofi. He was given a one year sentence on top of the five-year sentence he is already serving.

It's no surprise then that his home in Bluffton, South Carolina is on the market. Williams is currently in the midst of a divorce and has two young daughters. This home is not the home where the shooting occurred. That home, a massive estate in New Jersey has since been sold, renovated and is back on the market for $13.5 million. The Bluffton home in the Berkeley Hall community has unfortunately not been free of controversy either. Earlier this year the NY Post reported that the estate had been robbed of more $150,000 in sports memorabilia, electronics and jewelry including a pair of autographed Tiger Woods golf shoes and handwritten lyrics by Tupac Shakur.

The seven-bedroom home is on the Okatie River and has a guest house over the garage. The double-height living room has river views and a massive fireplace. The homes opens onto foyer with twin sweeping staircases and a pool with views over the river. It is listed for $2.7 million.

[Thanks, Derrick!]

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Travel + Leisure's Top Golf Communities for 2009

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Filed under: Estates, Sports

Get your clubs re-gripped and spikes shined because Travel + Leisure Golf just released America's Top 25 Golf Communities for 2009. Ten of the twenty-five are new to the list this year which is a surprisingly large number. Each property was graded on the following six categories in order of importance: golf amenity; residential architecture and style; location, including natural setting and proximity to cultural activities; management, service and programming options; non-golf amenities, such as a full service spa, equestrian center or marina; and environmental stewardship. Searching for the best combination of qualities the editors selected the following as their top five: