The Bear Roars

Golf legend Jack Nicklaus made an appearance late last month at an East Manatee County golf course that bears both his design work and one of his marks on golf history.

Nicklaus was primarily there to talk to members of the private course, The Concession, about some pending changes to the fairways, greens and tee areas. But since local and national media were also invited to the event, that meant Nicklaus ended up talking about the only real story in golf today: Tiger Woods.

In between chatter about Woods and putting greens, Nicklaus talked briefly about what the recession has done to the industry of building high-end homes on elite golf courses on the Gulf Coast.