Calkins: Betting on Memphis — A company spent $495,000 to buy a party house on the first tee
Green Mountain Technology recently purchased a home along the first fairway of TPC Southwind for guests to relax and watch the 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. (Houston Cofield/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Green Mountain Technology is so enthusiastic about the future of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, it spent nearly half a million dollars to buy a house on the first tee.
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