Dan Kniffen wants to make a confession here on his back veranda. “I’m an active guy, but I find myself sitting here a lot, sometimes just staring into space.” The space is gorgeous, and there’s a lot of it to see, leaving Patty to explain: “We had no idea what we were missing.” It took an injury and an introduction to the veranda to change their perspective.
We’d travel around the country saying ... someday ... someday. It was a fun game for us to imagine where we might move. The places on our shortlist were very nice — Scottsdale, San Diego, Daniel Island, Fort Myers. [Patty] I knew all of them really well from my time working with Golf Digest.
Reynolds wasn’t on our radar. We each had been here separately for work and with friends. We’d stay at The Ritz-Carlton and treat it like a boating and golf getaway. That’s pretty much all we did.
My injury was a blessing in disguise. [Dan] We came for Memorial Day Weekend in 2019, but I couldn’t play golf or get into a boat. So we had to find other things to do. Patty went paddleboarding. I got a massage. We noticed people playing tennis and biking. [Patty] I turned to Dan and said, “Why haven’t we considered moving to Reynolds?” Neither one of us had a good answer.
