Pound for pound, no small city in Kansas City is more wired for golf than Leawood. Hallbrook and Leawood South sit on top of one another, the Ironwoods and the Tomahawk Creek corridor put fairways inside the city limits, and the homeowners along them tend to play enough that a frozen January genuinely costs them rounds. Around here a home bay isn't a curiosity — it's the thing the neighbor already has. The real question is which part of the house, or the lot, it ought to live on.
Geography sorts that out fast. South of 135th the city is still filling in, and a lot of that newer construction was framed with the tall basement ceilings a full driver wants — the cleanest version of this build. Closer to 119th the homes are established and finished, so the work is a retrofit: we read beam soffits, duct drops, and the inches between the joists and a lifted club before we commit to anything. And because Leawood lots run large, there's a third option the tighter suburbs rarely have — a stand-alone building out back, sized to the swing from the slab up.