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India seems to be becoming a hotbed of golf course activity - and PGA Tour pros are getting in on the designs.
Colin Montgomerie and Vijay Singh are two big stars to cash in on the trend, adding their names to a who’s who of golfers with course interests in the booming country.
“There’s certain meetings this [...]

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The National Golf Foundation reported that more golf courses closed in 2007 than opened, a copy of what happened in 2006. Below is their press release.
CLOSURES OUTPACE OPENINGS IN 2007
NGF has identified 113 golf courses, in 18-hole equivalents, that opened for business in the U.S. in 2007. During the same period, there were 121.5 golf [...]

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Forsyth County, Georgia’s planning commission voted 3-2 to deny the rezoning on Tuesday night.

A developer lost the first round late Tuesday in a battle with Lake Lanier residents who fought a plan to turn Forsyth County’s oldest golf course into a massive, 772-unit retirement community.
Wellstone Communities LLC of Cumming has an option to buy the [...]

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A club with some local interest is facing the demand of a great location. Unfortunately, the neighboring homeowners are finding out the hard way that property they don’t own doesn’t give them the control they need to prevent it from changing. The course itself, which I played for the first time last year, is nice, [...]

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Although we’ve known for almost a week, it was officially announced that Tiger Woods’ first American design will be at North Carolina’s Cliffs community. Below is the press release:
ASHEVILLE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–It’s official: the world’s number one golfer, Tiger Woods, will design his first American golf [...]

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With only the tenacity only a government entity can afford, The Crossings at Carlsbad near San Diego, California will open its doors on Saturday.
Stalled numerous times by the California Coastal Commission and other environmental agencies, the course has been routed and rerouted, configured and reconfigured nearly a dozen times. Along the way, an Indian burial [...]

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The news is out - Tiger Woods is going to design his first US course. It’s going to be in North Carolina at the Cliffs, a high end retirement community located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Now, in this previous article, I highlighted Tiger’s design philosophy. It will be interesting how he uses the extreme [...]

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Golf course architect Donald Trump continues to face hurdles for his “best golf course in the world” development in Aberdeen, Scotland.
As well as building the “best seaside course in the world”, he intended to develop a second course, a 450-room hotel, 500 luxury homes, and hundreds of holiday apartments.
But his plan to build part of [...]

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After pulling his $30 million dollar offer last week, Donald Trump has become an outsider in the ongoing soap opera of the Running Horse project. Hard to blame him - the original developer failed to acquire a number of parcels that would logically be part of the project. Trump wasn’t able to acquire the parcels, [...]

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The home of golf is becoming not so sweet for both existing and proposed golf courses. A new golf course and proposed junior golf facility were rejected in Cumbrian, which is in northwest England.
Mr Cullingford said there was “no demonstrable deficiency in the provision of golf courses either in the Lake District National Park or [...]

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