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Arnold Palmer is designing the North Carolina State golf course, which had it’s ceremonial kick off over the weekend.
The 18-hole, 7,025-yard, par-71 public course will be the first university course designed by The Palmer Course Design Company.
It will cost $11.6 million, funded entirely by private donations, and is scheduled to open in spring 2009.
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A new, non-real estate private golf course is planned for Roanoke County, Virginia.
The Kinloch principals - golf course architect Lester George and sports agent and amateur great Vinny Giles of Richmond, along course developer Landscapes Unlimited of Lincoln, Neb. - have added name-power with the participation of Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer and financial [...]

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The current bankrupt owner of Running Horse golf course says the deal for the course by golf course architect Donald Trump is dead. Trump’s lawyers say otherwise. Nobody seems to know what really is going on.
Current Running Horse owner Mick Evans says, “They’re really close. The Trump Organization chose to stop negotiations at this point, [...]

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Sagebrush is the dream child of PGA Tour player Richard Zokol. Located in remote British Columbia, Canada, the Zokol and Canadian architect Rod Whitman are designing a course that Zokol hopes to be on par with some pretty lofty courses - among them Augusta National, Sand Hills and Pacific Dunes.
“There’s nothing like it in Canada, [...]

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If Running Horse, to be renamed Trump International, Fresno, is to come to pass, it’s going to take a major effort on golf course architect Donald Trump’s part to make it happen.
It’s going to take a herculean effort to complete the sale of Running Horse to Donald Trump. Owner Mick Evans and his lawyers met [...]

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Golf course architect Donald Trump is getting a lot of press out of his purchase of Running Horse. The LA Times managed to snag the money quote from the Donald.
“They ran out of a thing called money,” Trump said in a telephone interview, “so I bought it.”
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Golf course architect Donald Trump pulled a fast one - a day after reporting that the Donald’s bid for the troubled Running Horse project had been pulled, the property’s developer accepted the Donald’s $40 million bid.
Owner Mick Evans signed a letter of intent with Trump for the sale of the troubled course, Evan’s attorney Harry [...]

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Pete Dye is building a course in the Tennessee mountains - 60 miles north of Knoxville - and he took time out to explain his design process.
“I’ll be doggone if I can see it (a course) on a piece of paper,” said the 81-year-old Dye. “And nobody else can either. But you have to come [...]

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Golf course architect Donald Trump has had enough. He’s pulled his $40 million offer for the project and decided to wait it out to bankruptcy.
“I think I’m better off withdrawing my bid and waiting for the bankruptcy,” Trump said on the show. “Eventually, I think it’s going to go to auction.”
Trump also expressed contempt for [...]

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Golf course architect Donald Trump has put a bid in on the Running Horse project. His original bid of $10 million was rejected - but the Donald doesn’t go down without a fight.
Donald Trump told Action News Anchor Liz Harrison by phone Tuesday afternoon that he is ready to begin work on Running Horse immediately [...]

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