Saturday, January 30, 2010

ABU DHABI Saadiyat Beach Golf Club is "very different"

Gary Player spent some time in Abu Dhabi this week, talking up his new golf course on Saadiyat Island.The extra-long (7,800-yard) track, called Saadiyat Beach Golf Club, is the centerpiece of a huge master-planned community that's being developed by...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Symposium will offer a "Roadmap to Asia"

Interested in doing a little business in China or Japan? What about South Korea? Or Mongolia?If the answer is yes, you might want to cough up some cash for "Roadmap to Asia: The New Golf Frontier," a symposium that will be held in San Diego, California...
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AUSTRIA Golfplatz Anif, Anif

A billionaire, a soccer legend, and a retired auto racer have set out to build “the leading private club in the Salzburg region” of Austria.The partners are Dietrich Mateschitz, Franz Beckenbauer, and Ralf Schumacher, who were described -– comically,...
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BRAZIL Garapua Beach Resort, Ilha de Tinhare

While the experts boldly calculate the golf construction that will inevitably occur in and around Rio de Janiero, the real development action today is taking place in Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil that has just four existing golf courses.With...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

SLOVAKIA / Metropolis may break ground in 2011

In a story published on January 15, 2010, Trend reports that TriGranit has provided more details about its casino, hotel, and golf project in suburban Bratislava.TriGranit, a Hungarian developer, will build the project, called Metropolis, in three phases....
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