No sales tax, no income tax, no capital gains tax, no property tax, no inheritance tax -– no wonder Grand Cayman Island seems like heaven to the planet’s well-heeled bankers, financiers, and investors, not to mention at least one Republican presidential...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
The Week That Was, january 22, 2012
scotland The Wind and Other BlowhardsDonald Trump has threatened to abandon his soon-to-open resort community in Aberdeenshire if government officials approve the construction of an off-shore wind farm that will be visible from his coastal property....
Saturday, January 21, 2012
talking points KPMG on Golf’s Future
International golf development has been on life-support for three years and isn’t likely to get healthy in 2012.That, in a nutshell, is the opinion of Andrea Sartori, the director of KPMG’s Golf Advisory Practice. Sartori, who’s considered by Golf, Inc....
Friday, January 20, 2012
Shameless Self-Promotion, january 2011
A new and hopefully better year has arrived, and so has the January 2012 issue of the World Edition of the Golf Course Report. In it, we offer a bounty of news (and perfectly acceptable amounts of comment) about forthcoming new courses in nations from...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
ireland The Next World-Class Venue?
A destination-worthy golf course -– one that its creator says will be good enough to “rank inside the world’s top 15” –- may soon take shape on Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland.Mel Flanagan wants to build the...
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Week That Was, january 15, 2012
china Hearts and Minds and GolfHere are two delicious little ironies about golf in China: One, the People’s Republic lacks golf courses designed for the people. And two, a U.S. architect, one with unquestioned capitalist sympathies, is trying to persuade...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
talking points The Big Money
Mitt Romney won’t speak French in public, but I will: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.I mention this proverb because Golf Digest has published its annual ranking of the top earners in golf, and this year’s top 10 is pretty much a mirror image...
Thursday, January 12, 2012
serbia Serbs Up!
After more than three years’ of delays, the first 18-hole golf course in Serbia is expected to break ground in the fall of 2012.The course, to be designed by Peter Harradine, will take shape in Surcin, a western suburb of Belgrade, the nation’s capital....
Monday, January 9, 2012
The Week That Was, january 8, 2012
united states 2011: A Year To ForgetJim Koppenhaver has reviewed the events, crunched the numbers, and published his analysis of the past year in the golf business. To be sure, it’s not a year that will have a cherished place in anyone’s memory book.Although...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
worth reading Golf 2012: Where Do We Stand?
Don’t look now, but the U.S. economy continues to improve. The jobs picture has brightened, auto sales are increasing, home builders’ sentiments are improving, and consumer confidence is growing.But what about golf? Is our industry also poised to rebound,...
Thursday, January 5, 2012
estonia Scratching Where It Itches
In an effort to grow the game, the capital city of Estonia wants to build a daily-fee golf course in one of its southwestern suburbs.I don’t know if it’ll be a nine- or an 18-hole course, and I don’t know who’s going to design it. Pretty much all I know...
Monday, January 2, 2012
The Week That Was, january 1, 2012
talking points Gary Player, the Guarded OptimistGary Player is feeling confident about the prospects for golf development and construction in 2012.“It seems to me that we have hit bottom, and things are slowly starting to improve,” the South Carolina-based...
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