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Its one of the more challenging courses in the Fort Myers area, said Colonial Country Club golf pro Brian Kelley.

What: Championship golf course and community of 1,699 residences from condominiums to single-family houses.

How: For golf reservations, call 768-2825, to make arrangements for an event in the clubhouse dining room, call food and beverage director Alan Ghiciac at 768-9421.

Even if it werent the last hole on the course, Kelley said the 18th hole would still be the favorite of most people.

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Harvey said: and ldquo;I don and rsquo;t think staging tournaments are really about making a profit, but you recoup that cost in other ways. A lot of golfers are passionate about playing championship courses so they are prepared to pay more to play and become a member. and rdquo;

THE London Golf Club are planning to make this summer and rsquo;s European Open a stepping stone to becoming one of the highest profile courses in the country.

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I was in a sport that was not minority-oriented," said Powell, who in 1967 was the second black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association. "But I grew up in it because of my parents (William and Marcella). They were involved with the golf course my dad built, and the whole family was involved with golf.

There was so much prejudice in this country and certainly in the game of golf that even courses that were supposed to be open to the public were not open to people of color," Powell said.

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The first golf course, the original design was to give American golfers a look at the old-style architecture, and at the time I thought it would be interesting to do one that was early American architecture," said Davis, who will work on the New Course with PGA Tour veteran Justin Leonard. Eight holes will be on the water.

The Tribute is Davis homage to Scottish golf. The New Course will be his tribute to esteemed U. S. courses in the Northeast such as Shinnecock Hills.

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I think Im a much better golfer now than I was, Ive got a better understanding of how to get around a golf course. Ive got more shots now than I did. Ive a better understanding of how to fix my game when its not going right and how to manage a round so that I dont let it slip away and shoot a high number," he said.

Even during his slump at the start of last year, Tiger remained the man to beat. And hes certainly the man to have at your golf tournament. He plays in less than 20 per year, and his lack of involvement can lead to the extinction of an event - for example The International in Colorado - and even competitions with whom he has long-standing agreements will sadly recall "the year HE didnt come. "

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Just ask Walter Berukoff, the mining tycoon behind Vancouver-based Leisure Canada. For more than a decade, Mr. Berukoff has been nurturing a project, approved by the Cuban government, to build some 600 condos and villas for foreigners around three golf courses and a marina on Cubas north shore, close to Havana. But for a variety of reasons, including Cubas search for oil right next to his property, the project has gone nowhere.

The man driving Cubas golf effort is Ra and uacute;l Castro, the long-serving defense minister who became acting president when his older brother Fidel took ill in . Ra and uacute;l, who is more a fan of cockfighting than golf, is the odds-on favorite to be named president tomorrow. Alarmed at the decline in the number of tourists to Cuba, Ra and uacute;l has urged senior officials to make golf happen. The government is setting up an interagency golf task force. Cuban officials involved in the program say they are not authorized to comment on it.

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Debt payments on Dauphin Highlands eclipsed profits by an average usd. 386,000 a year over the past five years, according to year-end financial statements. The losses make selling the property as a golf course difficult, said H. Michael Liptak, chairman of the authority.

She and her husband, John, have lived in the 500 block of South Harrisburg Street in Swatara Twp. since 1961. They enjoy sitting on their front porch when the weather is warm, watching golfers and the deer that often graze the fairways.

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Although she played in a number of womens professional tournaments, the purses averaged only usd. 2,000 and Leeke decided against turning pro. She and her husband, Lyle, took over the family course, Old Channel Trail in Montague (MI) in 1966. It was a nine-hole course by Robert Bruce Harris on 90 acres, and in the years since, nine holes designed by W. Bruce Matthews and nine more by his son, Jerry, were added. Meriam has been on boards of banks, charities, two colleges and currently is director and treasurer of the National Golf Course Owners Association.

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Overriding a recommendation from MCC President David Rule to hire a larger, more established firm to manage the golf course, his board of trustees instead voted 5-1 to rehire the facilitys current management team.

Under the agreement approved on Wednesday, Smith and Deiters will lease the college-owned golf course for the next three years. They will receive all revenue from the facility, but also incur most of its operating expenses.

MCC has invested about usd. 170,000 to upgrade the golf course during the past two years. Improvements would now be the financial responsibility of Golfscapes, school officials said.

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The City of Binghamton is offering a usd. 500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for damaging Ely Golf Course.

Binghamton Police say on either or 27, a four-wheel ATV and a motorized dirt bike were driven on the course.

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