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GOLF: Arkansas' Top Courses - Chart
Golf courses course name -- location -- phone number -- course play -- No. of holes -- price -- Web site, misc.
Following is a partial list of golf courses around the Roanoke Valley: Public courses
The nation's economic downturn has taken a heavy toll on businesses in a variety of sectors, and golf courses are no exception. From municipal properties to privately owned facilities, golf courses have had to tweak their operations to get players onto the greens.
Donald Trump, the real estate developer turned TV personality, is betting his name will boost the value of his golf courses even as the premium for the brand declines on condo properties and ratings slide on his show, "The Apprentice. Trump has acquired nine golf properties in the U.S., including four since 2008, after mostly steering clear of using his own money to buy real estate since 2005. In July, he started building a $1.15 billion luxury golf course and resort in Scotland. Trump says that putting his name on the courses increases membership sales and the fees he can charge.
Golf courses have a reputation as being environmental disaster areas, using too many chemicals and wasting too much water. Members of the Maine Landscape and Nursery Association who met at Toddy Brook Golf Course in North Yarmouth late last month found out that doesn't have to be the case.
Stone Mountain Golf Club, 16 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, encompasses two 18-hole championship courses on a 3,200-acre Marriott resort and conference center amid "sparkling lakes and lush green forests." Each is managed by a superintendent committed to a concept catching on around the nation and, indeed, around the world: environmentally sensitive golf courses that counter golf's image of wasted water, reckless use of chemical pesticides, destruction of natural habitat, and ail-around environmental bad practices designed to provide entertainment tor the privileged few at the expense of the many. The U.S. Golf Association began putting money into its ecological research in the late 1980s, but greatly escalated the effort beginning in 1990 and continued to do so to determine jusl how mu...
Two of the city's public golf clubs could easily benefit from design upgrades, space planning specialist Tom Hoch said. A broad view of the beautiful grounds that Lincoln Park and Earlywine golf courses offer is at the top of suggestions recently submitted to the Oklahoma City Golf Commission by Hoch's design firm and LWPB Architecture. Other ideas include revamping the food services area of the clubhouses and making the parks generally more accessible to nongolfers.
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