Along the way, they pause for everything from safari expeditions to world-class golf.
The PGA argued that walking the 72 holes while playing world-class golf was a significant factor in tournament play.
The STUC had criticised the scheme for attracting "middle-class golf fans" rather than providing jobs for local people.
"These latest developments, build on the recent impetus to make it a family destination resort, and will add to the first class children's golf and high wire climbing attractions, " he said.
At The Resort at Pelican Hill, amid the hillside bungalows and private villas that overlook the world class Tom Fazio-designed golf courses, kids will find a retreat of their own at Camp Pelican Clubhouse.
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About 360, 000 kids were actively involved last year, a number that balloons to 2.4 million if you add the elementary school students who were taught golf in a First Tee-designed gym class.
Just west of the city centre, near the main streets of Melville (7th Street) and Parkhurst (4th Street), botanical gardens, public parks and golf courses are surrounded by a moat of middle class suburbia.
Investment, consulting and project management company Vicon wants to redevelop the castle itself as the "centrepiece" of a development that proposes "a world-class championship-standard 18-hole golf course, clubhouse and educational golf academy, new whisky distillery, homes, retail and a food and drink centre of excellence".
Many observers see China as the next market for golf to conquer, with an expanding, aspirational middle class taking up the game in significant numbers.
Over the past decade, however, Costa Rica's fastest-growing crop has been a collection of opulent hotels and resort communities, complemented by marinas, golf courses, gourmet restaurants, hot springs and other world-class facilities.
The Pacific Northwest has been booming in terms of great golf for the past decade, and is now home to a collection of world class public courses, including the four at Bandon Dunes, the three at Sunriver, and most recently, the soon to be US Open venue Chambers Bay.
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Jenkins took up golf at age 8, on a nine-hole course with oiled-sand greens near his working-class home on the South Side, and came of age just as Nelson and Hogan were hitting their stride.
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While the number of courses has quietly tripled in the last decade to over 600, golf is still very much a minority sport and even though significant growth is expected with the expansion of a middle class predicted to have doubled its 2010 level of 52 million by 2015, the sport is still eye-wateringly expensive.
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