Bill Gates is known to have a second home at the Yellowstone Club, a private skiing and golf development in Montana.
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As I did with rolling over, crawling, walking and running, I have watched my kids go through different stages of golf development.
And it says that if the golf development creates too much traffic, the course owners will have to pay for road improvements.
"What Guan did at the Masters, in my view, was very, very dangerous, " said Henry Brunton, the former national golf coach of Canada and an expert on golf development.
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One property now in the Chongqing government's hands is a 20-hectare (50-acre) villa and golf-course development, with a near-finished Hilton hotel.
Els believes that such schools are vital for golf's continued development.
"Let's say you make a drive go 25 yards shorter by aerodynamics, " said Dean Snell, TaylorMade's vice president for golf-ball research and development.
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Originally located downtown in Georgia's capital, its course was actually the nearby East Lake Golf Club, not the present-day development in Johns Creek north of the city.
Located between Marbella and Sotogrande in the Costa del Sol, Finca Cortesin is a coastal development set by an 18-hole golf course of the same name, which opened in 2006 and this year plays hosts to the Volvo World Match Play Championship.
Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.
The US tycoon opposes the development and says it will spoil the views from his golf course on the Menie estate.
Vicon, which has backing from investor FML, has submitted a notice of intention to lodge a detailed planning application for the golf course and golf academy, with an in-principle application for the mixed-use development.
He opposes the development because he says it would spoil the view from his Menie estate golf course.
The National Trust has sent members a letter saying that if a golf resort near the Giants Causeway goes ahead, "nowhere is safe from development".
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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".
Dr Mark Smith, who is part of the Golf Education and Research Group at the University of Lincoln, England, believes that, with development, the swing could become part of the range of shots used by the modern golfer.
The proposed development, at Crete's Cavo Sidero peninsula, would include accommodation and a heathland golf course.
The development, on a 365-acre site, is to be known as Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa.
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