The contrast between the rough, which will get even more golden as the season progresses, and the green fairways was visually appealing.

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It does, however, paint the dormant fairways green each winter, so that many resort visitors don't even notice.

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Mr. Doak and Gil Hanse, both Americans, are best known for crafting quirky, inexpensive courses with wider fairways, funhouse green complexes and an emphasis on giving golfers multiple options.

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It will become harder for golf course builders to deduct for easements on fairways and for developers to deduct for easements on green-space buffers between McMansions.

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