Over Fargo and into the Minnesota lake country, we listened to 60s rock on XM radio.
"One chip, one putt, that's his game, " said John Ho, an owner of Guan's home course in Guangzhou, Lion Lake Country Club.
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"I knew that lake country would become something, " he told a biographer.
"Guangzhou's a big city with less than 10 golf courses so they're always very busy, " said Guan, whose home course is Lion Lake Country Club.
With a planned hydropower capacity of 5.25 gigawatts and a flooded canyon twice as voluminous as the country's largest lake, it is the centrepiece of a plan to increase the country's electricity supply fivefold by 2015.
The plans include a country park and lake with more than 30% of the 91-hectare (225-acre) site dedicated to public open space.
The Blue Nile originates in the country's Lake Tana and flows hundreds of miles north into Sudan and then Egypt before eventually flowing into the Mediterranean.
Thought to be one of the largest homes in the country, the home is on Lake Butler outside of Orlando.
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The story goes that back in 1925, a Japanese businessman named Tetsuma Akaboshi procured 400 bass from California and smuggled them into his home country, dumping the fingerlings into Lake Ashinoko, not far from Tokyo.
On the other side of the country, relentless freezing rain in Salt Lake City forced all of the runways at the city's international airport to close, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
He said Barrow has never had a high profile compared to other towns in the Lake District and was often the butt of north country jokes - being stuck out on a limb and in "a 30-mile cul-de-sac".
Newly enamored of the country since producing documentary "Albino United" --- about an albino football team in Tanzania -- in 2010, Broomfield is shooting his next feature film in the city of Mwanza on the shore of Lake Victoria in the north-west of the country.
Finally, east Europeans have fanned out across the country far more than earlier arrivals, manning Lake District retirement homes, East Anglian farms, Scottish fish-processing plants and Channel Island guest houses.
Academic Prawat Nagvajara was a cross-country skier for Thailand at both the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2006 Turin Games.
At Richard Nixon's first inauguration in 1969, the crowd was treated to "This is My Country" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
This lake is some ten miles long and is very beautiful but all this country is too old to suit me and there are no trout worth fishing for.
From there, the line wends its way to Locarno, in the country's Italian-speaking south, on the shores of Lake Maggiore.
They were among 83 two-person teams, drawn from college fishing clubs from across the country, in the second annual National Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship on Lake Lewisville, a huge reservoir just north of Dallas.
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The company said it continues to make progress on its troubled Cigar Lake mine, which is sitting on one of the richest uranium deposits in the country.
Faustino eventually moved to Argentina, traveling the country and honing the skills that would allow him to eventually return to Lake O'Higgins and live off the land for the next 46 years.
But Le Gougne, who is expected to appear before the ISU board in Salt Lake City on Monday, had reportedly said before that she was pressured by her country's own skating federation to vote for the Russians.
John Ballard, a Broadway presenter in Salt Lake City, thinks the show will be a hit even in the heart of Mormon country.
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