No-one is going to stroll round the Lake course accumulating birdies.
The Lake Course, less than a mile from the Pacific, is built on the lee side of an enormous dune running down to Lake Merced.
Actually, the comment came from a beaming Mike Davis, the U.S. Golf Association's executive director and the brains behind how the Lake Course at Olympic Club was set up for the Open.
The Chinese youngsters will be up against the likes of Europe's Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley and Scotland's Ryder Cup player Paul Lawrie at the Binhai Lake course, but if Ye finds that youth is not quite a match for experience he has a secret weapon to hand.
The home of cable channels Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel is tucked between the old Brown Squirrel Furniture Store and the Dead Horse Lake Golf Course at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tenn.
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Just where to look for the house and grounds (and whether you're also looking for that all important lake, of course) depends which adaptation you favor: The 1995 TV version was filmed at Lyme Park in Cheshire (exterior scenes), and Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire (interior scenes).
The course is beautiful, a jaw dropper at every turn, starting with a classic parkland section, featuring lots of water, tons of beautiful stone bulkheading, and a middle section that climbs into high, barren fields overlooking the lake and the rest of the course with a pronounced links feel, before returning to the lake for dramatic finishing holes including, oddly, a long par-3 over the lake for eighteen.
"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.
Plus, as word spreads that Lion Lake is Guan's home course, the club is bound to become more popular.
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Australia's Drew Ginn and James Tompkins made all the running down the 2000-metre course on the Idroscalo Lake in Milan, Italy.
It was even better when Mr Cameron appeared to respond in kind with a slight on Salt Lake City by saying "of course it is easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere".
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.
"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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Of course, it helped that Lake Highlands played mostly substitutes and players called up from junior varsity, so Coach Higgins showed some mercy before the first pitch was thrown.
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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.
The Davidoff Mini Cigarillos and handcrafted cigar cases are the ideal pocket accessory for the guy that can be found on the golf course, or enjoying a casual boat ride along the lake.
And, of course, I want to congratulate the players and coaches from Real Salt Lake.
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Warren hired Tom Fazio to design the course at his exclusive Alotian Club, which sits on 300 rolling acres overlooking Lake Maumelle outside Little Rock.
Their cabin is part of a community that dates to 1927 called the Sedgewood Club, a private club with 80 homes, a nine-hole golf course, a practice green, two tennis courts, a pro shop, and a lake club set on 250 acres with two private lakes.
Passover package offers similar elements as those of the Orlando option (see above) set in this sprawling, renovated Catskills resort, just 90 miles from NYC and featuring a 9-hole championship golf course, miles of hiking trails, indoor swimming pool, spa, movie room, private lake, cabaret theater and nearby options for horseback riding through nature trails.
Later that year in September, the company reversed course and sold a 70% stake in the Internet-phone business to investors, including Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canadian pension group.
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