Over decades, he built up his private Kraft Group--which includes holdings in paper and wood company International Forest Products, real estate and a private equity firm--into a fully integrated, billion-dollar company.

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"Courses here get 65% to 85% of their revenue during high season, " said Justin Wood, executive director of golf for Fairmont Hotels, which includes the Scottsdale Princess Resort and its associated TPC Stadium course.

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And it includes the success of Scottish-based companies, such as Weir and Wood groups, which make much of their money outside Scotland.

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Be sure to stop by the Roundhouse Lodge, at the top of Whistler mountain, to check out its Olympic Legacy display , which includes such prized memorabilia as Swiss Olympian Didier Defago's gold medal winning Rossignol skis and a wood-carved replica of the medals podium - where every athlete, no matter how skilled, can snap a photograph of a personal Olympic moment.

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