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		<title>Planet Golf Survey &#8211; Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course Design Competition</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2012/03/16/planet-golf-survey-rio-2016-olympic-golf-course-design-competition-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Golf Course Architecture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gary Player]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gil hanse golf course designer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[greg norman lorena ochoa olympic design decision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam Olympic designers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[olympic golf courses designed by Gil Hanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter thomson karrie webb olympic golf designers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio 2016 Olympic golf course competition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We believe the organizing committee for Rio 2016 made an astute decision by engaging Gil Hanse and his team to design and build the new Olympic golf course in Brazil.

What do you think, was Hanse the best candidate or should they have gone with somebody else?

Vote now.]]></description>
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		<title>New Nicklaus course in the Hunter Valley to become a &#8216;major international tourist destination.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2012/02/29/new-nicklaus-course-in-the-hunter-valley-to-become-a-major-international-tourist-destination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Promising news from the New South Wales Hunter Valley last week, that Capital Corporation's proposed new $150 million golf and recreation resort in Cessnock is still on the cards.

As reported in local newspaper, 'The Advertiser', the new golf course will be designed by Jack Nicklaus, and will be accompanied by a five-star resort and prestigious residential subdivision. The property is located directly adjacent to the Greg Norman 'designed' Vintage development.

What's interesting about this latest news from Capital Corporation, is that according to the company's Managing Director Greg Taylor, Nicklaus himself picked the site and will be creating one of 'his 25 unique signature clubs around the world.']]></description>
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		<title>Royal Canberra announces the appointment of Ogilvy Clayton to prepare a master plan for future course works</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/12/21/royal-canberra-announces-the-appointment-of-ogilvy-clayton-to-prepare-a-master-plan-for-future-course-works/</link>
		<comments>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/12/21/royal-canberra-announces-the-appointment-of-ogilvy-clayton-to-prepare-a-master-plan-for-future-course-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more hotly contested redesign jobs in Australia was awarded to the newly formed Ogilvy Clayton Design team last week, the company appointed by the Royal Canberra Golf Club to prepare a Masterplan for major course works, post the 2013 Aussie Women's Open.]]></description>
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		<title>Thomson Perrett mimic Nicklaus and Norman by adding LPGA star to their Olympic bid</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/12/08/thomson-perrett-mimic-nicklaus-and-norman-by-adding-lpga-star-to-their-olympic-bid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The organizing committee for the 2016 Olympic games have announced that eight finalists have been selected for its golf course design contest. The creative commercial pairings of Greg Norman with Lorena Ochoa and Jack Nicklaus with Annika Sorrenstam have paid off, for now anyway, with both teams shortlisted. Also on the shortlist is the Australian signature design company Thomson Perrett, who have announced that 7 times LPGA major winner Karrie Webb will be part of their design team should the company win the Olympic contract. Despite no evidence at all that a design company teaming with an LPGA superstar can/will produce a quality golf course, it has clearly become fashionable to champion gender equality by tacking a famous female onto your design bid. Others in contention are fellow signature design companies, Gary Player Design and Robert Trent Jones II as well as golf course architects Martin Hawtree, Tom Doak and Gil Hanse.]]></description>
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		<title>Geoff Ogilvy inspects progress of first major design project at Bonnie Doon</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/11/20/geoff-ogilvy-inspects-progress-of-first-major-design-project-at-bonnie-doon/</link>
		<comments>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/11/20/geoff-ogilvy-inspects-progress-of-first-major-design-project-at-bonnie-doon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Bonnie Doon Golf Club welcomed defending Australian Open Champion Geoff Ogilvy back to the club to inspect the works being carried out by his design company Ogilvy Clayton Golf Design.

Ogilvy Clayton began work on a major redevelopment of the Bonnie Doon GC in May, and with Stage One of the project nearing completion, Ogilvy escorted journalists and members of the golfing media on a walking tour of the new works. Commenting on progress made to this point, Ogilvy noted that, "It's a pretty stunning piece of land with some great stuff growing out of it. It's pretty exciting to get on the ground and see stuff like that. It's pretty fun."]]></description>
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		<title>Is Rees Jones really that bad &#8211; and will Phil Mickelson be any better?</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/09/27/is-rees-jones-really-that-bad-and-will-phil-mickelson-be-any-better/</link>
		<comments>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/09/27/is-rees-jones-really-that-bad-and-will-phil-mickelson-be-any-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observing from afar, the lashing dished out to Cog Hill and its redesign architect Rees Jones during the recent BMW Championship seemed astonishing. I'm not suggesting the criticism was unwarranted in any way, but I am surprised at the tone of some of the vitriol and, more importantly, the quarters from which it came.

Geoff Ogilvy started the ball rolling the fortnight earlier, when he birdied the 72nd hole in Boston to sneak into the BMW field in 69th position (out of a field of 70). Acknowledging his good fortune and clutch play, Ogilvy sarcastically noted that it meant he was, 'rewarded with a trip to Cog Hill.'

Ogilvy is an impassioned student of golf course design, and the player least likely to 'get' the design style of Cog Hill architect Rees Jones. His criticism of Jones and his design work has been consistent over the years. Mild but consistent.

This time, however, Ogilvy was not only joined by a chorus of other players damning the tweaked Rees Jones layout, he was well and truly overshadowed by a number of bitter attacks.]]></description>
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		<title>Sliding down that slippery Slope</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/06/16/sliding-down-that-slippery-slope/</link>
		<comments>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/06/16/sliding-down-that-slippery-slope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Golf Australia announced changes to our local handicapping system, including the implementation of the United States slope rating system for golf courses, I have feared for what might happen to some of our great layouts once their slope numbers were computed and announced. It was during a recent conversation with the President of a prominent metropolitan golf club that I realised my fears about the introduction of the US slope rating system here were well founded.]]></description>
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		<title>New world No. 1 Luke Donald announces plans for his first course &#8216;design&#8217;.</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/06/16/new-world-no-1-luke-donald-announces-plans-for-his-first-course-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who follow developments in Asia closely, will be aware that shortly after assuming the mantle of the World's highest ranked professional golfer, England's Luke Donald bowed to the inevitable and announced he was designing his first course, in Danang, Vietnam. The project is known as Ba Na Hills, and Donald will be 'designing' the course in association with IMG Golf Course Services.]]></description>
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		<title>The Australian PGA tries to increase the profile of golf&#8230;by putting together a boy band!</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/06/16/the-australian-pga-tries-to-increase-the-profile-of-golf-by-putting-together-a-boy-band/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what is claimed to be an attempt to shake a stuffy image of golf as a game for your Dad and his retired friends (does it really even have that image?), the Australian PGA recently embarked on a bold, new marketing campaign to give the game a youthful, fresher appearance. The results can be seen here below, in a photograph that forms part of its Pro Golf Exposed campaign!]]></description>
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		<title>News Flash..Gary Player set to return to the Asia Pacific Golf Summit in 2011&#8230;as event organizers struggle to come up with a new accolade for 2012.</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/03/23/news-flash-gary-player-set-to-return-to-the-asia-pacific-golf-summit-in-2011-as-event-organizers-struggle-to-come-up-with-a-new-accolade-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The organizers of the Asia Pacific Golf Summit announced yesterday that Gary Player was returning for the third straight year, this time to accept induction into the Asia Pacific Hall of Fame, which is administered by the group that runs the annual Summit. For Player this is yet 'another distinguished honor to add to his list of international achievements.' And, might we suggest, another opportunity to use his golfing celebrity to spruik for course design work in the Asia region.]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Golf Monthly turns its superlatives to Design Revolutionary&#8230;&#8230;.Tony Jacklin!</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/03/15/asian-golf-monthly-turns-its-superlatives-to-design-revolutionary-tony-jacklin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News out of Asia this week, that the 2011 Asia Pacific Golf Summit in Pattaya will feature British legend Tony Jacklin as one of its keynote speakers. Following from the ‘love-fest’ of previous years, where the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Peter Thomson, Greg Norman and Annika Sorenstam have been feted for their ‘services to golf’, this year it’s apparently Jacklin’s turn to be adulated as he spruiks for course design work. In making his announcement, publisher Mike Sebastian described Jacklin as a 'design revolutionary'.....]]></description>
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		<title>Care to take a guess at Tiger&#8217;s design fee&#8230;&#8230;nope higher!</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/02/11/care-to-take-a-guess-at-tigers-design-fee-nope-higher/</link>
		<comments>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/02/11/care-to-take-a-guess-at-tigers-design-fee-nope-higher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staggering reports overnight from the Arabian Business magazine, which claims to have seen documents confirming the fee paid to Tiger Woods by developers of the stalled Tiger Woods Dubai project. The magazine claims that Woods has already received more than $55 million from UAE developer Tatweer, despite just six holes being built and the remainder now on hold indefinitely. Apparently Woods was to receive another $14 million upon completion of the project, and would have received an additional $28.8 million had a second course been commissioned.]]></description>
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		<title>Say it isn&#8217;t so Tom&#8230;.Fazio to co-design a new course in Portugal with European Golf Design</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/02/09/say-it-isnt-so-tom-fazio-to-co-design-a-new-course-in-portugal-with-european-golf-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May the venue for the 2018 Ryder Cup in Europe will be announced, and among the contenders is the yet-to-be built Comporta Links course in Portugal, to be designed by Tom Fazio in collaboration with European Golf Design. What's telling about recent announcements from Portugal, is not that Tom Fazio and his children have decided to stretch their business across the Atlantic, but that they need a back-end signature design business like EGD to help complete their new project.]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger&#8217;s Dubai Dream Over &#8230;. for now</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/02/09/tigers-dubai-dream-over-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports recently have confirmed golf's worst kept secret, that Tiger Woods Dubai - the former World No. 1's debut golf design project - was in financial trouble and being put on hold. Tiger Woods Dubai was first floated back in 2006, but struck trouble the following year when Dubai's housing prices plunged. It's scheduled completion date was pushed back from 2009, to 2010 to then six-holes would be ready in 2011 to now being apparently closed down. For Tiger, the wait to complete his first golf course design continues.]]></description>
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		<title>Outrage at The Australian &#8211; If this was a new course Nicklaus wouldn&#8217;t put his name to it!</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/01/20/outrage-at-the-australian-if-this-was-a-new-course-nicklaus-wouldnt-put-his-name-to-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>planetgolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago I accepted the fact that I was unlikely to be able to hit a golf ball like Jack Nicklaus, nor putt with his complete assuredness under the most extreme pressure. After studying more than 40 of his golf courses worldwide, I’d also assumed that we were unlikely to ever share the same views on architecture and the business of golf course design. Turns out I was wrong, for I recently discovered that, like me, Nicklaus apparently believes that Sydney's revered Australian Golf Club is seriously flawed. The problem for Jack Nicklaus; he's the guy who designed it.]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Golf – 2010 Architect of the Year</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/01/20/planet-golf-%e2%80%93-2010-architect-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it may surprise some, our Planet Golf Architect of the Year for 2010 is American Jim Urbina. Having started in the design business working for Pete Dye in the mid-1980s, Urbina left Dye in 1992 to join an unknown novice named Tom Doak, whom he worked with successfully for more than 17 years. In 2010, after completing their second masterpiece at the Bandon Dunes Resort in Oregon, Tom Doak and Jim Urbina went their separate ways – and one gets the sense that Urbina was as stunned as anyone else when the partnership ended. It’s not an easy time to establish yourself as a serious solo designer.]]></description>
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		<title>Queensland Floods</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2011/01/20/queensland-floods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many will be aware, tens of thousands of Queenslanders have suffered through weeks of unprecedented flooding, with more than three-quarters of the state flooded to some degree. While nothing compares with the loss of a loved one, we should remember that across the state golf clubs and course superintendents are currently mopping up and assessing the damage done by the most devastating natural disaster in Australian history.]]></description>
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		<title>Hainan we have a Benchmark</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2010/12/16/hainan-we-have-a-benchmark-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years my gripe with golf in China, was that moderately talented designers were prolific in the country while the really gifted architects were unable to get their foot in the door. The worm has definitely started turning, with good architects winning plum jobs and the best new Chinese courses much better than those thrown up in previous years.

Leading the way is the new Lava Fields course at the Mission Hills Resort on Hainan Island. Designed by Brian Curley, the mastermind behind 9 other courses here, Lava Fields features the rare (for China) mix of high-quality and sophisticated shaping with really interesting ground movement and strategic design. It's the best course that I’ve seen in China, and its success serves to condemn those in the industry all too fond of telling me that you can’t create great golf here.]]></description>
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		<title>Signature Architect or Signature Designer?</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2010/12/16/signature-architect-or-signature-designer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Circulating the golf industry in China at the moment are rumours that England's Paul Casey is to receive a seven figure sum for putting his name to an IMG course on Hainan Island, while 21-year old Rory McIlroy is apparently set to receive even more (approx. $1.2 million) to co-’design’ a new course near the Olympic precinct in Beijing. McIlroy’s deal is said to include at least two site visits.]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all Armchair Architects &#8211; the Mission Hills Fantasy Hole Competition</title>
		<link>http://planetgolfusa.com/blog/2010/12/16/calling-all-armchair-architects-the-mission-hills-fantasy-hole-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World’s largest golf club, Mission Hills in China, has announced plans to offer armchair architects the opportunity to design three holes on its forthcoming Icon Course, which will be built in 2011 at the incredible new 5-star Mission Hills Resort on Hainan Island.

Lead architect Brian Curley is arguably the most daring and inventive designer since Pete Dye, and he is asking contestants in the Fantasy Hole Competition to submit ideas for a par three, par four and par five hole. Curley wants the Icon Course to make a big visual impression, and is seeking entries that are as radical and ‘out there’ as possible.]]></description>
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