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	<title>Par for China</title>
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	<description>The development of golf in China by Dan Washburn</description>
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		<title>Where&#039;s the other Pebble Beach golf club? China, of course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think it&#8217;s just another in a long line of Chinese golf courses choosing to &#8220;borrow&#8221; the name of a well known course in the United States (see Pine Valley, Mission Hills, et al.), but according to the most recent issue of China International Business, you&#8217;d be wrong:
When the owners of California&#8217;s Pebble Beach Golf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/745</link>
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		<title>A different look at Hainan (er, &quot;Southern China&quot;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the silence here recently. I just got out from under a variety of deadlines, including my latest story for Golf World. That piece, like several of my recent efforts, features China&#8217;s Hainan Island, perhaps the busiest place in the world in terms of golf  course construction. Coincidentally, I happened upon an episode [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/737</link>
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		<title>Norman and Woods headed to China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s Greg Norman and Elin Woods, mind you.
A couple days ago, Australia&#8217;s Daily Telegraph reported that the country&#8217;s highest-earning sportsman was closing his only office in Australia to &#8220;chase the Asian golfing dollar through China.&#8221; The paper continued, &#8220;[T]he design company has opened a new sales and marketing office in Beijing, China, signalling Asia as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/721</link>
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		<title>Ian Poulter sings high praise for Shanghai&#039;s greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Wall Street Journal, we learn that English pro golfer Ian Poulter is &#8220;a massive fan of Asian food.&#8221; As if that wasn&#8217;t already enough insight for you, he goes on to rank five of his favorite courses in Asia. Two are in China (and they may be the only two China courses he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/716</link>
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		<title>Cost of Mission Hills Hainan? US$4.4 billion (so far)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least according to this Bloomberg story:
Mission Hills Group, owner of the world’s largest golf club, will boost investment sixfold in a golfing complex on China’s Hainan island as the nation’s economic rebound spurs a tourism and property boom.
Mission Hills, based in Shenzhen, the southern city adjacent to Hong Kong, is to spend a further [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/704</link>
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		<title>What do you do after coaching Tiger? Head to China.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Tiger Woods&#8217; career appears to be headed south, Hank Haney — Tiger&#8217;s now former swing coach — looks to be headed east:
Having the world&#8217;s No. 1 as a client magnified his profile dramatically. He has added the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy. The program prepares junior players for college scholarships with golf training, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/701</link>
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		<title>Hugh Grant, Matthew McConaughey and Mission Hills Hainan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I told you a PR offensive was forthcoming. Here&#8217;s the latest from the AFP:
Movie stars Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey will headline a bevy of celebrities taking part in a new tournament in China that will offer the richest individual prize in Asian golf.
The Hollywood A-listers will play in the pro-am at the Mission Hills [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/696</link>
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		<title>Quick notes on golf&#039;s World Cup moving to Mission Hills Hainan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I&#8217;m a little late on this, but I am, ironically, on assignment in Hainan. Yesterday, the Asian Tour announced and then the AP followed with news that golf&#8217;s World Cup is changing homes, and in 2011 will move from Mission Hills in Shenzhen to the new Mission Hills mega-complex on Hainan. There will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/686</link>
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		<title>Time to come up with a euphemism for &quot;villa&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Bloomberg ran a story entitled &#8220;China Tightens Land Purchase Rules, Bans Villas.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a snippet:
China is requiring a down payment for land purchases equal to 50 percent of a plot’s price and prohibited the supply of land for villas as the government sought to increase affordable housing. &#8230;
The Land Ministry said in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/668</link>
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		<title>Same as it ever was</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times:
Pressing ahead with its clampdown on runaway economic growth, the Chinese Government has banned new golf courses and announced that work on some luxury hotels and villas will be halted even though they are already partly built. &#8230;
The document said the Government would impose strict limits on the amount of land [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parforchina.com/660</link>
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