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		<title>&#8220;You can’t have that many Mission Hills and have it make sense&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Golf Course Architecture magazine recently published a 2,600-word quote-packed story by Adam Lawrence that gives a nice overview of the whys and hows of China&#8217;s current boom in golf course development. Of course, no one seems to agree on what ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We had to explain to him what all those little balls in the backyard were&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the September 13 issue of Forbes Asia Ron Gluckman files a profile of the Chus — dubbed the &#8220;first family&#8221; of golf in China by the magazine for their massive resorts in Shenzhen and Hainan. Gluckman even managed to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy Reid: China &#8220;not the panacea that people think&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of Global Golf Post1 features a refreshingly candid interview with China-based golf instructor Cindy Reid, which may help temper some of the more pie-in-the-sky beliefs about the growth of golf here. A couple choice quotes: GGP: What ...]]></description>
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		<title>CNN.com zeros in on Mission Hills Hainan (and quotes me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in July, CNN.com ran a story entitled &#8220;Green fury over China&#8217;s golfing Hawaii,&#8221; which looked looked at golf development on Hainan Island — especially the massive Mission Hills project there — from an environmental perspective. Reporter Sam Sheringham interviewed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;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 ...]]></description>
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		<title>A different look at Hainan (er, &#8220;Southern China&#8221;)</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 ...]]></description>
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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 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ian Poulter sings high praise for Shanghai&#8217;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 ...]]></description>
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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. ...]]></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 ...]]></description>
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