Sentences with phrase «than a golf course»

«I'm hard - pressed to think of many cases where there isn't a higher or better use than a golf course for the site,» said Jeff Woolson, managing director of the golf and resort group at CBRE Group.

Not exact matches

«I've maintained for a very long time that this kind of myth about more business being done on the golf course than anywhere else isn't a myth.»

Located adjacent to the 18 - hole Nk» Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course, the new Tuscan - style resort will offer more than 350 units when complete.

The only thing better than hitting a hole - in - one on the golf course is hitting one off your 200 - foot megayacht.

In an interview, he laughed while claiming that he's spent more than $ 350,000 on golf clubs — and those were just the receipts he could find — so sinking $ 12 million (so far) into a club manufacturer is par for the course.

There were more than 500 golf courses in China in 2013, according to state media reports, with up to 400,000 regular players.

To help inspire my fellow golf - lovers who spend more time in the office than on the course, here are 10 quotes about golf that can easily be applied to corporate life.

Beyond Rogers Sugar, the Belkin family's interests include a golf course and more than 3,700 residential units in the United States — but the fortune started with a printing press.

For those inclined toward more traditional retirement activities, the town won't disappoint: It has no fewer than 10 public golf courses.

HOW TO DEAL: The golf course is often called the outdoor boardroom, but Post says that's less about sealing deals than «establishing relationships that you can build business on from there.»

I'd rather play golf here with people I like than at the fanciest golf course in the world.

This year's tournament was again held at The Ritz - Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes where a more than full field of 152 golfers enjoyed a unique on - course experience that included foot golf, golf ball cannon and speed play novelty holes, food trucks and on - course entertainment by trick shot specialist Brett Cleverdon followed by a celebration luGolf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes where a more than full field of 152 golfers enjoyed a unique on - course experience that included foot golf, golf ball cannon and speed play novelty holes, food trucks and on - course entertainment by trick shot specialist Brett Cleverdon followed by a celebration lugolf, golf ball cannon and speed play novelty holes, food trucks and on - course entertainment by trick shot specialist Brett Cleverdon followed by a celebration lugolf ball cannon and speed play novelty holes, food trucks and on - course entertainment by trick shot specialist Brett Cleverdon followed by a celebration lunch.

Powers knows that more clergy are lost to the golf course or a second round of drinks than are tempted by a parishioner's bed.

Sitting on 15 acres of rolling parkland, with an adjacent golf course, The Westin Prince is just minutes from downtown Toronto and within five miles of more than two dozen major corporations including Kraft, Sunoco, IBM, McDonald's and SAP.

The Temecula Valley is home to more than a dozen world class championship golf courses from legendary course designers including Robert Trent Jones, Pete Dye, Ted Robinson and Jack Nicholas.

Temecula Creek Inn's 27 - Hole championship golf course is surrounded by more than 300 acres of natural beauty — dramatic elevation changes, majestic mountain views, and sunshine.

The company's portfolio features more than 9,200 guest rooms, 18 golf courses and 16 full - service spas.

Grand Casino Hinckley has more than 2,400 slot machines, blackjack, poker and bingo as well as a championship golf course, outdoor amphitheater and luxury spa.

The resort features 2,714 lavish guest rooms and suites, more than 111,000 square feet of state - of - the - art casino space, 14 casual and fine dining restaurants, a spa and salon and an on - site 18 - hole golf course.

In a career spanning more than four decades, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has designed more than 270 golf courses in more than 40 countries on six continents.

Mark O'Meara, who plays America's most revered golf course better than anybody else, offers a hole - by - hole plan of attack for the upcoming U.S. Open

With more than 160 courses, some that embrace mountain and jungle settings, others that take in ocean and desert backdrops, golf in Mexico is all about variety.

In 25 short years, Los Cabos has morphed from a sleepy sportfishing town with one government - owned nine - hole course to a genuine, albeit pricey, golf mecca, with more than a dozen championship courses open for play and more on the books.

In Malaya a king shielded by an umbrella (above) turns golf into a daily rite, while in Japan 2 million novices are assailing more than 300 courses.

«Then it pretty much went into Tiger and it was Tiger for a long, long time... If he's playing well and he's healthy then there's no individual in the world who amazes me more than him on the golf course.»

He also knows this golf course better than just about anyone and he has looked good on the practice tee.

With more than a dozen championship courses beckoning, and more on the way, Los Cabos is a big - time golf destination.

He grew up in Laurel, Neb., a town of 1,000 with a Dairy Queen, an eight - lane bowling alley and a nine - hole golf course that was little more than a bunch of flags stuck in a field.

«I think I need to play a little bit; potentially might play some more golf rather than go to the range and kind of free up on the golf course,» Scott said.

Still in the early stages, she is focusing on more than just golf to determine where she might spend four years in the classroom and on the course.

Well» ¦ other than a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to play the greatest golf course ever.

This is obviously a different golf course than it was in»05 and» 99, however.

Oliver thinks more than ever of sunny Texas golf courses, and of his ongoing swing transition («The transition is: I need to fix it»), and of his sons, who are now 10 and eight and rambunctious, and could use a father who no longer goes on 10 - day road trips.

«I've never had anybody tell me they like it more than the Old Course,» says Brad Doyle, who until last month was the longtime director of golf at Grand Cypress.

This is a guy who's added more money to the pockets of his peers than probably every other player to walk golf courses in the last 20 years combined, completely revolutionizing the sport.

Tiger Woods returned to competitive golf on Thursday, and competitors (past and present) from the wide world of sports were absolutely giddy about the latest comeback for the golfer who, more than anyone in the game's history and perhaps in all of professional athletics, mesmerizes fans with his every move on and off the course.

It's been more than nine months since Austin Smotherman fired a 1 - under par 71 at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach to snag a Top 5 finish at the California Interscholastic Federation boys golf state championship tournamGolf Course in Pebble Beach to snag a Top 5 finish at the California Interscholastic Federation boys golf state championship tournamgolf state championship tournament.

«This course is better than I am, but today showed how I beat it,» said Watson, who agreed to torture himself in the elite 18 - player field at Albany Golf Course when Jason Day withdrew to spend more time with his family and watch the Packers stun the Lions on the last play of Thursday night's game in Decourse is better than I am, but today showed how I beat it,» said Watson, who agreed to torture himself in the elite 18 - player field at Albany Golf Course when Jason Day withdrew to spend more time with his family and watch the Packers stun the Lions on the last play of Thursday night's game in DeCourse when Jason Day withdrew to spend more time with his family and watch the Packers stun the Lions on the last play of Thursday night's game in Detroit.

The revised proposal calls for 14 acres to be used to expand and reconfigure the 18 - hole golf course, rather than add nine holes, as previously proposed.

His search for the audit figures was spurred by a plan to repay more than $ 200,000 from the golf course fund to the recreation and corporate funds, a transfer he said will leave the golf course without enough money to make it through the winter.

Both of the Park District's two golf courses, Springbrook and Naperbrook, were open about 30 days longer in 1994 than the previous year, said Jeff Nack, director of golf services.

The district now consists of more than 2,500 acres that contain 140 parks and two golf courses.

Slowing down stormwater runoff from the course is expected to help more than 130 homes next to the golf course that experience flooding problems during big rainstorms, said Joseph Kenney, Glenview's director of community development.

In 1980, Warren Park's golf course was officially dedicated in honor of Robert A. Black (1896 - 1978), Chief Engineer to the Chicago Park District for more than thirty years.

At issue is a recommendation by Park District staff to transfer slightly more than $ 227,000 from the golf course fund to the corporate and recreation funds.

The condo we stayed in was beautiful and bigger than my first apartment with a view of the golf course.

A sports complex proposed for Thunderbird Golf Course in Barrington is little more than an architect's rendering, but it already has prompted threats of legal action.

Flubaker has asked the park board to consider changing the non-development agreement, which says the owners of Thunderbird shall not develop or ask that Thunderbird be developed for a purpose other than as a public golf course.

Unexpected costs, especially the state - mandated archeological study that ended up costing more than $ 300,000 when Native American artifacts and a burial site were discovered on land earmarked for the golf course, made the project more expensive, former park commissioner Phil Landry said.

Renovating the bunkers at Arrowhead Golf Club's three courses will cost the Wheaton Park District about $ 50,000 more than it had originally planned.