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Mike Young, an Athens, Georgia-based designer, in an interview conducted last fall by Golf Club Atlas:

The international golf market will be profitable in the future, but I do wonder if golf in other countries will face some of the same problems as golf in America. I have seen $5 to $8 million golf courses that end up having only 3,000 rounds played per year. This is done in the name of developing resorts and housing projects modeled after American designs, and although they can build the courses for a reasonable price, they lose money through the annual costs of upkeep. Golf courses are being built in countries where there may not even be a thousand golfers.