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The Rotary Club of Fort McMurray hopes to break ground on an 18-hole, Les Furber-designed golf course next year, in the hope of opening it in 2012.

The championship-length track, which could someday be joined by another nine, will take shape on part of a municipally owned 500-acre parcel near the airport in Fort McMurray, in northeastern Alberta.

The course is being built in conjunction with a large community called Saline Creek, in the southern part of the city. Saline Creek will have 6,800 houses, a village center, four schools, and other attractions.

Furber, who apprenticed with Robert Trent Jones, is based in Canmore, Alberta. He’s designed several courses in Canada, including the first course at the Predator Ridge resort in Kelowna, along with Varadero Golf Course in Varadero, Cuba, two courses in the Czech Republic, and another in St. Moritz, Switzerland.