Shameless Self-Promotion, june 2011

Match the comment and the person who said it:

A. “The Chinese certainly like to do things big.”

B. “Cuba is where Vietnam was 15 years ago.”

C. “What they need is courses that are playable and fun, so that you want to come back time and again.”

D. “This truly will be golf on a grand scale, and in a magnificent, stage-like setting.”

E. “We have been able to find exciting golf holes that were already there, waiting to be discovered.”

1. Nick Faldo, a British golf designer

2. Sergio Garcia, the golf pro and “signature” course designer

3. Rick Jacobson, a golf architect based in suburban Chicago

4. Richard Mandell, a golf architect based in Pinehurst, North Carolina

5. Chris Nicholas, a Canadian developer

The answers: A. Mandell, B. Nicholas, C. Jacobson, D. Faldo, E. Garcia.

As you may have guessed, these comments were made in five stories published in June's World Edition of the Golf Course Report. They were said, respectively, in reports about Mandell's close encounters with prospective clients in China, a planned 36-hole golf complex in Cuba, Jacobson's ever-growing Chinese golf portfolio, the Rio de Janeiro International Golf Club in Brazil, and the course Garcia is co-designing with Bret Stinson of IMG.

June's World Edition also has the low-down on new courses, additions to existing courses, and significant renovations in England, India, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, St. Thomas, and Singapore.

If you'd like to take a gander at the World Edition for yourself, give me a call at 301/680-9460 or send an e-mail to me at WorldEdition@aol.com.