Greg Norman Golf Course Design and El Desafio Mountain Resort Announce First Greg Norman Course in Argentina

January 23rd, 2008
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Greg Norman Golf Course Design and El Desafio Mountain Resort today announced that they have entered into an agreement for Greg Norman to design an 18-hole championship course at the El Desafio Mountain Resort.El Desafío Mountain Resort (www.eldesafioresort.com) is a unique luxury development encompassing an entire mountain of 1,050 hectares (2,500 acres) in the Province of Neuquen, Argentine Patagonia. Master-planned to guarantee the preservation of the environment, local culture and…Press: Business Wire

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MONDAY PROFILE, Golf club maker is once again a driving force

December 17th, 2007
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Making a golf club goes way beyond a mere profession for Jesse Ortiz “It’s my life,” Ortiz said of his passion to fashion golf clubs. “This has to be more than a job.”And Ortiz has been immersed in that golf design life for the past 40 years. The East Bay entrepreneur started designing golf clubs in 1967. As a teenager, Ortiz helped his parents and sister in the family club-making business, Orlimar Golf…Press: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)

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One of a kind Black Sheep Golf Club stands out from crowd

September 3rd, 2007
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Out in nowhere, Black Sheep Golf Club is definitely somewhere any golfer would want to be. Only it’s fairly easy to miss off Seavey Road in rural Sugar Grove, which is kind of the point. The club is hundreds of acres lost in the corn and the hundred or so members are lost in the golf.That is the point.The club’s 27 holes, the baby of St. Charles designer David Esler and Lisle lawyer and developer Vince Solano, Sr., look as though they were lifted off the…Press: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)

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Renaissance Golf Club Under New Ownership

July 24th, 2007
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PRNewswire — Renaissance Golf Club is pleased to announce that the Club was purchased for $11.9 million on Friday, July 13, 2007.First National of America was the original lender for the project and knows the unique private golf experience Renaissance Golf Club provides on Boston’s North Shore. First National has extensive experience in the golf world and remains dedicated to the golf industry. The company is committed to improving golf play and operations for members of clubs…Press: PR Newswire (USA)