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Adam_F_Collins

Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« on: June 27, 2007, 09:15:12 PM »
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David_Tepper

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Re:Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2007, 09:35:01 PM »
With this development, the other developemt under way and Highland Links, it looks like Cape Breton could really become a golf destination worth the effort to get there. I think that is a good thing.
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Wayne_Kozun

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Re:Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2007, 09:44:36 PM »
Faldo's previous effort in Canada, The Rock in Muskoka, was so well received that it is closed for the 2007 season in order to be reworked since almost everyone found the course too difficult.

This course is being built primarily for a European audience who are buying vacation homes for the "rustic Canadian experience".  The strategy may fall down since, outside of the UK and Sweden, Europeans don't seem to play golf nor do many of them know what a quality golf course is.  How many Germans or Swiss would know the difference between a good and bad course - they seem to be the target market.

See stories by Robert Thompson http://www.ontgolf.ca/g4g/2007/03/27/five-question-for-new-cape-breton-golf-developer/ and Rick Young http://www.scoregolf.com/articles/news/January-2007/Nick-Faldo-to-design-course-on-Cape-Breton-Island.cfm .

I am sure one of our esteemed Moderators can enlighten us more!
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Tony Ristola

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Re:Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2007, 01:46:33 AM »
About the Ontario project: About 700,000 Germans play golf. Swiss and Austrians can't add a ton to that. It would be odd to depend on those markets to drive a development abroad, though they do love the vast open and rugged spaces of North America. The Swedish season is so short that I believe they would save their vacation time to escape to warmer climates in the winter. Shorter trips in the summer within the continent seem more attractive than long haul flights.
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brad_miller

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Re:Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2007, 05:49:01 AM »
Lucky for the developers the intended audience can't tell good golf from bad. If it is anything like the Faldo project in Hutchinson KA (Cottenwood Hills) that will need to be the case. I don't even think the next owner of the Hutch project will make money as most of what has been done in Kansas seems a least to me to have been bad. I thought Faldo and team was better than this??
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Tony Ristola

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Re:Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2007, 06:34:41 AM »
I was wondering why Faldo and German developers. Then it clicked.

One of the best known courses in the country is at Sporting Club Berlin, now know as Arosa I believe, and the crown jewel of the three courses is the IMG EGD Faldo course. My bet is they are banking on the popularity of that course, and that his name is known among German golfers. Still, I can't think of many people heading to a remote island that has Scottish type weather. Then again, who would have thought some of the remote success stories would have fared so well?

Is sport salmon fishing still alive and well there? That would be a pull almost on par with golf.

I wish them well. Golf doesn't need developments that go kaput.

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Dan Herrmann

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Re:Faldo Design in Cape Breton
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2007, 06:56:54 AM »
It's out near Louisbourg.  That's a bit of a hike from Cape Breton Highlands, but it does have the fort.

Personally, I prefer Inverness County.
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