There is a great site in Florence, Oregon. Unfortunately, some guy already built a mediocre course called Sandpines on it.

If I were looking for a great site, I would look near one of the existing great courses like Sand Hills, Praire Dunes, and Pinehurst #2.

tkchap,
This is located due West from the Hermsmeyer property, I think its all of about 45 miles away at the most. Maybe Paul will pick-up on this and post. His property is also a GREAT spot.

Jim Lewis,
Look at those pictues and tell me what you think? 75 miles North of the Sand Hills, and you can go hunting and fishing besides golf! (I'm neither a hunter or a fisherman)

Here's the lowdown on some other Oregon golf courses that are in the works or proposed.

  http://www.oregonsgolf.com/Oregon%20Golf%20Course%20News.htm

 Check out this quote by Sundoon GC designer John Fought...
 
 Fought ... "said he believes the course will someday compare favorably to Sand Hills Golf Club in Mullen, Neb. ..."
  (I hope so!)

  Pictures of land of Sundoon at available  www.Sundoon.com

I'm happy to see William Robinson is still in the biz.  

That Nebraska property is just gorgeous.  I have to admit I am just plain ignorant when it comes to Nebraska.  If were not for Sand Hills, I wouldn't know a whole lot about the topography other than corn

Has anyone driven the ocean parkway on Long Island?  It is the stretch of highway, about 20 miles long, from the Jones Beach tower to the Robert Moses Causeway.  That stretch of land is absolutely amazing and would make for an incredible course.  Of course there is just about no way to get it past the environmental groups.

Craig, I don't live in Hutch, just try to play there a couple of times a year. I believe Faldo's team is doing the work inhouse, Nick Edmund and all, the comment is aimed more at the developer than the archie's. But I have been told, (don't know if it is true) that the course has been rounted and Faldo hasn't been to Hutch from what I have heard.

Tim, the full use of the Belle Haven peninsula might have yeilded quite a course, not sandy soil though.

On the Golspie side of Loch Fleet (the body of water just north of Dornoch) is the village of Littleferry, which is surrounded by an enormous amount of links/dunesland.  In fact, the 4-mile coastline from the Golspie course down to Littleferry is almost all linksland. However, a good portion of the land is a wildlife sanctuary. The rest is a dirt bike race course and a quarry. If only I ruled the world!  

Rich-

I know the area of which you speak. I was not sure if the linksland on the south shore of Loch Fleet was large enough to site a golf course. It would be very interesting to see someone try to put one there. By the way, did you play the new & improved Struie Course at all this summer? What did you think of it?

DT  

David

Get an Ordnance Survey map.  There's enough land there for two golf courses!

Ah Ordnance Survey maps, that's one thing I miss about GB.  Nothing really like them over here, or really anywhere else.

...there's basically a sand belt that borders the piedmont from al to nc,thru pinehurst etc..........great stuff in the fla panhandle too....just waiting........

In Seaside on the Monterey Peninsula there is dunesland right on the bay which is unbelievable.  I don't know who owns it. I played Cypress Point recently with a real estate attorney from Carmel who said there was great interest in the property, but he didn't add much after that.
I also think, every time I drive from Tampa another 100 miles north that the next great golf course might be built there.
Rolling land, thick forests, lakes, rivers.  Lake Jovita, for example, is fine, but it's not what I would envision as the next great course.  

more specifically in CUBA [post-castro] - are two currently closed donald ross courses - havana biltmore (1927) and havana cc (1911)

while the other responses here have found truly beautiful land - i cannot imaging ANY property anywhere having MORE future potential as the two havana properties

on the basis of
i) history (almost 100 years in the instance of havana cc)
ii) proximity to US market (not significantly further than MIAMI to reach)
iii) econcomic interest (what golfer would not want to play a donald ross course that has been inaccessable for 40+ years)
iv)all year round season
v) with modern architectural and scientific technologies now available - these course could be refurbished into a condition better than any other in the carribbean
vi)the mystery of being inaccessable would create a buzz or curiosity factor NO other property could duplicate