Golf Course Review - The Golf Club at Lansdowne
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Golf Process Review - The Golf Club at Lansdowne
Lansdowne, VA (Sports Network) - FACTS AND STATS: Headway Architect: Robert Trent Jones Jr (1991), Redesign (2003-04). Year Opened: Summer, 1991. Locale: Lansdowne, Virginia. Slope: 145. Rating: 74.7. Par: 72. Yardage: 7,063.
Hole in the wall-by-Hole (JONES COURSE):
1 - Par 4 368 Yds 10 - Par 4 379 Yds
2 - Par 4 397 Yds 11 - Par 5 580 Yds
3 - Par 4 353 Yds 12 - Par 4 441 Yds
4 - Par 3 225 Yds 13 - Par 3 210 Yds
5 - Par 5 610 Yds 14 - Par 4 409 Yds
6 - Par 4 442 Yds 15 - Par 4 391 Yds
7 - Par 3 177 Yds 16 - Par 5 533 Yds
8 - Par 5 504 Yds 17 - Par 3 203 Yds
9 - Par 4 424 Yds 18 - Par 4 417 Yds
Par 36 3,500 YdsPrimarilyPar 36 3,563 Yds
Key Events Held: Coast Guard Invitational (2009).
Awards Won: 4 stars by Golf Tolerate - Best Places to Play (2006-09), Top-100 Golf Resorts in the Fraternity - Conde Nast Traveler, Top-10 Courses in the Mid-Atlantic by Tee Notwithstanding (1992).
Course Architect: Greg Norman (2005). Year Opened: September, 2005. Finding: Lansdowne, Virginia. Slope: 141. Rating: 75.8. Par: 72. Yardage: 7,332.
Hot water-by-Hole (NORMAN COURSE):
1 - Par 4 413 Yds 10 - Par 4 421 Yds
Harry Winston sees red, but dollar stores deliver green
Notice of the times?
The consumer is balking at quarter-million-dollar diamond rings in the disciplinary problem of global retail "salons" operated by confidence jeweller Harry Winston, but they're snapping up the new $2 items in the 600 Dollarama stores across Canada.
Dollarama is doing so well it is planning an primary public share offering, the company said yesterday.
The two retailers reported wildly bizarre results at the end of a week of mixed reports on the back-to-school shopping salt.
Considered a harbinger of Christmas holiday spending, which can remedy or break a retailer, back-to-school sales were sluggish in August, but showed signs of picking up in September, several retailers said.
"The consumer does not become available ready to lead the way out of the recession," Keith Howlett, an analyst at Desjardins Securities, wrote in a scrutinization report yesterday.
Although consumer confidence is improving, Howlett said it will take vocation growth, driven by industrial production, public works and exotic demand to get people to loosen their purse strings.
The top end of the market-place has been hit hardest, especially in the U.S., Bob Gannicott, chairman and chief supervision of Harry Winston Diamond Corp., told analysts on a talk call yesterday.
"Large-ticket items have suffered as the men struggles to find its feet again," Gannicott said.
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