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Byline: Kevin Oklobzija Twins Hills Golf Course, a staple on Rochester's public golf scene for 52 years, has been sold to 5719 W Ridge Road, LLC, an enterprise owned by [...]

There is much speculation that Guinness will sell the Gleneagles Hotel and golf course. Although Guinness denies it has any plans to sell, there is evidence that the hotel would be sold at the right price as the company aims to concentrate on its core businesses. At an estimated price of 50 to 60 million pounds sterling, there are few prospective buyers and a Japanese bid is the most likely. Guinness has tried various schemes to profit from ownership of Gleneagles but with no success.

San Diego-based golf course owner and operator Heritage Golf Group said July 30 it has signed a deal to buy TPC Michigan in Dearborn and two courses in other states [...]

The game of golf, which hasn't been kind to public REIT investors in recent years, is attracting the interest of private-equity investors. The biggest deal in the history of the [...]

Metaldyne: Deals may clear way for merger Metaldyne Corp. on Friday said it has formed agreements in principle with two groups of bondholders who had objected to its pending acquisition [...]

Whitney deal made, waiting on transfer of liquor license Arthur 'Bud'' Liebler said Tuesday that he has reached an agreement to purchase The Whitney, but said the deal for the [...]

Bloomfield Township-based Wabeek Country Club is the latest metro Detroit golf course to change hands, after being sold to a businessman who plans to operate the course and clubhouse as [...]

Goldman Sachs is snapping up another Japanese golf-course operator, Ryokuei Group, which owns 20 golf courses, three hotels and six hot-spring spas-and $2.6 billion in debts, including 167 billion yen [...]

Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Course sold for $4.8 million at a foreclosure auction in January. That's less than a year since 82 people became sick and one person died after drinking [...]

THE GWB LIST Biggest golf sales of 2001 1 Ritz-Carlton Kapalua (Kapalua, Hawaii), $144 million 2 Legends Golf Resort, Heritage GC, Oyster Bay GL, Tiburon GC (S.C., N.C., Neb.), $88 […]

The spirit of North Dakota's legendary horse thief, Red Mike, seemed alive and well last week during the auction of The Links of North Dakota at Red Mike Resort. Not […]

The Budd Co. plant, a 188-acre former manufacturing facility that was recently transformed into an 18-hole golf course near Northeast Philadelphia, has been sold for roughly $6 million. The golf [...]

Golf course operator PGA European Tour Courses has revealed it is in informal takeover talks with Monaco-based businessman David Warren. Warren is understood to be working on a possible bid […]

TWO club members challenge ECHO offer PENN HILLS -- Two longtime members of Green Oaks Country Club have made an offer to buy the club and transform it into a [...]

When 70 golf courses of its competitor, Family Golf Center, went up for auction, Senior Tour Players, Inc. needed fast access to funding in order to bid on as many [...]

United Development Corp. has sold Mill Creek Country Club to Trajal USA Inc., an American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Trajal Hospitality and Tourism College. Exact terms were not disclosed, but [...]

There are golf clubs without real estate, and then there are golf clubs without terra firma. That is what they have going at Scotland's Earlston GC, where officials recently purchased […]

Scottsdale's GolfMatrix, a golf course management company, recently signed deals to manage Woodlake Resort and Golf Club and The Carolina Golf Club, both in the Pinehurst area of North Carolina. [...]

Booming business: Golf clubs show strong growth nationwide HOUSTON -- ClubCorp, a Dallas-based firm that owns or operates more than 220 golf courses, private business clubs, country clubs and resorts [...]

Lakeland's Meadowbrook Golf Group has bought its 18th golf course. The company purchased Sabal Point Country Club outside of Orlando for an undisclosed sum. The purchase is the ninth golf [...]

* Greens.com, an online tee-time reservations service with Portland ties and failing finances, sold its assets to investors doing business as Greens Technology Inc. The assets of Arizona's Greens.com, which [...]

When MGM Grand achieved a takeover of all outstanding Mirage Resorts stock in March, it gained not just five casino hotels in Nevada and Mississippi, but also Shadow Creek, the [...]

They will always be Pete, Dick and Clint, three Northern California kids who came of age at Pebble Beach. Pete was a country club caddie, barreling up to Pebble with [...]

In real estate, they like to say, location is everything. But for Chicago Heights CC, location has forced the members of the 88-year-old private club to put its nine-hole course […]

PATASKALA -- The verdant fairways of the Broadview Golf Course could soon be traveled by more than foursomes of hackers trying to track down errant tee shots. Course owner Charlotte [...]

Fayetteville-based Lindsey Management Co. Inc., owned by developer Jim Lindsey, is poised to expand its thriving golf course operation with a notable acquisition of an established course in central Arkansas. [...]

Pecan Valley Golf Club, on of the most storied and old courses in San Antonio, is the latest acquisition of Boerne-based Foresight Golf LLC. Foresight Golf acquired the historic property from Century Golf Partners for an undisclosed amount. Plans for expanding and upgrading the course are also discussed.

The efforts done by Memphis home owners to acquire Cordova Club Corp. are presented.

The efforts done by Sequoia Golf LLC to acquire public courses of Woodlands Development Co. are presented.

Tamp Bay based Westchase Golf Club owned by the Crown Golf is selling its golf courses in Florida region for capitalizing on the lucrative market. The firm owns five golf clubs in Florida and manages many other courses.

WHAT PRIVATE INVESTOR ALAN BOWES DOES NOT know about running a pub or hotel can be scribbled on the back of a beer mat. In a long and varied career, [...]

A Dallas-based affiliate of Dallas-based Arnold Palmer Golf Management acquired seven golf courses in Houston and nine others in various parts of the U.S. from Santa Monica, California-based American Golf Corp. - one of the nationEs largest golf operators. The sale, estimated at $107 million, was one of the biggest non-resort golf deals in the country during the last twelve months. The local links include Bear Creek Golf World, Longwood Golf Club, Pecan Grove Plantation Country Club, Southwyck Golf Club, Sweetwater Country Club, Walden on Lake Houston, and Willow Fork Country Club.

Ridge Club announced that Crest Hills Country Club, a 133-acre property, will be offered for sale at between $5 million to $7 million. Ridge Club was formed after Crest Hills merged with the Losantiville Country Club approximately a year ago.

Waukewan Golf Club, an 18-hole course in Center Harbor, has been sold by the Hale family to Tim and Jill Noe of Alton. The course had been listed for sale [...]

Builders want to buy the 147-acre Thunderbirds Golf Course at the base of South Mountain and convert it to houses. The 18-hole course is scheduled to be sold at public [...]

ClubCorp has sold five golf courses, including two in the Metroplex, to Evergreen Alliance Golf Ltd., a Dallas firm that owns and operates courses nationwide. The deal included three courses in Houston as well as Frisco's Plantation Golf Club and Fort WorthEs Golf Club at Fossil Creek.

Distant companies acquired four local golf courses of Houston, during the earlier part of November 2002 with even bigger designs on Houston's overbuilt golf market. Industry observers view the sale of the four golf courses as a prelude to even greater acquisition activity in the near future and predict that the serious glut of golf holes in Houston would result in more properties changing hands in Houston.