Golf Back in Cuba
Golf back in Cuba? Maybe.
According to The Associated Press, Britain's Esencia Hotels and Resorts CEO Andrew Macdonald had investors looking at a stretch of land where he plans to raise $300 million to build the Carbonera Country Club and a hotel/villa/apartment development.
The company was supposed to break ground last year, but is still waiting. Macdonald's group hopes to bring tourists into a country that once had a dozen courses and hosted an annual professional event in the 1950s.
Only one course -- the Havana Golf Club has survived. The nine-hole course uses tree branches for flagsticks.
The only course built since the revolution took five years to build, was completed in 1999 and was financed by the Cuban government.
Source: www.pgatour.com/
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