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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Dutch Docklands, a player in the world of floating technologies, (or  making land where there was no land), has announced plans to build a  $500 million floating golf course off the Maldives coast. While there  are plenty of golf courses that claim to be “on” the water, this one  would quite literally be atop the Indian Ocean.<br />
<a href="http://todayspice.blogspot.in/worlds-most-expensive-golf-course.html"><img alt="golf course" class="img2" height="280" src="http://www.funnymos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/golf-course-5-300x210.jpg" title="golf course" width="400" /></a>The  concept is a series of man-made islands with one or more holes on each,  linked by transparent undersea tunnels. Golfers walk or ride through  these submerged pathways, taking in the seafloor sights while pondering  which iron to use next. And the clubhouse? You’ll have to take an  elevator to the sea bottom to get to it. At half a billion dollars, it  will be by far the most expensive golf course ever built.<br />
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The floating golf mecca, which is scheduled to be open for play in  2013, will be run by industry leader Troon Golf, the gold standard of  international high-end golf course and club management. The  yet-to-be-named project is part of a larger government-approved  development which will include 200 villas and about 45 private islands  off the Maldives coast.<br />
In historic terms, our understanding of golf excess first shifted in  1990, when the Las Vegas wunderkind Steve Wynn built mega-course Shadow  Creek. To say no expense was spared in construction is a gross  understatement. It is said Wynn gave architect Tom Fazio a blank check  and a blank desert canvas. Serious earth moving on the 320-acre site  boosted the elevation from less than six feet to more than 213 feet.  Nearly 21,000 fully mature trees, mostly pines and cottonwoods, were  transplanted. While no numbers were released, the best guess in the  business is that Shadow Creek cost about $40 million to build, then the  most expensive course in history. That’s about $70 million today or less  than one-seventh of the proposed Maldives course cost.<br />
These days the title of most expensive golf course on earth belongs  to one of two New Jersey neighbors (private clubs do not have to release  cost reports). The number $250 million has been tossed around for  valuations of Liberty National, the pet project of Reebok founder Paul  Fireman. The ultra-exclusive course is known for its granite walking  bridges and $500,000 joining free. Nearby Bayonne Golf Club has merely  been rumored to have cost in the $150 million-plus range, mainly due to a  huge undersea dredging project required as part of the permitting. If  the new Dutch Docklands project comes to fruition – even on budget –  these bragging rights will have to move halfway around the world.<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/" target="_blank">Forbes</a> & <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo News</a><br />
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World’s Most Expensive Golf Course

Dutch Docklands, a player in the world of floating technologies, (or making land where there was no land), has announced plans to build a ...