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...Caves Valley Golf Club, built in 1991, is a par-71 course that stretches 6,942 yards. Designed by famed golf course architect Tom Fazio, Caves Valley’s biggest challenge was the speed of its greens...
...Encore, even if you don't like to play the tables. If you can tear yourself away from the spa, there's a perfectly pleasant outdoor pool (one section of which allows topless sunbathing, though I demurred); a $500-a-round golf course designed by Tom Fazio and Wynn; and La Rêve, the impressive, water-themed acrobatic show. The beauty of the Wynn is that you don't ever have to leave the grounds of the resort to enjoy yourself for a couple of days. All of Las Vegas is a screaming buy at this point...
...which are nestled in the southern escarpment of the Appalachian mountain range from just north of Greenville, S.C., up to Asheville, N.C. Anthony says that having a known designer adds both value and a comfort level for buyers: "People perceive, and rightly so, that if this is a Fazio golf course, a Nicklaus golf course, that quality runs all through the community." There are two Nicklaus signature courses, two Tom Fazio layouts and one each by Ben Wright and Tom Jackson and another designed by Gary Player, currently under construction at the Cliffs at Mountain Park...
...name designers such as Tom Fazio, Tom Doak, Rees Jones and Ben Crenshaw have all spent time sprucing up older fairways, updating technology and incorporating current golfing trends. Rees (the Open Doctor) Jones, whose nickname refers to his knack for transforming older courses into U.S. Open--worthy playgrounds, says about a third of his projects are fairway refurbishments. "There is a trend now to get away from the modern and build it back in the classical style," says Jones (brother and rival of Robert). He recently remodeled the Highlands Course at the Atlanta Athletic Club...
...Bank of Italy's new governor was accomplished the moment his name was announced - the respected No. 2 man at Goldman Sachs instantly restored credibility to Italy's besmirched financial system. After a six-month drama of piled-up ethical questions and judicial inquiries, longtime central banker Antonio Fazio finally stepped down last month. While several key private Italian bankers are being investigated in probes of two bank takeovers that Fazio green-lighted, Fazio denies any wrongdoing. (Last week, three more financial executives resigned, and the banker closest to Fazio, Gianpiero Fiorani, was interrogated in the Milan prison where...