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Article: Hole with a View.(Interview)
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
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- June 1, 2000
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The thing that Michael Ruettgers really likes about the 12th hole at the Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale, Ireland, is the view. "It's like being on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach, only higher," says the 57-year-old chief executive officer of EMC Corp. "Imagine being not just 20 feet but 250 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, with water all around and these incredible sea cliffs. It's all so dramatic and that's what makes that hole my favorite."
Located on the South coast of Ireland, Old Head sits on a 220-acre, windswept promontory that sometimes gets so shrouded in fog that it has to close, lest any of the players or caddies walk right off the rocks. (It also happens ...