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Article: DNR to let experts decide golf courses: ; Consultant urges 10 be built

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May 26, 2000
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Natural Resources Director John Rader says he is going to let the economic development professionals decide which golf courses out of 10 recommended by a national firm should be built around the state. Rader has been proposing a golf trail like the Robert Trent Jones Trial in Alabama, and DNR had decided four courses out of the 10 recommendations would be a good number as a start. Private developers would have to build them. The Alabama trail has 22 courses.

Other states have homes, including a retirement community, around golf courses along with commercial shops, and Rader said "that could be a good asset to West Virginia."

"I'd like to see activities around the golf ...

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