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How golf’s newest links sprang up
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nowing what you know now, would you take the job on?” The question lingered in the air as Paul Kimber hesitated for just a fraction. Stood in front of an audience of greenkeepers, as he evaluated what’s probably been
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one of the more challenging projects of his career, the pause was instructive. “Yes,” he intoned, before later striking a warning note of advice.“It’s something that if you care passionately about what you do, you’ve got to leave a few things at the door before you go to work.”
There is little causing more of a stir in the golf world at the moment than the imminent arrival of Dumbarnie Golf Links. Clive Clark’s design, project managed by Kimber on the ground, took a mammoth 350 acres of flat pasture land hugging the Firth of Forth at Leven and transformed it
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