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| Greg Norman visits Jumeirah Golf Estates With construction well underway on the first phase of Jumeirah Golf Estates, Greg Norman, Nakheel's lead golf course designer, inspected the progress of his Fire and Earth courses. Norman visited the site which lies approximately 22km south west of Dubai city centre to observe progress in the initial stages of grading works. The Great White Shark assessed the completed works and used the opportunity to visualise how the golf courses will be laid out and how they will ultimately relate to the planned residential communities which comprise Phase A of the project. Jumeirah Golf Estates will feature four world-class championship golf courses individually themed around the elements of nature. Greg Norman will design Fire and Earth, current world number two Vijay Singh will design Water, while another exciting announcement on the Wind course is expected later in the year. In the short space of a month, Enabling Works contractor Al Naboodah Contracting has completed site clearance and initial rough grading to almost 30 percent of the Earth course. Meanwhile, the tenders for construction of the golf courses themselves have been floated, with expected commencement in early July 2006, and detailed design of the infrastructure for the residential community is also in progress. Both golf courses will be constructed concurrently and are scheduled for opening in late 2007. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |