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Tender issued again for Noida’s second golf course project in Sector 151A

The Noida authority on Thursday issued a tender to select a firm which can be engaged to design and develop horticulture facilities at Noida’s second 18-hole Golf Course proposed in Sector 151A, along the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway. The authority has sanctioned ₹12 crores for the horticulture work to be carried out at this Golf Course. The first 18-hole Golf Course was developed in Sector 38A in the 1990s. “We have issued a tender to invite proposals from interested developers. According to rules, after agencies apply, the authority will finalize one, which will be awarded the contract,” said Indu Prakash Singh, an officer on special duty of the Noida authority, who is heading the horticulture department. The authority had issued the tender in this regard last month as well. However, no developers had shown any interest in the project, said officials. “We have issued this tender a second time. If less than three agencies apply for a project then the authority cannot finalise one out of the one or two which have applied for a project. We hope now enough agencies will apply, after which we can finalise one,” said Singh. The authority, in its 198th…

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A critical perspective on the golf

In the Sept. 11 issue of The Campus, I wrote extensively about the environmental harms of grass lawns, and somewhat less extensively about the ostentatious bourgeois wastefulness and patriarchal white supremacist ideas underlying the imagery of the well-manicured lawn. For a comprehensive understanding of my hatred of grass, refer to that article, titled “Grass is trash.” Since taking this stance on grass, I have thought extensively about the issue and why I find it so viscerally condemnable. My conclusion is this: I blame golf. Golf is trash. Being skilled at golf requires an enormous amount of money and resources compared to other sports, and thus has an air of exclusivity or elitism surrounding it. Golf skills are not taught in school gym classes, which means that kids who want to play golf likely have to pay for lessons rather than merely joining a scholastic team. Having enough extra income to pay for something as inessential to sustaining life as golf lessons is inarguably a privilege, which cannot be ignored in discussions about the talent and discipline that may go into becoming an excellent golfer. For contrast, consider basketball, a sport that can be enjoyed with…

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Denny Hamlin reviews Michael Jordan’s new golf course after playing it with Rickie Fowler

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The good news for NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin is he didn’t lose any money playing golf against pro-Rickie Fowler this week. The bad news for him is he didn’t win any, either. Hamlin, Fowler and former NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip visited Michael Jordan’s new exclusive golf course, Grove XXIII, in Hobe Sound, Florida (near Jupiter), and the defending Daytona 500 champion said he bet Fowler “a lot and ended up with nothing.” “I tied Rickie on the final hole,” Hamlin said Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway. “Thank goodness that got me back square, so that was a lot of fun. But it’s just amazing to see how good the pros are. You think you’ve seen people that are good at their craft; go see a professional athlete do his craft. And it’s just amazing to watch.” Although Hamlin is an avid golfer — he and some other NASCAR drivers are in an amateur (but super serious) league called The Golf Guys Tour — he, unsurprisingly, said Fowler has “an absurd unfair advantage” on the course. “Unfortunately, he uses the same clubs, and he has the same body type,” Hamlin said comparing…

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