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Журнал "Киевские ведомости"
Как
мы со Степаном Бендерой искали в болоте потеряный
мячик
Говорят, что гольф - единственная игра, которую
рекомендуют старичкам - особенно тем кто перенес
инфаркт. Наверное, поэтому его так любят капиталисты.
Ведь, как известно, акулы бизнеса сплошь и рядом
долгожители. В желудке трубочка, в сердце батарейка,
наследники - уже сами дедушки, а мироед знай молодою
женой тешится, правда, в целях безопасности принимает
ее исключительно наружно.
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Дніпропетровськ
"вдягає" гольф
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was all sports Sept. 1 as Gary Chaiken takes a swing and Walter
Prochorenko looks on during an
afternoon of pitch-and-putt near Obolon Show Park; while taras
Demyanenko competes at the Kyiv Open tournament at Nauka Stadium.
As Published in the
Kyiv Post 5 September 2002
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Destination
Eurasia:
Building
Infrastructure for Tourism.
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Oleg
Korban finds time for business and sports.
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 When
asked what it takes to attract foreign inward investment,
Armand Hammer replied limos and golf courses. Foreign investors
are not in a particular hurry to do business in Ukraine, perhaps
because we do not have any golf courses. But we do have a
Golf Federation, even a team of players (amateurs), even a
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Allard Touwen
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Allard
Touwen, Chief Executive Officer of Philips in Ukraine, is
a 58-year-young Dutch gentleman brimming with energy, easily
amused, and with an enviable sense of humour. His innate
optimism survived twenty years in the tropics and living
in Communist Bulgaria and Soviet Ukraine. He worked on the
Fiji islands, in Tanzania and on Curacao in the Caribbean.
In fact, Mr. Touwen enjoys the memories. When asked which
of the environs was the hardest to cope with, exotic or
Ukrainian, Allard Touwen replied without hesitation:
"Work
is the same everywhere, except that your business climate
-well, it's totally different, considerably less favourable."
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Ukrainian
Golf: Stuck in the Rough?
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Walter
Prochoren (pictured) is a Ukrainian-American golfing enthusiast
with a serious handicap - he's stuck in the very middle
of a country which is totally devoid of golf courses! As
General Director of the GOIden Gate Golf Club project, it's
a problem he is attempting to resolve. He's not the only
one either. There are a number of projects currently under
way which are geared at building golf courses in and around
Kyiv.
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question often arises why Ukraine remains one of the last
countries in the region without a golf project. Russia, Poland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary and even Moldova already have one or more golf courses
apiece and have a combined total of some 61 courses.
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"Golf
isn't just a game, it's a way of attracting capital."
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addition to his construction and media pro-jects, New Jersey
businessman Walter Prochorenko has been actively working for
the past seven years to introduce golf in Ukraine. Directly
or as a consultant, Prochorenko, 58, has been involved in
such projects as 12 Oaks at Koncha Zaspa, the Kyiv Country
Club, the King's Island Golf and Tennis Club, and the Golden
Gate Golf Club. In 1976, his company began to develop projects
overseas, starting with military bases in Guam, Okinawa, Korea,
and tile Philippines. Later, it subcontracted on multi-billion
dollar commercial projects in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait,
Vietnam, Japan, and the UAE. The biggest, Prochorenko says,
were the holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. But they also did
schools, hotels, microwave towers -and, of course, golf courses.
Although Prochorenko has played the game since he was in his
thirties, his real love is the golf courses themselves: "The
design aspect, the out-of-doors, putting it all together.'
He puts in a persuasive case for golf as a barometer of investment
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Golden
Gate Golf Club - Kyiv, Ukraine.
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