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B E PASSIONATE—I T’ S

THE O NLY WAY T O

M OVE M OUNTAINS

Building Tr ump

Inte r national Golf Club

hen I decided to build my first golf course, I found a
W good piece of land near my Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm
Beach and decided to go all out. I hired Jim Fazio, one of the
all-time great golf course designers. When he told me he’d have
to move over three million cubic yards of dirt to make the rela-
tively flat land into a spectacular course, I didn’t blink an eye. I
was excited about building my first golf course and ready to
move mountains if necessary.
I did, however, wonder what I’d gotten myself into once
again. Shortly after hearing the three million number, he told

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