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US tycoon Donald Trump insisted his project to build a luxury golf course in Scotland will go ahead, despite a bid to block it by opponents buying land at the heart of the site.

Trump said he was determined to create the “greatest golf course in the world” after flying into Scotland on Wednesday to view progress on the site on the Aberdeenshire coast.

“This will be a masterpiece when it’s completed. As with many of my projects, when it’s completed I think that everybody in this room and more importantly all of Aberdeen and all of Scotland will say thank you,” he said.

But opponents of the £750 million (1.1 billion dollar, 1.2 billion euro) project said they have acquired a one-acre stretch of land in the middle of the resort site, which includes protected sand dunes.

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Sue Edwards, of the Tripping Up Trump campaign group which protested as the tycoon arrived in Aberdeen, said: “You cannot just walk over the homeowners on the estate. These are people who have lived in their homes for years.”

Local resident Michael Forbes, who has refused to sell his home, said: “The Tripping Up Trump campaign has now acquired land at Mill of Menie to defend the homes under threat of compulsory purchase.

“The Trump Organisation will now have to deal with many more objectors than they anticipated.”

Trump struck back, describing Forbes’ property as resembling a “slum”.

“I just wish he would clean up his property, it is a pigsty. It’s terrible, his barn is all rusty and falling down.

“The hotel has the chance to be something really outstanding but it’s awfully hard when a window is overlooking a slum and you see rusting oil cans.”

Trump said his organisation had not yet decided whether it would build the hotel if Forbes refused to sell.

The masterplan for the resort, published this year, will be considered by Aberdeenshire Council later in the year. Councillors have refused to rule out using compulsory purchase orders to remove residents from the land.

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Bryce Molder seems to have struggled lately after a great early spring on the PGA Tour, but Thursday’s opening round at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth in the Crowne Plaza Invitational was more like we’d come to expect from the Conway product.

Molder shot a five-birdie, no-bogey 5-under-par 65 at Colonial and finished Thursday just two shots behind the leaders, Jeff Overton and Jason Bohn.

Molder, teeing off after lunch and in the same pairing with Dardanelle’s John Daly, started on the back nine of the tough Colonial course and parred five holes in a row before his first birdie, the par-4 15th. He added birdies on 18, then 2, 8 and 9 to round out his best round in weeks.

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Molder’s strong play and the windless day in Cowtown must have rubbed off on Daly, too, as the injury-prone big-hitter fired a 4-under 66. Daly, playing on a sponsor’s exemption, had not played since having to withdraw from the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte in the fourth round when his hip gave out. Daly described the injury as requiring his hip to be pushed back into place by a PGA trainer.

Daly also managed a bogey-free round, and had a driving average on the two par-5s of 321 yards, ranking third in the field. Even better, Daly averaged 79 percent in driving accuracy, eighth best among the field. Daly also needed just 26 putts.

That contrasts with Molder, regarded as one of the best putters around, who took 30 putts and was in the lower half of the field, at No. 81. Molder’s precise driving ranked 4th on Thursday, however.

Unlike last week’s field at the Byron Nelson in Irving, Texas, where the highest ranking golfer in the world rankings was 17th, the Colonial features a solid field led by Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, and seven of the top 10 ranked golfers. 

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It’s always hot in North Texas this time of year, but the local golf attraction hasn’t generated this much heat since Annika Sorenstam put her considerable golf game up against the fellows on the PGA Tour seven years ago at the 2003 Colonial Invitational.

In fact, on the chili-rating scale, this year’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at the Colonial Country Club is in the three-alarm range with a field that includes the current holders of all four major championships and five of the top eight golfers in the World Golf Rankings. Both categories are topped by everybody’s local favorite, Phil Mickelson.

The tournament got off to its annual fast start Thursday – with seven-under-par 63s posted by Jeff Overton and Jason Bohn a half-hour before Mickelson had even teed off. And this year the festivities will extend beyond the confines of Colonial when two of Fort Worth’s tallest buildings – the Chesapeake Energy and Cash America buildings – will be bathed in pink light to kick off the tournament’s Pink Out for breast cancer research.

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Continuing a tradition begun last year to show support for Amy Mickelson, whose diagnosis of breast cancer had been diagnosed one week earlier, players, fans, sponsors and wives will once again wear pink in support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and breast cancer awareness.

Regional rivalries being what they are in the deep south, the resurgence of the Colonial has given the folks in Fort Worth an opportunity to chide their more cosmopolitan neighbors in Dallas, the city some 20 miles to the east, by pointing out that there were none of the top 16 players in the world at last week’s tour event there.

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Adding to the celebratory atmosphere in Fort Worth was news that Crowne Plaza had signed up for another year as the tournament’s title sponsor, ending speculation that it would depart after this, its fourth, year. In an interview with Tthe Fort-Worth Star Telegram, the Crowne Plaza executive Gina LaBarre told the newspaper the company had agreed to terms for 2011 and that discussions were ongoing for additional years.

“We absolutely love being here,” LaBarre said. “We love the city of Fort Worth. We love the people. We obviously love the people at Colonial. This really brings it home.”

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To celebrate his first PGA Tour victory last Sunday, Jason Day, wife Ellie and friends gathered for a low-key dinner at a chain restaurant in downtown Fort Worth.

It makes one wonder what the Fort Worth resident might do if he pulls off the incredibly rare Dallas-Fort Worth double-dip. To win the tournament named for Byron Nelson and then capture the tournament synonymous with Ben Hogan in the span of eight days would certainly call for a culinary upgrade.

After all, it’s been 64 years since the legendary Hogan became the last to win the two events in the same year.

Blake Adams, conversely, said he spent last Sunday night staring at the ceiling until the wee hours, re-playing in his mind the double-bogey on the 72nd hole that derailed his chance at his first career win and evaporated dreams of an elusive North Texas two-step.

As Day toasted a victory that provided a two-year tour exemption, a spot in next year’s Master’s and a $1.17 million payday, Adams stewed. The 34-year-old rookie from Bartlesville, Okla., who before this year had never competed in a PGA Tour event, was eager to get on with the week and onto a Colonial course that promised to play hard and fast.

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“Sunday was a pretty tough night,” Adams said. “I’m always pretty hard on myself and I definitely beat myself up pretty good. But I learned from it and woke up Monday and obviously last week is last week, so I just used it as motivation.”

Both golfers charged into Thursday’s hot and muggy first-round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. Day, a 22-year-old native of Brisbane, Australia, who possesses a keen sense of the area’s golf genes since moving here and making Colonial Country Club his home base, got off to a fast start with three birdies on his first five holes.

He recovered from back-to-back bogeys early on his back nine and then closed the day with consecutive birdie putts to finish with a 4-under-par 66, tied for 14th and well within striking distance of the three co-leaders — one of which is scruffy-faced Adams.

Adams sizzled with five birdies on his front nine. He had just one bogey for the round and finished with a birdie on the 18th for a 7-under 63. Playing in the last group to finish on a day that heated up to 94 degrees, Adams’ last putt tied him with Jeff Overton and Jason Bohn. Adams will be first to tee off in Friday’s second round.

“I think we both know it’s another week, it’s a different way of thinking,” Day said. “You’ve got to get back into it and it’s a new job and you got to get back to the job at hand. Last week was great. I won and I was very thankful and happy that I won, but this week is a different week and I’ve got to get back out there and get the job done.”

For a shot to wear the plaid jacket of a Colonial winner, Day and Adams will have to outplay a far more rugged field than last week. Four of the world’s top six golfers — and 17 of the top 20 players in terms of Ryder Cup points — are here, including fan favorite Phil Mickelson, who got off to a rocky, 1-over 71 in his quest for a second Colonial victory in three years. This one would push him past Tiger Woods atop the World Golf Ranking.

With more sunny and hot weather in the forecast, the course is expected to stay fast, which should provide low scores and a crowded scoreboard.

“You know, I’d love to come through with a win here. I reckon it would be just great, me being just a local guy in Fort Worth and having a lot of friends and family here, it will just top it off,” Day said. “Obviously to play well here; you can just see Mr. Hogan out there when you walk through the gate.”

Day originally moved to Orlando, Fla., but after he hurt his back during his first year on the tour, the agent for Fort Worth golfer Rory Sabbatini referred Day to a physical therapy program at Back9Fitness, a facility based at the Jim McLean Golf Center in east Fort Worth. Day and his wife live in a neighborhood virtually around the corner.

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He became a member at Colonial and said he’s played the course at least 50 times. That familiarity helped his resolve when he bogeyed holes 3 and 4 (in reality holes 12 and 13 because he started his round on the back nine) and fell well back in the pack at 2-under. Day finished fourth here last year.

“I just tried to keep plodding along and try to stick to my game plan,” Day said. “I knew I could squeeze a couple of birdies out of the last few holes. I’m a member here and I’ve played here a bunch of times.”

Adams will have to rely on his own resolve as the tournament wears on. He’d never played Colonial.

“It was obviously a good day,” Adams said. “This is a special place, a lot of history here. I’m very blessed to be here.”

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