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BUSINESS, Page 66Business NotesINVESTMENTSMaking a Hole in One
In golf-mad Japan, the biggest swinger of all may be
industrialist Minoru Isutani, whose Cosmo World Corp. controls
more than 10 Japanese courses and is rapidly developing sites
in the U.S. and Europe. Last week Isutani scored the investment
equivalent of a hole in one when he agreed to pay an estimated
$900 million for the Pebble Beach Co., which operates four golf
courses on California's Monterey Peninsula that rank among the
world's most scenic. The deal makes Pebble Beach the jewel of
Isutani's international golf empire, which includes courses
under development in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii and a
new golf resort in Salzburg, Austria.
Even as Isutani expands his holdings abroad, he has become
entangled in controversy at home. In one widely reported
conflict, angry golfers have accused him of grossly overselling
memberships in his Japanese courses and thereby making weekend
reservations frustratingly hard to get.