Now the landscape is rolling bunkers, emerald green fairways and 3,000-square-foot villas big enough to house whole tribes of golfers.

Want to buy a midcentury modern glass house on a green fairway?

Golfers snapped his picture as he jumped into the golf cart, hugged his grandson and headed down the green fairway.

From our dining table there, we could look across a green clipped fairway to an unspoiled coastline.

Up, down, and over the central sandy ridge, down along the shore, the green fairways had been built to resemble breaking waves.

On the seventh hole, you drive downhill, descending to a perfectly green fairway that burrows through rock walls.

The ball soared through the air, and landed far away on a smooth green fairway.

"Golf is deceptive, because it seems like only plush clubhouses and green fairways," said Lowery.

The course, built in 1988, is gorgeous, with thousands of white mountain birches glistening against green fairways and the Alps as a backdrop.

The gulls were drifting slowly above the deep green fairway.