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- BUSINESS, Page 66Business NotesINVESTMENTSMaking a Hole in One
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- 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.
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- 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.
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