We have been inundated with requests from sponsors and from other golf courses who are interested in being associated with next year's event.

The Ceres Principles have been advocated now for 10 years and at least half of the Fortune 500 companies have either received resolutions or been queried about it. Always the first reaction within these companies is for them to come and show you what they are already doing. When the issue is raised over and over again by these big funds, though, they start thinking about what they are going to say to stakeholders.

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

We feel we are on a tremendous role. When we created this coalition 10 years ago, the idea of investors and environmentalists coming together and working with business to help them take a more positive role in the environment was a very radical idea. Now it's much more widely accepted.

Attendance figures in golf are oftentimes nebulous. There are no turnstiles, but if we drew 10 to 15,000 per day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it would be terrific. The golf course will certainly hold more than that, but I don't like to paint the sky blue.

The council was not the least in favor of it. We just don't need another golf course. We've certainly got our share of golf courses and our share of golf course problems.