Rose-Poulter Phone-In Redesign Of Phoned-In Duval Design!

What a world: David Duval gets some money to be part of one of the Mission Hills courses in China built by Brian Curley, and now that the course has been rebuilt and Duval is not a top player, hipper, younger player-architects are called in to...phone it in.

From Doug Ferguson's AP notes column:

Mission Hills China announced two weeks ago that U.S. Open champion Justin Rose and Ian Poulter of Ryder Cup fame will stage an exhibition match Oct. 28 to celebrate the opening of the redesigned "Rose-Poulter" course.

Brian Curley is the architect of the redesign. The course had been "designed" by Duval and was known as the "Duval" course.

Rose said in the press release, "We've had a number of discussions with Brian Curley and I look forward to coming to Mission Hills in October and seeing the end result."

Glad to see we're exporting the best of golf to China!