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Haig Point Club
Haig Point is a U.S. private community on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina. Commonly referred to just as ''Haig Point'', it is legally known as ''The Haig Point Club and Community Association, Inc.'' Founded in 1986 by International Paper, it has been owned by its members since 2001, and member-operated since 2009. Haig Point was ranked as one of the top 100 private golf course communities in the country by '' Links'' in the mid-2000s. Haig Point's Rees Jones Signature Course, designed by Rees Jones in 1986 and renovated by the "Open Doctor" in 2007, has been ranked in '' Golf Digest''s "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses" and in ''Golf Magazine''s "Top 100 Courses in the World". History Pre-settlement (8,000 BC–1711 AD) Native American Indians occupied Daufuskie Island for thousands of years. Many artifacts have been found at Haig Point dating back to this time. Tabby ruins still exist on the property, dating back to the Colonial period, and have been carefully prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |