Jack: "China...is shut down right now golf-wise."

Greg Stoda covers an array of topics with Jack Nicklaus who spoke at a charity event.

Two of interest in the architecture world:

On the weak global economy and its impact on golf ...

- "China, for example, is shut down right now golf-wise. We were over there about a month ago with a course two weeks from being finished that was shut down. They put a satellite up to monitor it to see that nobody was working."

Or maybe they just played the Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain and don't want you to get carried away again?

On the situation in the United States ...

- "I haven't been to a country in the last year where the outlook is as bad economically as it is here for us."

So we got that going for us. We're at the top of the bottom of the charts.