Liberty National Developer On Whether He'd Put $250 Million+ Into A Golf Course If He Had To Do It All Over Again: "No"

Thanks to reader John for John Paul Newport's look at Paul Fireman's Liberty National development hosting this week's Barclays. And we can rule out Fireman meeting the definition of insanity even though he brought the original architects back to the scene of the crime: he would not do this again.

Would he do it again, given the wild cost and time overruns? "No," he said without hesitation. "But that's true of a lot of people about a lot of things."

There is some great news delivered in the story: we won't have to hear about the amazing views from Liberty National again until at least 2016!

The PGA Tour advised Liberty that if it wanted to continue as one of the four rotating sites for the Barclays beyond 2013, when its contract ends, it needed to make some changes. The other courses in the rotation are Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., where the Barclays returns in 2014; Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J. (2015); and Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. (2016).