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Show Jack Nicklaus Visiting Again lakes and the sand." When asked how closely he was involved in the design, he replied: "I do the design. It's my course and anything I put my name on I'll do." Allowing thai it's tough for people to recognize him on the ski hill with goggles and hat, he said those who recognized him had been friendly. "The people have been very, very nice up here," he observed. If everything goes according to plan, the Nicklaus course may be ready for play by the fall of 1980, according to Vic Ayers, partner in the Park Meadows Corporation project. Ayers told the Record that the $3-to-$4 million course is now planned for about 182 acres, about 40 more than originally announced this spring. Like Nicklaus, he said, some of the holes would be difficult, but not prohibitively so for the weekend duffer. "It can be hard on the long tee's, but it's basically designed as a resort course that you can have fun with." Ayers went on to note exact membership requirements have not yet been decided, "We haven't formulated final plans on membership sales, but people who are buying out there (Park Meadows) should have first rights." Golf pro Jack Nicklaus is in Park City this week mixing vacation and business as he reviews plans for the golf course he is designing in the Park Meadows area. "I wanted to see the property again," the famous golfer told the Record Tuesday night, noting he was also skiing, snowmobiling and doing an American Express commercial while here with his wife and five children. Nicklaus said the design of the 18-hole. country club course was nearly completed, and he said, since the course would be for recreational use, it was not being constructed as a difficult course intended for championship champion-ship play. "When you design a golf course you do it for what it will be used for. This will be used as a resort type golf course." He said one of the criteria was to make the best use of the surrounding terrain "from a living standpoint in a single-family single-family area." And he noted that, "since the property is reasonably flat, we're going to have to create the |