Ivo Sanader, the former Croatian prime minister, just got ten years for his many crimes. Ten years only, that is. As I am writing, the judge is still delivering his verdict. But crooked golf was not even mentioned among Sanader’s crimes. He got saved by the real estate bust. Had it come just a year later, many golf courses would have sprung all around Croatia, but mainly in Istria and Dalmatia. One of them would be in Motovun, too. And all the golf courses would be linked to fraudulent sale of land in the hands of the government made possible by physical or spatial planning tricks orchestrated from the very top of the government hierarchy. In short, neither he nor his many helpers at all levels of government will suffer any pain for the scam they have planned for years. Scot free, they can only laugh as the verdict is being delivered. Ten years only, once again.