There's a new, private resort planned for Scotland golf vacations, but only billionaires need apply.
The money required to become a member of a planned, two-course Scotland golf resort will be too much even for Tiger Woods, says Malcom James, its developer.
According to a recent article in Scotland’s Press & Journal newspaper, “[James] boasted that while Tiger Woods will be welcome to play at the championship courses as a guest, the world’s wealthiest sporting superstar won’t be rich enough to secure membership.” Read more →
"Privacy" is one of the things Tiger Woods prefers to taking golf vacations.
Despite playing more golf for work than any of us play for fun, some guys on the PGA Tour still like to take golf vacations during their downtime, but Tiger Woods isn’t one of them.
Here’s what he told reporters during the AT&T National, the PGA Tour event he hosted (and won) over the weekend: Read more →
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Yep, it’s official. Tiger Woods will design his first American golf course in the mountains of North Carolina.
Just two days after notching his 13th major tournament victory at the PGA Championship in Tulsa, Okla., Tiger Woods yesterday held a press conference at the headquarters of The Cliffs Communities in Traveler’s Rest, S.C., to announce that he’ll design the golf course at the company’s eighth master-planned community, The Cliffs at High Carolina near Asheville. Read more →
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On Tuesday of next week, Tiger Woods is expected to announce plans for his first golf course design in the United States.
At a news conference yesterday in conjunction with the PGA Championship, Woods said he would be at The Cliffs Communities corporate offices in Traveler’s Rest, S.C., following the major tournament.
There, it is believed he will reveal his plans to design a golf course to anchor the real estate company’s newest residential development, The Cliffs of High Carolina, near Asheville, N.C. Read more →
See Hank Haney training tomorrow
Don’t be surprised if you bump into Tiger Woods’ swing coach on your next Hilton Head golf vacation. Hank Haney, who has been helping Tiger groove his swing for the last three years, took on the job of director of instruction at the island’s International Junior Golf Academy last month.
The IJGA is similar to the famous IMG Academies, in that parents from around the world pay huge sums of money (as much as $47,000 per year at IJGA) for their kids to live, go to school and theoretically get their golf games in shape for the professional ranks. I say “theoretically,” because on my last Hilton Head golf vacation, an insider told me that the school is often just a way to keep the kids out of trouble before they’re eligible for their trust funds. But I digress… Read more →
Drink responsibly on a golf vacation by avoiding this unsavory combo.
How’s this for an example of overzealous marketing? To help sell hotel rooms during Fourth of July weekend — when Tiger Woods’ first-ever, co-sponsored PGA Tour event (the AT&T National) comes to Congressional Country Club — the Fairmont Washington D.C. has created an entirely new cocktail, a Tiger Woods martini.
It’s part of the Fairmont’s “Under Par on the Fourth” package, which, as far as I can tell, includes nothing more than a hotel room, a discount on an Enterprise rental car, and the cocktail for $229 per night plus tax. If you want there to be any golf in this golf vacation package, you’ll have to set it up yourself.
Back to the drink. It is, in my opinion, an abomination of mixology, a combination of vodka and, get this, SunnyD. Fairmont claims the processed orange drink is Tiger’s favorite beverage, despite evidence that he prefers water, cranberry juice and ginger ale and, at least as a kid, his favorite libation was cherry soda.
Wait, it gets worse. Read more →
Tiger's design will join Colin Montgomerie's (above) as another tour-player designed track in Dubai.
Tiger Woods has upped his involvement in golf course development from financier to course designer, announcing this week that his first design will take shape in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Details are scant for the scheduled 2009 opening, but the course will be a long one, nearly 8,000 yards, and will be complemented by a huge clubhouse, a golf school, more than 300 upscale villas and a small, luxury hotel. Read more →
