Tiger Woods Breaks New Ground In Redesign Of Course In China.

Tiger Woods time Major winning Tiger Woods is set to take his golf course redesign skills to the Beijing Tian’an Holiday Golf club in the Chinese capital.

This is according to a report on www.golf.com

It is understood the project is part of a two-course deal between Woods and the Canadian firm, valued at $16.5 million.

Beijing Tian’an Holiday is a 27-hole facility located on the outskirts of the Chinese capital and will be renamed Pacific Links National Golf Club. The facility will be part of a cluster of 12 courses in the great Beijing area that will be available to customers who purchase a specific Pacific Links membership, which will offer privileges to every course in the groups, including designs by Pete Dye, Greg Norman, Ernie Els and Fred Couples.

Tiger to redesign Beijing Tian’an Holiday Golf Club in China.

Tiger to redesign Beijing Tian’an Holiday Golf Club in China.

While Woods’ spokesman Glenn Greenspan declined comment to golf.com, Pacific Links attributed a statement to Woods saying, “We strongly believe this course will stand the test of time and be one of the most prestigious courses in China, and even Asia.”

Woods’ design business has found solid footing after starting almost a decade ago with an ambitious project in Dubai. That project, which was called Al Ruwaya, stalled as the global economic recession spread to the emirate in 2008. The project was permanently stalled with several holes built and grown in. Eventually, the project was canceled, as were similarly impacted projects in North Carolina and Mexico.

In December, Woods attended the first opening of one of his designs, El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

The media attending next week’s Shell Houston Open have been invited to inspect the Bluejack National a redesign project near Houston that is expected to open in the fall and will be Woods’ first U.S. course.

Woods has also been contracted to develop on the same land as Al Ruwaya for a Dubai project that will ultimately be run by the Trump Group and to be named Trump World Golf Club, Dubai.

However, this pair of Chinese projects may have an already uncertain future. The Chinese government has maintained a moratorium on golf course development since 2004, though some 400 courses have been built in that decade-plus span. The government has recently made a push to enforce its moratorium and is expected to introduce new regulations on land use this summer



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