Tiger Woods, the golfing champion, has now taken to designing golf courses, reports The Epoch Times.
It seems that Woods has been inspired by former golf champions like Davis Love III, Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Gray Player, Ben Crenshaw and others who have also designed courses. The 38-year-old golfer will unveil his maiden world-class golf course design in the greater Cabo San Lucas area of Mexico some time later this year, making it the second golf course in the prominent Diamante property.
The golfer's company, Tiger Woods Design, was launched in 2006.
In a press release issued last October, Woods said: "Our goal at Tiger Woods Design is to find locations to design unique and memorable golf courses. Diamante definitely meets that objective."
Scheduled to open in fall, the course, known as El Cardonal, is a par-71, 7,401-yard layout. The green fee is expected to be $275, although access will only be provided to property owners and people staying at the forthcoming hotel.
El Cardonal will not have holes immediately near the Pacific, although the views promise to be spectacular.
For Woods, the transition from golfer to designer has not been without its hitches.
Woods' debut golf course project, called Al Ruwaya (Serenity), was to take shape in Dubai, but was eventually scrapped in 2009. Tiger reportedly received $50 million for his efforts toward the project.
Meanwhile, Woods' first U.S. project was planned for The Cliffs in North Carolina. However, this project was suspended when the promoting company went bankrupt.
Determined, the master golfer decided to set up his first golf course in a spectacular oceanfront property at Punta Brava in Mexico, about 70 miles from the southern border of California. Although this project was announced after Woods won the 2008 U.S. Open, it also failed to take off as Lehman Brothers went bankrupt.
