Woods Considering Military Course Redo?
This sounds much more appealing than an annual visit to Congressional. From Leonard Shapiro in the Washington Post...
One source connected to the tournament said that representatives of Woods's foundation have looked at potential sites inside the Beltway that would allow Woods, a budding golf course architect, to build his own course or renovate an existing facility.The source said that Woods might even be interested in taking an existing military course, either at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland or Fort Belvoir in Virginia, and do the sort of makeover that transformed Bethpage Black on Long Island, a public course in general disrepair, before the 2002 U.S. Open. Architect Rees Jones, who also did a makeover at Congressional before the 1997 Open, handled the Bethpage project.
"Look, if there's land available inside the Beltway, please call me," McLaughlin said. "At this time, we're not contemplating building our own golf course designed by Tiger, but we certainly would not ever rule it out long-term if the right partnership could be put in place. We're open to any and all situations and we're keeping an open mind for all future sites."
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 05:59 AM
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In the DC area, I believe the best course on which to do this would be Fort Meade. They have oodles of land, and have a nice rolling terrain that is a bit better, I think, than either Andrews or Belvoir. The existing courses there are fine but could benefit from a re-do, where as Andrews has been pretty well maintained through the years, with a third 18 added within the last 10 years, I believe. At Fort Meade, you could easily create a fantastic, championship style course.
It's not technically inside the beltway, but for that matter either are Andrews and Belvoir.
Upon my election, I will appoint you Chief of Staff and go play golf while you run things. You can call me on the hot line should something require my attn. Geoff will be appointed High Minister of Golf. lol
Screw the golf, let's go for the Swedish babes. :)
As a longtime Bethpager, I'd say Badger Len overstates when he says Black was in "general disrepair." I'd say it was in pretty decent shape for a state-owned facility. (Or is that Po-TAY-to Po-TAH-to?)
And, yes, it would be a masterstroke for Tiger to do this, especially if he declares he's doing it for $1. What a way to pay back to his game, his country, and his father!
Geoff would probably do best as party national committee chair--spin doctor.
;-)
Now the really genius stroke would be to redo this public track and keep it public and affordable so that the same great mix of folks can play it . . .
course was completely re-done.
http://cgi.cnnsi.com/golfonline/2002/us_open/black_beauty/