Don't Pencil Boston 2024 Onto Your Bucket List Just Yet
/Katharine Seelye and Jere Longman file a lengthy New York Times piece
Read MoreIn golf construction art and utility meet; both are absolutely vital; one is utterly ruined without the other. GEORGE THOMAS
It’s back!
Twenty years later Tatra Press has kindly allowed me to bring back Grounds For Golf now that golf architecture is of more interest to the masses. A new Introduction looks at what’s driven the interest growth and two new chapters I had a blast adding (plus a few edits to keep things up-to-date).
The Amazon purchase page for the book arriving June 15, 2026.
Rosie: Tiger Improving, Has The Edge Back
/And the Masters? Golf World's Tim Rosaforte says yes
Read MoreJimmy Walker: Five PGA Tour Wins In 18 Months
/Since five wins was an average season for Tiger, the number isn't overwhelming.
Read MorePunters Note: Masters Field Nears 100 Before WD's
/Handicappers, punters and other people of vibrancy will want to note Nick Menta's
Read MoreIs The Modern Ball Hurting Righthanders At Augusta National?
/An intriguing theory about the run of southpaws winning at Augusta National
Read MoreEven An 11-Year-Old Can Explain Why We Need A Ball Rollback
/Lucy Li was a Drive, Chip and Putt winner last year at Augusta National
Read MoreState Of The Game 54: Michael Bamberger
/Longtime Sports Illustrated writer and author Michael Bamberger joins us to talk about a variety of issues
Read MoreTiger Getting $16.5 Million For Two China Design Projects?
/That's what Josh Sens at golf.com says.
The funniest part? The developer, Pacific Links International, confirms and even produces a boilerplate quote from Woods. And Tiger's spokesman Glenn Greenspan? No comment.
Asked about the Beijing project, Tiger spokesman Glenn Greenspan said that Woods had nothing to announce at the moment.
But in a statement provided to Golf.com by Pacific Links, Woods is quoted as 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.”
Pacific Links executives did not respond to questions about the financial terms of the deal.
It's still illegal to build a "golf course" in China where construction has been in full stop mode according to Dan Washburn (and others who, so maybe Team Tiger is just trying to avoid being seen as breaking the law?
Update on 2015-03-31 03:31 by Geoff
**John Strege talks to Golf Digest China's David Lee to try to understand what Tiger will design or redesign with a moratorium on course construction in China.
As for the closing of courses, the Tian’an Holiday Golf Club “wasn’t on the list of courses in trouble,” Lee said. The 66 courses closed were built after the 2004 ban that, Reuters reported, was “imposed to protect China's shrinking land and water resources in a country home to a fifth of the world's population but which has just 7 percent of its water.”
“It’s all very, very confusing,” Lee said.
We talked about the latest Tiger design news on Morning Drive.
Will TaylorMade Abandon Its Saner Product Launch Cycle Plans?
/With the change in CEO's and suggestions of parent company Adidas planning
Read More9th Circuit Sides With MacKenzie's Sharp Park
/Another nice win for the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance and their counsel
Read MoreVideo: Matty's At It Again, The 1-Putt 4-Putt
/Not only does he pull off another joyous shot at the Golf & Ski Warehouse
Read MoreAaron Baddeley's Birdie For The Ages
/I mistakenly let the Buzzfeed-style headlines scared me off from reading about Aaron Baddeley's
Read MoreVideo: Phil Mickelson's 8-Iron Snaps At Impact
/Wild moment from the Valero Texas Open today as Mickelson's 8-iron broke
Read MorePro Emeritus Tom Watson No Longer Pro Emeritus
/In the world of bequeathing emeritus status, The Greenbrier's second pro
Read MoreTaylorMade Golf Appoints (Another) New CEO
/Ben Sharpe is out after almost a year at the helm.
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