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Just a few more quotes to add to the changes that will get tested starting tomorrow at TPC Boston and the Deutsche Bank Championship.

“It’s the mental aspect — we’re trying to make them think,” he said. “That’s the whole idea. You want to be able to test the players and make them come up with [...]

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The news is out - Tiger Woods is going to design his first US course. It’s going to be in North Carolina at the Cliffs, a high end retirement community located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Now, in this previous article, I highlighted Tiger’s design philosophy. It will be interesting how he uses the extreme [...]

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Wednesday’s story on the Tiger Woods Dubai included Tiger’s description of three holes at the golf course Tiger Woods Design is designing in Dubai called the Tiger Woods Dubai. (Repetition seems to be a theme here…)
Here are the three holes, and a link to Tiger’s website discussing the design.

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This story is an amusing tale of OnMilwaukee.com’s Steve Czaban’s encounter with Tiger Woods on the interstate. A little tease to get you interested.
What would happen if I accidentally rear-ended him? Would Stevie Williams pop out of the back like “The Trunk Monkey” and bury a sand wedge square in the middle of my [...]

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Tiger Woods must have the most efficient usage of time of any human being. He’s a new father, just hosted his own tournament and is preparing for the season’s final two majors. Well, that’s not all - Geoff Shackelford finds in the Washington Post that Tiger is looking at either building his own course in [...]

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I thought the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie approached the biggest botched golf course setup in major championship I had ever saw. (That was until Shinnecock in 2004…) Tiger Woods commented on that tournament in the lead up to this year’s Open Championship, which returns to Carnoustie.
“It was hard. It was really hard. I’ve never [...]

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In Doug Ferguson’s recent article, he mentions in passing that Tiger Woods Design has hired Beau Welling to be its lead designer. Welling is a former Tom Fazio design associate.
Woods said Bryon Bell, whom he hired as president of Tiger Woods Design, found Welling after looking at the philosophies of various design companies.
“Beau fit what [...]

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That’s kind of like saying Tiger Woods will appoint Tiger Woods to manage Tiger Wood’s first design. Anyway, we’ve got some good corporate speak here.
Abdulla Al Gurg, Project Director of The Tiger Woods Dubai said: ‘While partnering with IMG creates numerous synergies, we selected IMG because we believe that their highly tailored and ’boutique’ management [...]

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More from Tiger’s practice round at the host course for the 2007 US Open.
“It’s a great test, but has a lot of blind tee and second shots,” world number one Woods said in his monthly newsletter Tuesday. “Overall, I’d say it’s a lot harder than Augusta National.
“It’s an old-style course and I kept trying to [...]

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