“One walk here, Tiger put down 22,000 steps [on his pedometer]"

Tom Cunneff fills us in on Tiger's press conference to unveil The Cliffs' design Included is a full color course rendering with a disclaimer I've never seen before (but probably wise): "Artist rendering subject to change."

Naturally, I will be getting some mileage (pun fully intended) out of this: 

Several site visits also helped Woods with his rehabilitation from the knee surgery he underwent days after winning the U.S. Open in June. He and Anthony, a noted outdoorsman, went on long strolls around the property.

“One walk here, Tiger put down 22,000 steps [on his pedometer],” said Anthony. “And to show you his enthusiasm, he just had his operation on his knee, and we've got this big group of boulders out here, and so Tiger's climbing up on these boulders, and jumping from one to the other. I'm thinking the whole time, he's going to fall off, and I see the headlines: 'Tiger re-injures knee on a High Carolina rock pile.'”

The bigger headline, were it true, would have been: "Tiger Charges By The Step!" But I guess he was humoring boss Jim Anthony, who gives pedometers out like they're business cards.

Comments

[Brad Ford]

Looking at the routing plan, I didn't see anything bad. I think he could have done better with the routing around 4,5,6. That creek running through the property would have been a nice asset to use.

In terms fo value, I beleive it is going to become a giant white elephant course unless they open it up to public play. With investments down for everyone and a severe recession in the works, a new "high end" private course in the middle of nowhere doesn't seem likely to survive long. Just look what happened at the Yellowstone club.

[Smolmania]

I'm no archi Brad, but could that routing be more a function of housing location? Seems as if he moved the green site on #4 south, close to the stream, maybe a hard dogleg right, your desire to utilize the stream could be reached. But it sure looks to me as if the stream's very much in play on all three of those holes. . .

[Dove]

Tiger really is chasing Jack. Early on Jack designed grees to accept high fades...on this course, 13 holes (and all of the first 5) favor draws. Hopefully there's some wind, contour or some other reason why....

[Harrison]

They sold between 42 and 50 lots the first weekend, so I hear.