Tiger Woods visits Mike Trout for sneak peek of their New Jersey course

Though accidents have stored him out of PGA Tour occasions, Tiger Woods remains to be a number one man within the professional sport, as evidenced by his current appointment as participant director of the PGA Tour Policy Board. He’s additionally a protagonist within the higher world of golf, because of his golf course design enterprise, TGR Design.

This week, Tiger Woods was noticed whereas doing service to the latter pursuit, and never down in Jupiter, Fla., the place we often look forward to finding him, however as an alternative up North within the nice state of New Jersey.

While New Jersey tends to get quite a bit of grief from residents of different states, it’s a golf mecca, and occurs to function the undisputed prime golf course on the planet: Pine Valley.

Woods was in New Jersey to work on his personal contribution to the Jersey golf course panorama: Trout National — The Reserve, designed by his TGR agency.

If that course title appears to be like acquainted, that’s as a result of it belongs to an athlete close to the highest of his personal sport, Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout. Trout grew up in Vineland, N.J. An avid golfer, Trout is on a mission to create his personal non-public nation membership in his hometown, and he tapped Woods to construct the course.

The course challenge was first reported in March by Sports Illustrated. At the time, Trout stated, “It’s pretty incredible having a chance to own your own golf course. Getting Tiger to design it is crazy. I you had told me before that this would happen one day, I would have said you are crazy. It’s more than I ever thought possible.”

But few additional particulars in regards to the course had been revealed within the preliminary announcement. That all modified this week.

First, Trout posted a course teaser video on social media, that includes Tiger clad in his traditional Nike golf gear arriving on the web site of Trout National and greeting the course’s namesake, earlier than Trout and Tiger experience round in a cart surveying the structure that’s properly beneath building.

Then on Saturday, Trout posted a series of photos on Instagram of Tiger greeting Trout’s household at Trout National through the journey to see the course up shut.

“It’s happening! A dream come true for my family and I to work with @tigerwoods to bring Trout National – The Reserve to our hometown,” Trout wrote within the put up.

Trout National — The Reserve is predicted to open for play in 2025.

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