Tiger Woods' next golf course project has been announced

With this year making ten year anniversary of Tiger Woods' debut in golf course design, his reputation as an architect of great courses remains rock-solid.

TGR design now boasts almost a dozen individual projects dotted around North and Central America, many of which have won awards since opening. Now, a decade on from the opening tee shot being fired at Bluejack National (a course that still stands arguably as Woods' magnum opus), the next chapter in Woods' story as a designer is here.

The latest venture for TGR will come in the form of a new Championship course to be built at the Tributer Resort in central Virginia. About 55 miles north of Richmond and 85 miles southwest of Washington D.C, Tributer's resident Cutalong Golf Club, a private course, has been hailed as a modern classic since its opening in 2023.

TGR' new Championship course, it's believed, will provide a Championship experience that's of a different flavour to Cutalong, which was modelled after the National Golf Links of America and takes inspiration from the golden age golf designers of the UK.

“A balanced mix of uphill and downhill holes, shifting perspectives, and natural landforms will ensure no two holes feel alike, creating a course that feels organic in its movement and varied in its demands,” said TGR Design President Bryon Bell. 

The TGR course will make more varied use of the land's topography, winding its way along hilly land formerly used by miners to dig for copper and gold.

Woods has earned a reputation as a designer of fast, fun and bouncy courses over his decade in design, presenting players with wide landing areas and Sandbelt-style bunkering. 

Encouraging low, rolling approach shots, and incentivising creativity, he prefers his greens fast, long and undulating, with generous but tight runoff areas making for a firm, fun and fair experience.

The announcement comes at a busy time for the design arm of Woods' TGR Ventures group. The company most recently put the finishing touches on a par 3 course at The Patch, a municipal course neighbouring (and run by) Augusta National, along with Missouri's Payne Valley: Woods' first full-length public access course.

TGR also team has more than half a dozen design projects on the go at the time of writing, having been brought on to oversee the design at Trout National: a much-anticipated new country club founded by Baseball star Mike Trout. TGR will also develop new courses at Marcella Club in Utah, Vinhomes Green Paradise Can Gio in Vietnam, The Bahamas' Jack's Bay, and is set to redesign of The Hay short course at Pebble Beach.