According to a report by Golf.com, the organization is poised to move its national headquarters from West Palm Beach, Fla., where it has been since 1965, to the new Panther Creek development in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas. Two 18-hole semi-public courses and a nine-hole short course are part of the plan. In a…
Updated Plans for Chicago’s South Side Course Still Raise Concerns
The new design for merging the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses, reflecting modifications made after initial community input, would add more pedestrian trails and relocate the public pavilion clubhouse. But it would still require closing a major street to vehicle traffic and eliminate parts of an existing nature and butterfly sanctuary. The project would be designed by Tiger Woods’ TGR Design, and a representative of the firm said he’s “never seen [Woods] so excited about a project,”
Conflicts Threaten Jackson Park/South Shore Project
At the second of three community meetings about the development of the $30 million Tiger Woods-designed golf course in the south side of Chicago, residents raised concerns about the emphasis on golf for the public park. A lack of coordination among the golf course designers and those developing the Obama Presidential Center is also raising…