Tiger Woods’ El Cardonal at Diamante is a ‘generous’ course | Golf Today | Golf Channel [Video]

0:00 | Wide Technology Championship is being

0:02 | played for the first time at the Tiger

0:03 | Woods designed L cardal course which is

0:06 | at the Damonte Resort in Cabo s Lucas

0:08 | the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula

0:10 | the course opened 9 years ago it tips

0:12 | out at

0:14 | 7,452 yards par 72 so everybody wants to

0:18 | know what’s Tiger’s design philosophy

0:21 | this course is going to remind people of

0:23 | the old style California courses we will

0:25 | use the existing ayal that Traverse the

0:28 | site and well-placed bunkers to create

0:30 | definite strategic choices and Carries

0:33 | off the teas makes me nervous already I

0:36 | set up the golf strategy to make golfers

0:37 | think and make choices angles of

0:40 | approach are going to be very important

0:41 | and will dictate the type of shots you

0:43 | should consider I love this kind of golf

0:47 | says Tiger Woods and it’s interesting

0:50 | you know we’ve seen players go from

0:51 | players you know Ben khaw Jack Nicholas

0:54 | Arnold Palmer who have gone on to the

0:56 | design game what do you think of this

0:58 | chapter that Tiger Woods is embarking on

1:00 | because he was had some projects before

1:01 | that were stalled by the global pandemic

1:04 | and Global financial crisis as well yeah

1:05 | you can go back quite a while in there

1:06 | where tiger course has planned in in

1:08 | various corners of the world all the way

1:10 | out in Dubai even that never actually

1:12 | quite got off the ground this was the

1:14 | first course tiger ever designed I I

1:16 | first went around this property when

1:18 | there were just white staks out in the

1:20 | the desert on a royos uh which I then

1:23 | I’m quite familiar with on golf courses

1:25 | as you know Damon and that was before

1:27 | the course had even been cleared and

1:29 | shaped and it was a very non-descript

1:31 | piece of property and then to go back a

1:33 | couple of years later and see the

1:34 | finished product it’s always fun to see

1:36 | the journey that of course takes from

1:38 | just being dirt and cacti into a golf

1:41 | course and it’s very much in the model

1:43 | of of Resort course golf the the

1:45 | fairways are pretty generous by Resort

1:48 | standards and here’s tiger during the

1:51 | development of the golf course there the

1:52 | guy on the right Ken joui is the owner

1:54 | of the property looks it pretty much

1:57 | flows downhill towards the Pacific Ocean

1:59 | with without quite getting there there

2:01 | are stretches of it where it can be sort

2:03 | of directionally a little bit repetitive

2:05 | but there are some interesting holes out

2:07 | there for sure and particularly around

2:09 | the green complexes there’s a lot of

2:10 | kind of runoff chipping areas as well I

2:13 | would expect pretty low scores this week

2:15 | there aren’t a lot of disasters waiting

2:17 | out there unless like us you end up down

2:20 | one of those ayos in between the rocks

2:21 | in which case you’re pretty much

2:23 | finished but it is a it’s a generous

2:26 | golf course and when you’re taking the

2:27 | best players in the world and putting

2:28 | them out there you’re going to have to

2:30 | really Sprint to keep Pace this week I

2:32 | think I wonder what we’ll learn about

2:34 | Tiger’s design philosophy I remember

2:35 | speaking to not beay about how tiger

2:38 | thinks on a golf course and how

2:39 | different it is from even Tigers peers

2:42 | he sees shots that other players other

2:45 | great players just don’t see that they

2:47 | don’t even fathom particular angles or

2:51 | flights of shot or different ways to

2:53 | approach different holes so I wonder if

2:56 | any of that you know incredible mind

2:58 | that tiger has displayed in his

3:00 | incredible career will be visible in his

3:03 | design work will we be able to see Ah

3:05 | that’s that’s definitely a tiger shot I

3:07 | couldn’t even have contemplated this

3:09 | type of design well he he has likened

3:11 | his design philosophy in the past to

3:13 | those great old Southern California

3:14 | courses the ravier Beller you’re not

3:17 | going to see a lot of that at Damon

3:19 | other than the fact that there are

3:20 | little canyons and a royos that kind of

3:23 | dictate uh strategy on a lot of the

3:25 | holes but there are certainly enough

3:26 | places where he gives you the

3:28 | opportunity to bite off just enough to

3:30 | choke on and ultimately that’s to me the

3:33 | fundamental of good design in on any

3:35 | golf course is what are the options is

3:37 | there uh is there the option for the

3:39 | safe play that then becomes

3:40 | exponentially tougher as you work your

3:42 | way around the hole or is there the hero

3:44 | shot out there where you can execute it

3:46 | or choke on it and there’s certainly hes

3:48 | like that at Damonte it it will not be

3:52 | considered it will not be likened to any

3:54 | of those Southern California courses

3:55 | simply because the property doesn’t

3:56 | allow itself to be there but I’m I’m

3:59 | sure sure he’s pretty proud of it it is

4:01 | the first course that he’s ever had his

4:02 | name on he’s currently building a second

4:04 | ful length course at the same property

4:06 | and he also built the Oasis course there

4:08 | which is a little short uh part three

4:10 | course that’s on the property so he

4:12 | definitely has a pretty large footprint

4:13 | where the tour is playing this week I do

4:15 | wonder what his Des design philosophy

4:16 | will be 10 20 years from now when he has

4:19 | a portfolio perhaps we look at Ben

4:21 | crenchaw one of the great minimalists in

4:23 | my mind doesn’t move a lot of Earth you

4:25 | know lets the land do what it was meant

4:28 | to do some architects can be a little

4:30 | bit heavy-handed a little bit more

4:32 | contrived I wonder if tiger will be more

4:34 | of the you know putting his imprint on

4:36 | the golf course or being more of a

4:37 | minimalist and letting the golf course

4:39 | land kind of dictate how the holes come

4:41 | to pass there there’s a distinct

4:44 | correlation between the amount of work

4:45 | tour players have done as designers and

4:48 | the quality of the work crenchaw has

4:50 | never done that much and I would argue

4:52 | is the best Tour player turn designer in

4:56 | in certainly that we’ve seen in recent

4:58 | memory wise COV as a lot of Great

5:00 | Courses as well but Jack Arie Gary

5:03 | Player it was a mass Market approach it

5:05 | was a very successful business for those

5:08 | guys and certainly during the pre crash

5:12 | era they were building a lot of golf

5:14 | courses and frankly not a lot of good

5:16 | ones in that mix as well they certainly

5:18 | have their share of courses that people

5:21 | can point to and say that is the best of

5:22 | their work yes but when you are

5:24 | stretched thin in in boom times then the

5:27 | work certainly takes on a a

5:30 | and tiger certainly not in that point at

5:32 | this stage I’m not sure any architect

5:33 | can get to that point in the current

5:34 | market that we live in anymore but it’s

5:37 | certainly be interesting to see if tiger

5:39 | starts to get property that is really

5:41 | good for golf and that that’s really the

5:44 | trick for these guys are there enough

5:46 | good pieces of land out there you can

5:48 | put a great golf course on it because

5:49 | they’re all good enough to put a good

5:51 | golf course if they have enough

5:52 | bulldozers on on lousy land but how can

5:54 | they work with really good quality land

5:57 | and that’s few and far between those

5:59 | assignments that old restaurant saying

6:01 | location location

6:07 | location

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