A Good Friday For Tiger To Make A Masters Decision

It's one of those stars-aligning types of Friday news dumps, with Good Friday meaning many are not in front of computers or scanning Twitter. And a perfect time for Tiger Woods to issue his long-awaited 2015 Masters decision.

Waiting until the weekend to announce his intentions means overshadowing Sunday's Drive, Chip and Putt or the two significant professional events being played in Houston and Rancho Mirage.

The decision sounds like a fairly uncomplicated one if the wedge theatrics are still happening. And as Jim McCabe reports for Golfweek.com, they did during Tiger's Tuesday practice round at Augusta National.

Playing with two members, Woods did make five birdies, but there had to be plenty of lowlights because the source said Woods shot 2-over 74 and that he did hit several indifferent chips, including one that went through the green and into a bunker.

Update on 2015-04-03 15:54 by Geoff

**He's hitting balls Friday at the professional practice area, reports G.C. Digital.

Tiger Getting $16.5 Million For Two China Design Projects?

That's what Josh Sens at golf.com says.

The funniest part? The developer, Pacific Links International, confirms and even produces a boilerplate quote from Woods. And Tiger's spokesman Glenn Greenspan? No comment.

Asked about the Beijing project, Tiger spokesman Glenn Greenspan said that Woods had nothing to announce at the moment.

But in a statement provided to Golf.com by Pacific Links, Woods is quoted as saying, “We strongly believe this course will stand the test of time and be one of the most prestigious courses in China, and even Asia.”

Pacific Links executives did not respond to questions about the financial terms of the deal.

It's still illegal to build a "golf course" in China where construction has been in full stop mode according to Dan Washburn (and others who, so maybe Team Tiger is just trying to avoid being seen as breaking the law?

Update on 2015-03-31 03:31 by Geoff

**John Strege talks to Golf Digest China's David Lee to try to understand what Tiger will design or redesign with a moratorium on course construction in China.

As for the closing of courses, the Tian’an Holiday Golf Club “wasn’t on the list of courses in trouble,” Lee said. The 66 courses closed were built after the 2004 ban that, Reuters reported, was “imposed to protect China's shrinking land and water resources in a country home to a fifth of the world's population but which has just 7 percent of its water.”

“It’s all very, very confusing,” Lee said.

We talked about the latest Tiger design news on Morning Drive.