Look Out Jack And Annika: Shark And Ochoa Issue Press Release With Olympic Design In Sight!

I don't know about you, but they do skew a lot younger than Jack and Annika, the other previously announced Olympic design wannabes!

Lorena Ochoa (former No. 1 player in the world from 2007-2010) and Greg Norman (winner of 91 tournaments worldwide and the No. 1 player in the world for 331 weeks) announced a partnership to jointly design championship and resort golf courses worldwide. To start this historic partnership, the two golf superstars have contacted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in hopes of being selected to co-design the golf course that will host the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

I actually feel sorry for whoever had to field that call.

This golf course design partnership is born in mutual admiration of each other's accomplishments within the golfing world.

The mutual admiration society breaks out in sentence two! That could be a press release record.

Greg Norman has had tremendous success designing golf courses worldwide including numerous courses in Lorena's home country, Mexico. Norman designed the El Camaleón Golf Club which hosts the first and only PGA TOUR event in Mexico. El Camaleón opened to rave reviews from the tour players and is entering its fifth year of hosting the Mayakoba Golf Classic on February 23rd thru 27th.

This partnership oozes synergy. Greg knows all of the best private airports in Lorena's country. Game, set, match!

Lorena recently launched her own design company, and the Ochoa brand is very strong in Mexico and South America. Combining Lorena's appeal in Mexico and South America with Greg's 23 years of golf course design experience will present a unique offering to the golf course design client.

The four still left on the planet.

This partnership will showcase their vision for the next generation of golf course design, offering relaxing, scenic playable courses for both men, women and junior golfers. These two talented individuals, successful both as professional players and golf course architects, will offer men and women alike, regardless of age and ability, a golf course that will turn a normal round of golf into an "experience."

Oh? I can wait to see that. A long, long time from now.

Lorena Ochoa and Greg Norman each operate numerous businesses, charitable programs and diverse activities related to the game of golf and will continue to do so in an effort to grow the game of golf. This new collaboration on golf course design will extend worldwide and will be handled as a separate entity to that of their own respective brands and will be utilized only for those special projects that require the synergy of these two champions to produce an even greater golf course.

Glad we got that clarified. Was that copy and pasted from the actual contract?

Greg Norman: "Lorena has achieved an incredible amount of success in the golf world in a relatively short period of time and working with her will give me the opportunity to co-design courses with another professional golfer with different views or philosophies than my own. In particular, she will bring a ladies perspective to the playability element which is sure to improve the course in that regard. There are specific projects where doing a co-design with Lorena will better fit the client's needs and in these cases we both look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with the other. The fact that we're friends only makes the process that much more enjoyable."

Hey, they've actually met!