"Cliffs Communities Halts Most Spending, Including for Tiger Woods Golf Course"

Larry Gavrich of Golf Community Reviews (thanks reader Stone) posts a report suggesting that "Gary Player gets to finish his golf course on schedule; Tiger Woods doesn’t." Hardly a shocker in this economy.

According to a letter sent to ClubCo members earlier this month, parts of which a Cliffs member has shared with Golf Community Reviews, spending has been deferred for most amenities other than the almost finished clubhouse and Gary Player golf course at Mountain Park.  The stoppage includes the golf course, maintenance facility and clubhouse at High Carolina, site of the Tiger Woods golf course, as well as a wellness center, spa and restaurant at The Cliffs at Keowee Springs.  Some renovations and expansion of amenities at the other Cliffs communities have also been halted, but according to the Cliffs member who shared the contents of the letter with us, “in the grand scheme of things, nothing major.”

The Mountain Park course and clubhouse are set to open in the fall of 2011.  Player moved his U.S. golf design operations to The Cliffs and purchased a large home there.  The Tiger Woods course is a couple of years from completion and, let’s face it, does not have the same cachet it had before a certain fateful Thanksgiving night 13 months ago.

Not too late for Tiger to take my advice for rebooting the design career!