Tiger Woods' design firm to craft 9-hole course in Augusta - ESPN

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods' legacy in Augusta, Georgia, will include more than the five green jackets he won at the Masters in his career.

Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley announced Monday that Woods and his TGR Design firm are designing a new nine-hole short course at the Patch, the former Augusta Municipal Golf Course, which is where many of the caddies who worked the Masters learned to play golf.

Additionally, Woods' TGR Foundation will open its fourth TGR Learning Lab in Augusta, which will provide access to science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education and other opportunities for students in Richmond County. Augusta National will provide funding for construction and ongoing operations of the learning lab.

«We recognize the importance of deepening Tiger's legacy in Augusta and with the Masters, and this we felt was an enduring way that we could be forever connected with Tiger and all he's done at the Masters and now all that he's going to be doing in this community,» Ridley said in a news conference Monday announcing the partnership.

Ridley said he was playing golf with Woods at Augusta National before the 2024 Masters when he told him about the club's plan to renovate the Patch.

«It was clear when I shared the concept that it sort of piqued his interest, and that was sort of the beginning of a conversation, a dialogue that took place between our organizations, and after that a few meetings took place, and the idea just sort of grew from what we were doing to how Tiger and TGR could be involved,» Ridley said. «He then sort of moved into discussing the big idea of the TGR Learning Lab, which to me is just very exciting.»

Woods, who last won the Masters in 2019, announced on May 11