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Punta Brava Golf Club is a private golf club and course currently under development in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico on the Punta Banda Peninsula. It is framed by the Pacific Ocean and the Bay of Todos Santos on three sides. It is designed by Tiger Woods. The vision of the founder of the development project, Brian Tucker, quoted by CNN is "to shape golf history by creating the most spectacular golf course on earth." It is scheduled for completion in 2013. ==History== In 2006, former Charles Schwab executive, Brian Tucker, saw the potential for a golf course on the plot of land and subsequently contracted Tiger Woods as the development’s golf course architect, the third course to be designed by him in the world. Because of the unique topography and coastline, the land became one of the most sought after golf design projects in the industry. Tiger Woods was privately awarded the contract to design the golf course in early 2008. On June 15, 2008 during the final round of the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, the public first caught wind of the Punta Brava project at the ensuing press conference on the Sunday evening. Woods was asked what he had originally planned to do the following day, briefly mentioning his site visit to Punta Brava, although he was closely guarded about it. Events at the Open, however, led to him to postpone his visit to the following week when he visited Punta Brava on June 23. He surveyed the site on foot, despite having a knee injury, finalizing his latest course routing.〔 Tucker noted, "Tiger's a perfectionist. He just keeps working the routing and working it."〔 The project was officially announced at a press conference at the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles in October 2008 with capital support from billionaire Red McCombs In the ''Wall Street Journal''’s coverage of the news conference, golf writer John Paul Newport opined after the conference, "Woods's name guarantees cachet and, judging by the layout shown at PuntaBrava.com, it's possible that the course will break into the world's top 20 rankings on the day it opens. It looks to be a new and improved version of Cypress Point on California's Monterey Peninsula." In April 2011, it was reported that the development had been delayed and that Woods has not visited Punta Brava for some time, and that his other two development projects in Dubai and Asheville, North Carolina were also troubled following the media coverage of Wood's infidelities. However, Tucker has seen the delay as positive and has reportedly said that "We said, ‘Let’s talk about prices.’ Before, we were looking at the $3 million-$12 million ranges; now based on all of this we’re looking at $800,000 to $3.9 million. We took advantage of a difficult, stressful, frustrating situation that allowed us to refine the land plan for Punta Brava and give not what the market wants but what our people want."〔 The course is scheduled for completion in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Punta Brava )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Punta Brava Golf Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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