December 10, 2024. Excerpt courtesy of GOLF.com. By Josh Sens.
In recent months, status reports involving Tiger Woods have focused largely on his latest round of rehab. Here’s a more uplifting update. It concerns Trout National-The Reserve, Woods’ collaboration with baseball star Mike Trout.
If you keep up with golf headlines, you’re likely familiar with the outline of the project, a private destination golf club in Trout’s hometown of Vineland in southern New Jersey, featuring a championship course by Woods’ golf architecture firm, TGR Design. In the nearly two years since word of Trout National first got out, details about the property have been kept on the down-low. But as work progresses, a clearer picture of the club has taken shape.
The course itself was finished in October, and, thanks to a stretch of forgiving weather, all 18 holes are now fully grassed. They make up a brawny par-72 layout that tips out 7,455 yards, with a routing that takes advantage of the rumpled terrain of what used to be a silica sand mining site. The course design is meant to bring out imaginative shot-making, with many greens accessible by the ground game and runoffs around them that allow for creative recoveries.