Tiger Wood's Amazing Dubai Golf Course

[Derek]

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">A year after that infamous car crash, the American's fortunes seem as far from recovering as ever, with what has become a $1.1bn mirage in the Dubai desert</span>
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The decline and fall of &quot;brand Tiger Woods&quot; is a story best told not by the supermarket tabloids, golf's world rankings or this month's relaunch' of a career and an image so brutally damaged by personal scandal, but by a journey, along the Emirates Road to the south of Dubai and then left and down an unmarked road.

Drive for a mile over the speed bumps, past an abandoned security hut, until Tarmac becomes gravel and then another mile until the gravel becomes sand, and there it is: The Tiger Woods Dubai. The first golf course in the world designed by the man many consider, or at least considered, the greatest ever to play the game.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/nov/28/tiger-woods-golf-course-dubai

[SmoothOperator]

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Tiger Woods problem is that he comes off as being insincere...this was even before the 2009 incident which only served to confirm what many people had suspected.. that his persona was scripted and a facade. If he wants to rebuild he needs to take the chain smoking John Daley route...this is who I am, love me or hate me but what you see here is what it is. All of this business where he is trying to reach out to &quot;the fans&quot; on twitter with tweets that sound like they were written by a PR Agency is BS, because people innately know that he does not really give a fk about &quot;the fans&quot; and that his sole purpose in life is to shave a few strokes off his game, win more championships than his mentor Jack Nicholson and oh yea he wants to score with the ladies too. He should just say 'I am Tiger, love me or hate me I love to swing both of my woods'....and people would respect him more as person if he just kept it real.

That Disney land golf glub in Dubai still wont ever get built but at least people would start to feel like they know the guy, can relate to him and some of the sponsorship deals would come back.

[Skelly]

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I would love to see it

[SandiF]

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What do you want to see? What do you mean by &quot;keeping it real&quot;? The media continues to have a field day with Tiger, whether he is just playing his game of golf, or keeping quiet.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SmoothOperator</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tiger Woods problem is that he comes off as being insincere...this was even before the 2009 incident which only served to confirm what many people had suspected.. that his persona was scripted and a facade. If he wants to rebuild he needs to take the chain smoking John Daley route...this is who I am, love me or hate me but what you see here is what it is. All of this business where he is trying to reach out to &quot;the fans&quot; on twitter with tweets that sound like they were written by a PR Agency is BS, because people innately know that he does not really give a fk about &quot;the fans&quot; and that his sole purpose in life is to shave a few strokes off his game, win more championships than his mentor Jack Nicholson and oh yea he wants to score with the ladies too. He should just say 'I am Tiger, love me or hate me I love to swing both of my woods'....and people would respect him more as person if he just kept it real. </div></div>

[SmoothOperator]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What do you want to see? What do you mean by &quot;keeping it real&quot;? The media continues to have a field day with Tiger, whether he is just playing his game of golf, or keeping quiet.
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It is not what I want to see but about what he is putting out there in an effort to &quot;rebuild his image&quot;. The &quot;image building&quot; business is what got him into a pickle in the first place because some people felt let down by what was put out there vs the reality of what actually was. You don't &quot;build an image&quot; because an image is a facade. You live your life and you choose to communicate the reality of the life you live to people.

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SmoothOperator</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He should just say 'I am Tiger, love me or hate me I love to swing both of my woods'....and people would respect him more as person if he just kept it real.</div></div>

Well the people might respect him if he was like that, but it's not the people who stuff billions of dollars in sponsorship money into his pocket. He wants Nike etc to respect him - hence the double life: wholesome, married with two kids and blonde wife for Nike.
Darg wid too much money in reality.

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">A year after that infamous car crash, the American's fortunes seem as far from recovering as ever, with what has become a $1.1bn mirage in the Dubai desert</span>
</span>
The decline and fall of &quot;brand Tiger Woods&quot; is a story best told not by the supermarket tabloids, golf's world rankings or this month's relaunch' of a career and an image so brutally damaged by personal scandal, but by a journey, along the Emirates Road to the south of Dubai and then left and down an unmarked road.

Drive for a mile over the speed bumps, past an abandoned security hut, until Tarmac becomes gravel and then another mile until the gravel becomes sand, and there it is: The Tiger Woods Dubai. The first golf course in the world designed by the man many consider, or at least considered, the greatest ever to play the game.





http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010...f-course-dubai </div></div>

this is the only major project in Dubai that is mothballed?

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The survey conducted by Forbes shows that the annual amount earned by Tiger Woods is a staggering $82 million. Even after he got dropped by quite a number of the biggest brands that he was the face of, namely, Accenture, Gatorade and General Motors. Tiger Woods is currently sponsored by brands such as Nike and Entertainments Arts. Of course, the amount that he earns at present from his brand endorsements has decreased a lot from what he used to, but it has done nothing to affect his position as the top grosser in the brand market.</div></div>HERE

[Derek]

Re: Tiger Wood's Amazing Dubai Golf Course

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">A year after that infamous car crash, the American's fortunes seem as far from recovering as ever, with what has become a $1.1bn mirage in the Dubai desert</span>
</span>
The decline and fall of &quot;brand Tiger Woods&quot; is a story best told not by the supermarket tabloids, golf's world rankings or this month's relaunch' of a career and an image so brutally damaged by personal scandal, but by a journey, along the Emirates Road to the south of Dubai and then left and down an unmarked road.

Drive for a mile over the speed bumps, past an abandoned security hut, until Tarmac becomes gravel and then another mile until the gravel becomes sand, and there it is: The Tiger Woods Dubai. The first golf course in the world designed by the man many consider, or at least considered, the greatest ever to play the game.





http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010...f-course-dubai </div></div>

this is the only major project in Dubai that is mothballed? </div></div>


Out of many, one gets publicity.