Chicago's proposed Tiger Woods
Beau Welling
With lead designer Tiger Woods getting treatment for a sleep disorder and dependency on pain medication   TGR Design President Bryon Bell and senior design consultant Beau Welling  appeared Wednesday to discuss the plan.
" We  believe in catering the golf experience to a wide swath of people â juniors  elderly  avid players  not-so-avid players " Welling said. "One of Tiger's tenets is playability. How can we bring more people out to the golf course and allow them to have fun?"
" We  asked  ourselves : How can  we  maximize the experience on the lake?"  Welling  said. "The holes are going to be absolutely spectacular. (No.) 12 will have a peninsula green  water right  left and long  with a marquee snapshot of downtown Chicago. And it could be windy."
â¢ The design has five par-3s and three par-5s because that's what suited the land.  Welling  has worked with Woods since designing a practice range and putting course in 2005 at the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim  Calif.
 Beau Welling  senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design   walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune)  Beau  Welling  senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design  walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
"It's very much Tiger Woods  " Welling  said of the Chicago routing. " He  is very passionate about golf design and gets very involved.  He  has definite ideas about what  he  wants to accomplish  and I view my job as being a conduit to take  his  ideas and filter that into (the plan)."
"One of the things Tiger believes in strongly is width (of fairways) "  Welling  said. "Width makes it way more playable  keeps speed of play flowing. And it's more fun. Who wants to lose a golf ball? I don't care if you're wealthy or not  no one likes to lose a golf ball.
With lead designer Tiger Woods getting treatment for a sleep disorder and dependency on pain medication   TGR Design President Bryon Bell and senior design consultant Beau Welling  appeared Wednesday to discuss the plan.
" We  believe in catering the golf experience to a wide swath of people â juniors  elderly  avid players  not-so-avid players " Welling said. "One of Tiger's tenets is playability. How can we bring more people out to the golf course and allow them to have fun?"
"  [TGT]   asked   [TGT]  : How can   [TGT]   maximize the experience on the lake?"  Welling  said. "The holes are going to be absolutely spectacular. (No.) 12 will have a peninsula green  water right  left and long  with a marquee snapshot of downtown Chicago. And it could be windy."
â¢ The design has five par-3s and three par-5s because that's what suited the land.  Welling  has worked with Woods since designing a practice range and putting course in 2005 at the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim  Calif.
 Beau Welling  senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design   walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune)  Beau  Welling  senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design  walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
"It's very much Tiger Woods  " Welling  said of the Chicago routing. " He  is very passionate about golf design and gets very involved.  He  has definite ideas about what  he  wants to accomplish  and I view my job as being a conduit to take  his  ideas and filter that into (the plan)."
"One of the things Tiger believes in strongly is width (of fairways) "  Welling  said. "Width makes it way more playable  keeps speed of play flowing. And it's more fun. Who wants to lose a golf ball? I don't care if you're wealthy or not  no one likes to lose a golf ball.