Tiger Woods Launches His Golf Course El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas Steve DiMeglio - USA Today
go to original December 17, 2014

Tiger Woods discussing El Cardonal and Diamante in Cabo San Lucas. (DiamanteCaboSanLucas)

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – Eight years after he created his golf course design business, six years after the seismic downward shift in the global economy and three months after Hurricane Odile blasted through these parts, Tiger Woods finally opened the first golf course with his signature on it.

At the bottom tip of the Baja Peninsula, at 8:40 a.m. local time Tuesday with a mariachi band 14 instruments strong nearby and the Pacific Ocean off in the distance, Woods sent the ceremonial first tee shot hit at El Cardonal at Diamante, an upscale resort/housing complex that is a playground for both young and old and everyone in between.

Woods, who has lost 15 pounds the past two weeks due to a lingering illness, found a fairway bunker with his drive as nearly 500 people walked along as he played the front nine. While under the weather, he still was upbeat.

"We knew this day would come," Woods said.

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