As the old adage goes: "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." If you're in Tiger Woods' shoes, however, you just build one.
Tiger Woods 'Doesn't Need to be Back Where He Was'
The former world No. 1 is constructing his first major and public entrepreneurial investment, an 8,000-square-foot restaurant called The Woods Jupiter: Sports and Dining Club. Unlike his investment in the energy-drink start-up Fuse Science, this is a business Woods has control of.
A reporter told NIcholas A. Mastroianni, a transplanted New Yorker at Harbourside Place in Jupiter, Florida, that Woods was behind the wheel of a shiny Ferrari with one Michael Jordan.
Rory McIlroy Starting to Feel the Heat
When asked what it was like to have built a development for a 15-time Major champion to show off to Michael Jordan, Mastroianni said (via Golf.com): "It kind of justifies what we did and why we did it. Tiger's presence finalized what we are doing. It validates it."
According to Glenn Greenspan, Woods' spokesman, there is no set date for the restaurant's opening.
"Construction on the restaurant is on-going, but no opening date has yet been set."
Woods has a 10-year lease for the restaurant property, and across a skywalk, another 8,000 square feet of office space, where Mastroianni says Woods plans to move his ETW Corporation office.
"He'll have his own private elevator," Mastroianni added. "His problem is that he gets mobbed wherever he goes, but he told me, 'I want to use the front door [of his restaurant].'"
Mastroianni says he is yet to play golf with Woods, but feels he's spent "enough time to know him."
© Copyright 2024 Sports World News, All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
