Ron DeSantis in hot water for plan involving Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus to put golf courses in a state park
A proposal to put golf courses in a Florida state park — which has landed Gov. Ron DeSantis in hot water politically — involved Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A proposal to put golf courses in a Florida state park — which has landed Gov. Ron DeSantis in hot water politically — involved two of the biggest names in professional golf history: Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.
The proposal to build courses at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Southeast Florida is now put on hold after bipartisan pushback and protests across the state. But had the idea received state approval, and both Woods and Nicklaus would have been involved in course-design work.
“There were actually going to be at least two courses; one would be a Tiger course and one would be a Jack course,” Eugene Stearns, an attorney who represents Nicklaus, told NBC News.
He said Nicklaus, who has designed more than 300 courses across the world, would have done the work free of charge had the proposal become a reality.
“For Jack, it was a charitable issue,” Stearns said.
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