Dubai Says Tiger Woods Development Will Proceed as Planned

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)
Dec 17th 2009 at 2:02PM

Some of Tiger Woods' sponsors and business associates are distancing themselves from the sports star in the wake of his mushrooming mistress scandal; however the Dubai backers of the first ever Woods-designed golf course and housing development say they'll proceed as planned with the megabucks project. The move is surprising given the iffy emirate's recent financial troubles as well as the UAE's extremely strict laws and outlook on sexual misconduct, real or perceived. The company building The Tiger Woods Dubai housing development and golf course said in a statement Wednesday it remains committed to completing the course, a 60,000-square-foot clubhouse, an 80-suite boutique hotel for VIP guests, 300 luxury villas, 20 mansions and a community retail area, all bearing the increasingly dubious Tiger Woods brand. The developer, part of the Dubai Holding conglomerate owned by the city-state's ruler, says "progress continues" on the project but gave no specifics, the AP reports. As we reported the other day, Woods' travails are likely to end up preventing him from becoming the world's first billionaire athlete, a goal he had nearly attained.

Tags: celebrity, Dubai, golf, Tiger Woods, TigerWoods, UAE

Filed under: Sports, Real Estate Developments, Wealth, Crimes and Misdemeanors

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frilund Dec 18th 2009 2:49AM

The guy cheated on his wife, which is not good! But... Look how people are treating him now. Now talk about forgivness, they reject him and are just childish, and these are supposed to be adults?

Perhaps he feels sorry for what happened, perhaps he does not. Either way, why should we throw accusations at him, and treat him like many do? So he's bad for their business now? How much better and finer are these people if we look closely at them?

vor Dec 24th 2009 6:30PM

Are you serious?

The guy was banging every skank he was around and taking money on his good boy, clean cut, super athlete status.

Everyone of the developers of this could all be practicing adultery or polygamy for all I care, there paying the dude for his good name on the title.