Cobbs Creek

You just love to see a lot of the, uh, professional circuits making their way through, you know, the Philadelphia Cricket Club, and Aranamink, and Merion.

[lip smack] There's even talk now about potentially hosting a major one day at the new refurbished, refurbished Cobbs Creek.

Refurbished, is that a word that I can use for a new course? Uh, dude, I grew up cutting my teeth at Cobbs Creek, playing that ch- that, that chompie at 7,000 yards.

With the condition it was under, it was really, really hard.

I'm really excited to see what they do.

You've likely heard, uh, of a lot of these places that have come through as success stories.

Um, I mentioned what's happening in Cobbs Creek in Philadelphia, and the, um, revitalization of the Hugh Wilson designed old course there, um, among a, a big investment into that property.

$180 million is their pledge, uh, towards, uh, turning that into this massive golf facility with a nine-hole par three course, another nine-holer from Gil Hanse, and, uh, that restored old course, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner.

A- Augusta is another notable ex- example from the past year, uh, what they did at The Patch.

because I started looking into this and realized I knew the headline, but I didn't know the actual story.

Cobbs Creek opened up in 1916.

It was designed by Hugh Wilson, the Philadelphia architect also known for Marion Golf Club.

And Cobbs Creek wasn't just another place to play golf.

At a time when a lot of golf clubs excluded black players and women, Cobbs Creek welcomed people from different backgrounds.

One of the golfers who learned the game, there was a guy, his name was Charlie Sifford.

He went on to become the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, and Sifford called Cobbs Creek home.

That history is part of why this means so much to Tiger Woods.

We hear that a lot about golf courses in the Northeast and, I'm bought into it as far as Philly.

I think the PGA Tour needs to have an event in Philadelphia every year, and I think that's going to come to fruition with some of the insight I've gotten on the development of Cobbs Creek, and they're in the middle of building a full 18-hole track, and that could be what they've done with Cobbs Creek.

If you're in the Philly area and just looking to get some practice in, I mean, Cobbs Creek has one of the best public facilities I've ever seen in Philly.

They've got a great range with all the state-of-the-art technology.

I don't even know what it's called.

It's not Foresight.

It's not Trackman.

They have some kind of technology at Cobbs Creek where, like, you can – You could be on the range, but on the simulator screen, you're bowling or playing Angry Birds.