The Tiger Woods course designed for Mike Trout is complete

In recent months, status reports include Tiger Woods are mainly focused on his latest round of rehab. Here is a more exciting update. It’s about Trout National-The Reserve, Woods’ collaboration with the baseball star Mike Trout.

If you keep up with golf headlines, you’re likely familiar with the project’s outline, a private destination golf club in Trout’s southern New Jersey hometown of Vineland that features a championship course by the golf architecture firm of Woods. TGR design. In the nearly two years since word of Trout National first got out, details about the property have been kept under wraps. But as work progresses, a clearer picture of the club has taken shape.

The course itself was completed in October and, thanks to a stretch of forgiving weather, all 18 holes are now fully grassed. They make up a tough par-72 layout that measures 7,455 yards, with a fairway that takes advantage of the rugged terrain of what was once a silica sand mining site. The course design is intended to highlight the imaginative stroke, with many greens accessible from the ground game and fairways around them that allow for creative recoveries.

“It’s going to be challenging,” says Tyler Trout, Mike’s brother, who heads the club’s development team. “But I don’t see people losing too many balls here.”

like FIELD takes deeper roots, the build continues on a Trout-inspired hardware slate. In a baseball tip, a comfort station called the Dugout is nearing completion after the 14th and 16th innings. True to its name, its design mirrors that of dugouts in MLB stadiums, with stadium seating as a place to view pitches from ground level and a digital scoreboard displaying scores from players around the field.

Meanwhile, a more expansive checkpoint has already been completed. A full food and beverage venue (named Aaron’s, in honor of Mike’s late brother-in-law, who enjoyed a lifelong reputation) is located between the 6th and 11th holes in a golf course of golf. several times throughout a round and boasts wraparound terraces, fire pits, outdoor cooking and an indoor-outdoor bar that is intended to be a place where members and their guests can mingle, watch and, if the spirit moves them them, to treat their friends in other groups with harsh concerns.

Trout National is located within easy striking distance of Philadelphia and Atlantic City, in a region that is home to some of the country’s most popular courses, but aims to strike a classic-contemporary balance by appealing to golfers with a course designed for purists. in a medium without filler or starch.

“There will be a feeling that has grown in golf over the last decade or so,” says Trout. “It’s pure golf. You don’t see any houses. But the culture and vibe is more modern and relaxed.”

In keeping with this ethos, golf offerings will include a fully floodlit short course, the Bullpen; a 30,000-square-foot field under pitching lights and a short-game area; and a performance center with three hitting centers, one of which will function as an assembly station, along with high-tech training tools such as TrackMan, Force Plate by Swing Catalyst and an indoor pitching lab.

Anchoring the clubhouse will be a spacious clubhouse designed in the style of a stately manor, with slate roofs, limestone walls and wood accents, and amenities such as a spa, a 2,500-bottle wine cellar, a barber shop, a bowling alley and a fitness center designed by Trout. Like all other infrastructure at Trout National, which includes a helipad, and five cottages and two lodges for overnighters, the clubhouse is scheduled to be completed before the clubhouse’s grand opening in April 2026.

Before that, members’ play is expected to begin in 2025, although the exact time for this has yet to be determined. According to Tyler Trout, the membership ranks will be kept small and will consist of athletes, young business professionals, entrepreneurs and “other avid gamers who enjoy the game the way we do.”

Among those avid golfers is Mike Trout, who doesn’t carry a handicap but can shoot into the 60s when his game is sharp. However, he has not played recently. Like Woods, he’s been sidelined with injuries this season, but that hasn’t kept him completely off the course. In a meeting last summer that caused a stir on social media, Trout joined Woods for a walking tour of Trout National, where the two talked about details as the course neared completion. Rehab is not their only common pursuit.