LOS CABOS, Mexico – Ken Jowdy looks out from the sales center at the Legacy Club, the invitation-only private resort community ensconced in the laidback luxury of Diamante Cabo San Lucas, and begins making the sales pitch that has sold its share of multi-million-dollar lots and has prospective members clamoring for a pen to agree to six-figure initiation fees already.
“If you can picture landscaping trees and palm trees, in different pockets, and home sites on top and home sites on the right. There’s only going to be 14 lots, the Founder Estates, that are within the golf course. I’m building one for Tiger and one for me, we’re No. 1 and 2. [Jowdy let Tiger have No. 1.] I promised Tiger I’d have his done next year so I’ve got to get on my horse,” Jowdy says with a smile.
The Legacy Club will be Tiger’s third design at Diamante, joining El Cardonal, his first course design and the host course of the PGA Tour’s World Wide Technology Championship, and the Oasis Short Course. Diamante’s first course, The Dunes, was designed by Davis Love III, and is T-3 in Golfweek’s Best list for Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands and Central America. El Cardonal is 26th on that list.
Legacy Club will be the final course Jowdy builds here and as he noted, “We’ve got plenty of golf for everybody.” The idea behind the Legacy Club was to build something special with the number of members capped at 250.
“It’s been said we’re building a little city and this is going to be the country club inside the city,” Jowdy said.
Legacy Club at Diamante Cabo San Lucas (Adam Schupak/Golfweek)
An exclusive Shangri-La in the desert with five lakes, waterfalls behind greens and lush vegetation sounds a lot like Shadow Creek, the famed Tom Fazio layout not far from the Vegas Strip, and Jowdy realizes the comparisons, especially with his fondness for the place, are going to be made.
“I love that place. It’s one of my favorite places in the world, and I’m there quite a lot,” Jowdy said. “But I wouldn’t be arrogant enough to say that it would be like that. Sure, you could say it’s being used as a model. Yeah, that said, I don’t think anything’s going to match that, what they’ve created there, which is so unique and special. But with the water features and how the course flows here, we’ll have something unique and special too.”
Why bring back Tiger for the latest course? It’s really quite simple as Jowdy explained. “We did a…
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