Courtesy of the Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau

Tiger Woods' golf course design canvas includes views across the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Yep, it's official. Tiger Woods will design his first American golf course in the mountains of North Carolina.

Just two days after notching his 13th major tournament victory at the PGA Championship in Tulsa, Okla., Tiger Woods yesterday held a press conference at the headquarters of The Cliffs Communities in Traveler's Rest, S.C., to announce that he'll design the golf course at the company's eighth master-planned community, The Cliffs at High Carolina near Asheville.

Now for the bad news. The golf course will not likely be ready for play until 2010 and, when its doors finally open, only members and guests of the private club will be allowed inside.

Not to worry. You'll soon be able to buy a house on the golf course, which is a prerequisite for a golf membershp. Prices are estimated to range from $750,000 to $5 million, but that might come with the ability to hobknob with Woods himself, who answered, "yes," when asked if he planned on buying property at High Carolina. A golf membership will cost you an additional $125,000, though it grants playing privileges at all of The Cliffs' seven other courses in North and South Carolina.

Details were scant for the course design itself, but Woods said that it would be a walking course, a challenge to pull off given the mountainous topography and 4,000-foot elevation of the site. Still, Woods was confident, saying, "Even an idiot can't mess this up...it's an amazing piece of property with a southern view of seven mountain ranges."

Regardless of when the course opens, you can be sure it won't be before everything is to Woods' liking.

"As you know," he said, "I'm kind of a perfectionist."

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