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Tiger Woods is coming to Cowtown. Or at least he's designing a golf course around a more than $100 million, 600-home gated community near Fort Worth.
The pro golf champion announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he is designing a second course around a 914-acre community in Aledo, about 20 miles southwest of Fort Worth on what's known as Kelly Ranch. Woods, the 15-time major tournament winner, designed the first championship golf course nearly a decade ago in 2014 with developer BlueJack National within a 767-acre residential community in Houston.
"Now, we're celebrating that same BlueJack spirit and passion to Fort Worth — a city celebrated not only as Cowtown but also as golf town," Woods wrote in an Oct. 3 letter on the community's website. "With legends like Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the love for the game is genuine."
BlueJack National was founded by Andy and Kristin Mitchell, and PGA Tour player JJ Henry. The new 914-acre gated community, dubbed BlueJack Ranch, will feature 600 homes along with a club house and 18-hole golf course. Amenities will include a ranch with eight horses, longhorns and miniature donkeys, a spa and wellness area, pools, tennis and pickleball courts and a family entertainment center. Among the 600 ranch members, 400 will be members of the golf course designed by Woods.
Andy Mitchell, cofounder of BlueJack and managing partner at Dallas-based private equity banking firm Lantern Asset Management, said BlueJack Management Partners LLC will finish construction on the Ranch Club in the beginning of 2025, and a golf course at the beginning of 2026. The community will also feature a Lantern Entertainment film/TV and podcast studio. Lantern Asset Management acquired The Weinstein Co., the movie company built by now-disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, out of bankruptcy and created Lantern Entertainment.
The site where BlueJack management is building used to be where Fort Worth Escalante Golf had plans to build a $100 million golf club with Henry, but Mitchell said the deal fell apart. The development still has Fort Worth roots, he said. Mitchell and Henry went to Texas Christian University together, he said. Henry started putting the deal together five years ago, and Mitchell joined late last year to make the plans a reality.
Walter Littlejohn, general manager of the Fort Worth Club, and Michael Bennett, CEO of Fort Worth-based Bennett Partners Architecture, are among the senior advisors on the project.
Infrastructure for the development is already in place, Mitchell said, and they are replatting properties and expecting to plant grass for the golf course in June.
At its core, he said, the private community is centered around family.
"There's a lot of accomplished people in Dallas, Fort Worth, and a lot of people moving here, and life takes a lot out of you," Mitchell said. "So the entire property was developed in that modus operandi, that it was a safe place to come. It's a private community, and you've got all manner of sports and recreation."
The community will come with six different home types ranging from 1,140 to 3,500 square feet, from two bed/bath clubhouse casitas to four-bedroom homes with two-car garages and screened porches.
Pricing hasn't been detailed in Fort Worth, but in BlueJack's community in Houston, the three- and four-bedroom cottages cost from the high $600,000s to the low $800,000s. Custom homes at BlueJack's Houston community are priced between $1.5 million and $2.5 million.
Tiger Woods has designed golf courses across the country with his firm TGR Designs. That includes a mini-golf concept called PopStroke, which has a location in The Colony that opened earlier this year.
More details about the Aledo golf course will be revealed once Woods attends a design meeting in Aledo at an undisclosed date, Woods wrote in his letter. The last time Woods played in Fort Worth was in 1997, at the tournament at Colonial Country Club.
