Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake are teaming as much as open a sports activities bar in St Andrewsbut their daring plans have enraged native residents.
Woods and Timberlake have launched into a gastropub enterprise referred to as T-Squared Social and just lately opened their first unit in Manhattan, New York. They’ve submitted plans to Fife Council for a second web site, near St Andrews Previous Course, which might see a Thirties cinema transformed right into a sports activities bar.
The New Image Home on North Road can be reworked right into a eating venue that includes golf simulators and big screens to observe sport. It could retain one in every of its movie screens to point out theatrical releases.
The cinema’s managing director David Morris has mentioned the funding can be essential for securing the cinema’s long-term future. However some native residents are important of the plans, with one telling The Courier that the proposal to change an “iconic” constructing is “disrespectful”.
“This city has been superb to Tiger Woods and this isn’t the best way to repay residents,” mentioned Neil Dobson, of St Andrews group council. “An American bar is totally out of preserving. It is going to be filled with American golfers with nothing left within the city for kids in any respect.”
Woods, who received two of his three Open Championships at St Andrews, mentioned in a press release on the bar: “I’ve been lucky sufficient to get pleasure from many particular moments right here at St Andrews. All of us wished to convey our T-Squared Social idea right here so as to add to the area people and be a welcoming place for these residing in St Andrews and for guests alike.”
Timberlake is a golf fanatic who just lately attended the Ryder Cup in Rome and has performed in a lot of pro-am tournaments, together with the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship at St Andrews. He and Woods have launched into earlier enterprise ventures collectively, and so they co-own Albany in The Bahamas, a 600-acre luxurious resort.
“I’ve come to St Andrews many instances to play golf. I’m honoured to have the ability to put money into the city and produce our second T-Squared Social right here,” the singer mentioned. “Our new venue is a lot greater than a typical sports activities bar expertise – it’s a spot you possibly can go to be entertained with out sacrificing high quality or consolation.”