Professional golfer/multi-millionaire/serial adulterer Tiger Woods will open his first restaurant in Florida later this spring. News about The Woods Jupiter: Sports and Dining Club — to be located at the Harbourside Place development in Jupiter, Florida — first broke last year.
Golf magazine spills more details in its latest issue:The name — while clunky — was chosen for a very specific reason. Developer Nicholas Mastroianni II claims that Woods was not allowed to use his first name with his last name in the restaurant name because Nike “has the rights to the name Tiger Woods.” Apparently anytime Mastroianni wants to use Woods’ name in a press release or marketing material, “he needs permission from Woods’ business people.”
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