Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake’s St. Andrews sports activities bar transferring ahead

1000’s of followers flocked to the 18th gap of the Outdated Course at St. Andrews throughout the second spherical of the 2022 Open Championship to catch a final glimpse of Tiger Woods on the legendary hyperlinks.

However seems Woods’ presence will endure within the city the place he gained two of his three Open titles.

The Fife Council has granted Woods and companion Justin Timberlake planning permissions to transform St. Andrews New Image Home Cinema into the second location of the pair’s T-Squared Social sports activities bar.

The primary location from Woods and Timberlake opened in Midtown Manhattan final September. (The bar’s identify pays homage to the preliminary of Woods’ first identify and Timberlake’s final.)

The bar’s setting can be on North St., within the coronary heart of St. Andrews, lower than 200 yards from the primary tee of the Outdated Course. To accommodate T-Squared, the 90-year-old triplex theater will bear intensive renovations, together with the refurbishment of one of many theater’s full-sized screens for film nights and live-sports programming. These updates will see the theater live on as a public good for the neighborhood of St. Andrews throughout and after the interval when it’s remodeled right into a extra trendy house for T-Squared Social.

In accordance with the BBC, the Fife Council stated the applying from real-estate firm Nexus Luxurious Assortment — by which Timberlake and Woods are buyers together with 8AM Golf (GOLF.com’s mother or father firm) — would “defend and improve the character and look of the conservation space.”

“The deliberate T-Squared Social funding will allow the local people, college students and guests, the chance to expertise a broader vary of cinema, eating and leisure on the well-liked venue,” David Morris, the cinema’s managing director, stated in a press launch from the preliminary announcement in October. “The New Image Home will proceed to function as typical till additional discover. The Administrators look ahead to supporting T-Squared Social with their improvement plans and to welcoming new and current prospects into the New Image Home on completion of the re-development works.”

The New Image Home Cinema initially opened in 1930 and seats 910 folks, however the BBC reported the cinema’s homeowners stated it operates at simply 10 p.c capability and is “now not a viable stand-alone cinema operation.”

In accordance with the BBC, phrases of approval for the mission require work to start for the conversion of the cinema inside the subsequent three years.

Woods has performed in 5 Opens on the Outdated Course; Timberlake is also accustomed to the course as an everyday participant within the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship.

A golf diehard, Timberlake has develop into one of many recreation’s largest celeb buyers, working carefully along with his strategic companions at 8AM Golf throughout the corporate’s golf-focused belongings.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf crew and not too long ago returned to this system to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but additionally producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He might be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.