Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation opened a new science education center at the Cobbs Creek Golf Club in West Philadelphia on Tuesday by inviting students from St. Francis de Sales School to attend its first classes.
The TGR Learning Lab is part of the $150 million plan to restore the historic golf club along Lansdowne Avenue, which closed in 2020 following decades of disrepair and flooding from the creek that runs through it. The club once played an instrumental role in promoting integration in the sport, hosting tournaments that welcomed all ethnicities during an era when most major courses in the U.S. were still restricted to white golfers.
The 30,000-square foot learning lab — the first completed phase of the restoration — has nine classrooms, music recording and podcast studios, a golf simulator and other amenities…