Tiger’s Baja California project | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

It will be interesting to follow how Tiger Woods’ course project in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, unfolds, given the negative news on the drug-war front emanating from the region.

Woods is designing an ocean-front course as part of the Punta Brava development, where one-acre homesites are selling for $3 million. It is expected to open in 2011.

Ensenada is 56 miles south of San Diego and the U.S.-Mexico border. Most of the violence has occurred in or around the border town of Tijuana, where just this week four U.S. citizens were found beaten, stabbed and murdered. But other tourist areas in the area, notably Rosarito Beach and Ensenada, have not been immune. In January, Santiago Meza Lopez, who was alleged to have confessed to disposing of 300 bodies by dissolving them in acid at the behest of a drug cartel, was arrested near Ensenada.

Last month, Time magazine ran a storywith this headline: “Baja, Land of …