Cancun – Mexico's Lorena Ochoa, the world's top-ranked women's golfer from 2007 to 2010, and Australian golfing great Greg Norman will design a new course at the Mayakoba ecotourism complex in the Mexican Caribbean, Spanish construction group OHL said Wednesday.
The golf course will be part of a project that also involves construction of homes for workers at the complex, OHL President Juan Miguel Villar said.
"The development of the second stage of the project is becoming an obsession and that's why we're announcing that Loreno Ochoa, together with Greg Norman, will participate in the design of the golf course," the OHL president said.
"I'm very happy and excited to participate in my first golf course design project," said Ochoa, who entered into a business partnership last year with the 56-year-old Norman, a two-time British Open champion and experienced course designer.
The second stage of the Mayakoba project will be carried out on a 400-hectare (987-acre) property that is located well inland from the Caribbean Sea. OHL plans to invest $1 billion in that tract of land in the coming years, Villar said.
Another course located at the complex will be the site of this weekend's Mayakoba Golf Classic, the only PGA Tour event played on Mexican soil.
OHL has invested more than $1 billion in that area of Mexico, with three hotels already in operation and two under construction.
The 29-year-old Ochoa, winner of two LPGA major championships and considered Mexico's greatest-ever female golfer, announced her retirement from the sport in April 2010.
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