Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, has set a strict screening system for potential customers planning to buy property in Tiger Woods Dubai, a private residential golf community development in Dubailand, a top executive said yesterday.

"We follow a point-screening process to qualify our clients to buy property in this development and they will have to adhere to a necessary pre-qualification system we have set for them," said Abdullah Fareed Al Gurg, Project Director of the Tiger Woods Dubai.

The screening process will usually trickle down to the membership to the golf course as well to the residents, he added.

Al Gurg told Associated Press that they were spending Dh4 billion to build the development, which will include Al Ruwaya, a 55-million square feet golf course designed by Tiger Woods.

"One of the toughest issues on the development is transforming 55 million square feet of desert into a green space, which is almost twice the size of New York Central Park and almost four times the size of London's Hyde Park," he said.

There will be more than 30,000 trees and 480,000 shrubs in the project in order to create the world's largest nursery, he added.

According to Tatweer, the initial phase of the golf course was on track for completion by third week of 2009. The residential development will be completed by third quarter of 2010.

Tiger Woods Dubai will comprise luxury residences, which include 22 palaces, 75 mansions and 100 signature villas. There will be a luxury boutique hotel with 89 suites and 14 bungalows.

Al Gurg said the hotel will target top clientele, while Lebanese designer Elie Saab will design the interiors.

Speaking at the launch, Tiger Woods said: "I want this to be an oasis and an escape from the city. Dubai has evolved quite a bit and I want people to come out here and find this golf-course an escape from the hustle-bustle of the city and find something that is serene. The people I have seen so far with regards to what they are doing for Dubai and the immense expansion makes it an attractive destination. Dubai is always about being the biggest, the greatest the newest, which is why I am designing my first golf course," he added.