Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin It’s been a very good year for Tiger Woods. He just won his 82 nd tournament, moving into a tie for all-time first place, and while he is also second in major victories to only Jack Nicklaus, he closed that gap too with a dramatic comeback win at the Masters. Now Tiger is stalking Jack in another profession, course design. Admittedly Nicklaus has a much bigger lead here, having done over 400 courses to Tiger’s handful—most of which are in far-flung parts of the world and still quite a ways from their grand openings. But in this case it looks like Tiger might actually be off to the better start: When Nicklaus first turned to design, his courses had a reputation for being extremely difficult, and it is always a question whether someone as good as Tiger, exceptionally long and arguably the best ball striker in history, can understand the game from the perspective of the average golfer and build courses a recreational player could enjoy. Having just toured his first public course in the nation, the answer in equivocally yes, he can. He just did. Payne’s Valley is probably going to be the…