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The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA of America) is an American organization of golf professionals that was founded in 1916. Consisting of nearly 29,000 members, the PGA of America's undertaking is to establish and elevate the standards of the profession and to grow interest and participation in the game of golf.
PGA National Resort is a resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It has five championship 18-hole golf courses, [ 2 ] the most famous of which is "The Champion", which has hosted the 1983 Ryder Cup , the 1987 PGA Championship , the Senior PGA Championship for 19 consecutive years from 1982 to 2000, and the PGA Tour 's Cognizant Classic since 2007.
The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour Champions (age 50 and older), the Korn Ferry Tour (for professional players who have not yet qualified to play on the PGA Tour), and PGA Tour Americas.
Augusta National Golf Club has about 300 members at any given time. Membership is strictly by invitation: there is no application process. In 2004, USA Today published a list of all the current members. [39] Membership is believed to cost between $100,000 and $300,000 and annual dues were estimated in 2020 to be less than $30,000 per year. [40]
While the club had once offered a membership discount to members of Congress, this had been discontinued in the 1970s, and the club's high initiation fees (then over $100,000) and long waiting list dissuaded most from joining. [9] By 2011, it was said that zero members of Congress numbered amongst its members.
Shoal Creek has played host to numerous PGA, USGA, and NCAA events, including the PGA Championship (1984, 1990), the U.S. Amateur (1986), and the U.S. Junior Amateur (2008). ). It hosted the Regions Tradition, a senior major for five years (2011–2015), until its move to Greystone Country Club, a few minutes down the road
Goslings Bear Trap (plus taxes and fees) - One of the best viewing spots in professional golf. The venue offers sightlines to all the action on the signature par-3 17th hole and the 16th green.
In 2020, Harding Park became the first TPC course to host a major when it hosted the PGA Championship. The flagship Tournament Players Club for the PGA Tour is TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, designed in 1980 and now the headquarters of the PGA Tour. TPC courses are designed to accommodate the large crowds attracted to high-profile ...