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PGA West is a set of 6 golf courses located in La Quinta, California. The PGA West Stadium Course was designed by Pete Dye and is viewed as the sequel to the TPC at Sawgrass . It was inspired by the Scottish links-style courses and at one point was considered one of Golf Digest 's Top 100 Courses in America.
Built on 415 acres (1.68 km 2) in the northeastern Florida swampland, it is about a mile west of the Atlantic Ocean.The course contains many challenging features: narrow fairways lined with hazards like marshes and "waste bunkers" (long strips of sand that groundskeepers never maintain); dozens of deep "pot bunkers," strategically placed to catch even a slightly misplaced shot; thick rough ...
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The following is a partial list of golf courses designed by Pete Dye. [1] He is credited with designing more than 200 courses internationally during his lifetime. [2] In 1982, Sports Illustrated wrote that Dye had a reputation for transforming "unpromising" land into picturesque and challenging golf courses, that required a style of play called "target golf".
Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish were commissioned by the PGA Tour to build a course to host the Phoenix Open starting in 1987. The Stadium Course was the result, at an approximate average elevation of 1,530 feet (470 m) above sea level. The par-3 16th hole on the Stadium Course is the only fully enclosed hole on the PGA Tour.
From 1987 until 1994, and again from 1998 to the present, a course at PGA West in La Quinta, (the TPC Stadium Golf Course in 1987 and the Arnold Palmer Private Course thereafter) became a permanent member of the roster; from 1995–97, Indian Ridge Country Club in Palm Desert replaced PGA West. To make room for a new permanent member, Eldorado ...
After 2013, the PGA Tour banned the practice of caddies racing the 150 yards (140 m) from the tee box to the green, citing injury concerns. [7] Former Arizona State players are very popular at the Phoenix Open, with many often wearing a Pat Tillman jersey when entering the 16th-hole stadium. Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm are popular there for ...
Great Waters Golf Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee, Greensboro, Georgia This is a list of golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus and his company Nicklaus Design, [1] a partnership between Nicklaus, his four sons, and his son-in-law—one of the largest golf design practices in the world.