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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.
Tournament Players Club (TPC) is a chain of public and private golf courses operated by the PGA Tour. Most of the courses either are or have been hosts for PGA Tour events, with the remainder having frequently hosted events on the Korn Ferry Tour or PGA Tour Champions .
TPC Sawgrass's signature hole is the Stadium Course's 17th, known simply as the "Island Green," although it is technically a peninsula. [24] It measures only 137 yards (125 m) from tee to green (requiring only a pitching wedge for most pros), [ 25 ] but it consists of nothing but a 78-foot (24 m)-long green with a tiny bunker in front of it. [ 26 ]
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 ...
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In 1976 the PGA Tour agreed a multi-year deal to play the event up the coast at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach in mid-March, beginning in 1977. [13] [14] Since 1982, [15] [16] it has been played across the road to the west, at the Stadium Course at TPC at Sawgrass. [7] The word "Tournament" was dropped from the title following the ...
PGA West (La Quinta, California) private course – 1987; resort course – 1987; English Turn Golf & Country Club (New Orleans) – 1988; Golf Club Crans-Sur-Sierre (Crans-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland) – 1988; Golf Club Gut Altentann (Henndorf, Salzburg, Austria) – 1988; Kauai Lagoons (Lihue, Hawaii) Kiele course – 1988; Mokihana course – 1989
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