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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.
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 ]
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. The grandstands that surround the 16th, which have a capacity of 20,000, are home to one of the most enthusiastic crowds on the PGA Tour. [3]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Stadium Course: Tour(s) PGA Tour: ... This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m ...