TPC Sawgrass
Located in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, TPC Sawgrass is the very first Tournament Player’s Club (TPC) and a fixture on nearly every golfer’s bucket list. World-renowned architect, Pete Dye, designed the 36 hole complex that hosts the annual Web.com Tour Championship. TPC Sawgrass currently holds the annual PGA Tour Players Championship, considered by many as the 5th major.
The resort has received many awards and recognition over the years. Golfweek recently ranked the Stadium Course as the 9th Best Resort Course in the United States while Golf Digest listed it as the 9th best Modern Golf Course in the United States and 1st in the state of Florida.
TPC Sawgrass consists of two championship courses, the Players Stadium Course, and Dye’s Valley Course. In addition to the famous golf courses, Sawgrass offers a state of the art TOUR Academy, club house and fabulous dining options with the NINETEEN and Traditions restaurants. NINETEEN received the “Award of Excellence” by Wine Spectator from 2008 – 2012 for one of the most prominent restaurant wine lists in the world with over 230 varieties.
Stadium Course
The concept of the Stadium Course centers around a facility intended to hold major championship golf that is accessible to the fans. Several sloped areas give fans the atmosphere of a stadium with unobstructed views as they watch players tee off, hit approach shots and putt on the greens. The par 72 Stadium Course plays 7,215 yards from the championship tees with a difficult 155/76.8 slope and rating. The Stadium Course favors no particular style of play and offers one of the greatest challenges for even the best players in the world. The course requires length and accuracy to maneuver the difficult layout of several doglegs in both directions. Unlike other PGA Tour venues, the Stadium Course requires several precise shots to specific targets. The course is famous for it’s two closing holes, the island green on 17 and difficult 462 yard closing hole with water running down the entire left side.
17th Island Green
The signature par-three 17th hole on the Stadium course features the iconic island green. In fact, the 137 yard par-three is known as one of the most famous and recognizable holes in the world. The threat of missing the green paralyzes players with fear under the pressure coming down the stretch on the 71st hole at the Players Championship. The 17th hole has delivered some of the most memorable moments in golf history. Tiger Woods’s birdie putt paved the way for one of the most improbable comeback victories during the 1994 U.S. Amateur. Only a few years later, Fred Couples made arguably the most famous hole in 3 at the 1999 Players Championship after dunking his first ball in the water.
Dye’s Valley Course
Dye’s Valley Course opened for play in 1987 and currently rates as the 24th Best Course You Can Play in Florida by Golfweek. The par 72 and 6,864 yard layout offers perfectly manicured surfaces and water on every hole. However, the Valley Course plays slightly easier with wider fairways and larger greens. The Valley Course has held its share of championship caliber events including the NFL Golf Classic, the final stage of Senior Qualifying School, the Senior Players Championship and the Web.com Tour’s Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open. The Web.com currently holds it’s Tour Championship on the Valley Course.
TOUR Academy
The Tour Academy offers extensive learning and improvement opportunities. Using three performance centers that hone and improve skills through the TOUR Academy Golf Instruction, golf fitness at the Perform6 Golf Fitness and custom club fitting through the TaylorMade Performance Lab.
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