“We are open to the public. Guests are encouraged to come, even if you’re not playing golf,” says Billy Dettlaff, the PGA Tour’s national director of golf as we sit in his spacious office inside the club’s magnificent clubhouse. “We encourage people to come, see the clubhouse, see all the memorabilia, the history.”
This is something that you quickly learn about Sawgrass: they welcome visitors with open arms. Let’s face it, apart from a handful of public courses in the British Isles and the United States, the majority courses on the top-100 list, of which Sawgrass is firmly entrenched, are strictly private. If you are permitted on their hallowed turf, they certainly don’t go out of their way to advertise the fact. Sawgrass is as inclusive as they come. OK, at US$350 for a round on Stadium Course, it’s pricey. But this isn’t just any old round—this is a round in which you’ll be following in the footsteps of champions.
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