Sensational Sawgrass

As host of THE PLAYERS Championship and headquarters of the PGA Tour, the TPC Sawgrass is one of the most revered places in all of golf. We travel to Florida to see for ourselves

Course File
The eighteenth with new clubhouse beyondStadium Course, TPC Sawgrass
Par: 72. Yardage: 7,215
Course/Slope Rating: 75.0/149
Architect: Pete Dye
Greens Fee: $350

Getting a Tee Time
Both courses are accessible throughout the year; however the Stadium Course closes approximately three weeks prior to THE PLAYERS Championship, which next takes place from 4-10 May, 2009. Visit www.tpc.com/sawgrass for booking. Tee times are also available through the Marriott Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa (www.sawgrassmarriot.com), where the majority of overseas visitors choose to stay.

Numbers Game
40,000: Number of rounds played each year on the Stadium Course

120,000: Number of balls recovered each year from the lake on seventeen

66: The number of strokes it took Angelo Spagnolo, a 31-year-old grocery store manager, to complete the seventeenth in “America’s Worst Avid Golfer” contest in 1985. Spagnolo hit 27 balls in the water from the teebox and drop area. Rules officials finally directed him to putt around the hazard and down the narrow path that leads to the green.

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