110 TPC Blvd Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 |
904-273-3235 www.tpc.com/tpc-sawgrass |
Price to Play $200+ |
The TPC Sawgrass is in Ponte Vedra Beach between Jacksonville and St. Augustine. It's the bucket-list experience for the PLAYERS Stadium Course designed by the diabolical Pete Dye and made famous by the 17th Island Green.
The layout is a Florida, parkland design along native tree lined and mounded fairways in a predominately natural setting. There's extensive natural waste areas, multiple ponds, lakes, and wetlands with a variety of shapes and style of sand bunkers in addition to greenside collection areas. It's a long 7,215 yards, 76.8/155, course/slope ratings from the TPC tees with four shorter tees.
There's also the Valley course, and while somewhat overshadowed, is well regarded in its own right. It may not possess the significant design elements of the Stadium, but is challenging nonetheless with water hazards on every hole and well bunkered fairway landing zones and greens. There's numerous tees from 5,126 yards to 6,864 yards, the white tees are 6,125 yards, 70.9/130, course/slope ratings, designed by Pete Dye and Bobby Weed.