TPC Harding Park golf course - 18th. Courtesy of Harding Park. TPC Deere Run golf course. Weibring design that's fun to play. TPC Louisiana golf course - 4th. TPC Myrtle Beach golf course. TPC Tampa Bay golf course. Stadium golf course at TPC Scottsdale - 12th. Courtesy of TPC Scottsdale. TPC Las Vegas golf course - 10th. Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. But do you know the origin of the concept of stadium golf, and how the TPC golf courses network grew since Sawgrass' debut 38 years ago?
Much credit is due to Deane Beman, whose legendary commissionership included the immense expansion of the tour's footprint, which included with a new network of courses. In , the PGA Tour owned eight courses. Today, the TPC network includes 32 courses, both private and public-access, across three continents, with many other facilities either being sold or renamed since.
Is TPC Scottsdale and its raucous 16th hole the true origin of "stadium golf? It's neither in fact—the history of "stadium golf" may have started with a fan named Ford Hubbard who conceived of a "spectator golf course" all the way back in , according to Golf Digest's Ron Whitten. In , Golf Digest ran a diagram of Hubbard's design: a circular course routing, clubhouse in the center, with holes radiating like spokes in a wheel. His concept was simply 20 years ahead of its time.
Interestingly, Beman, then a tour player, played in at least one of these events. Though he might've had the idea for stadium golf already, the idea pre-dated him in some ways. So, yes, some of the TPC courses you can play the same way you play any other course: by making a tee time.
Others you can play through stay-and-play packages; others are closed to the general public unless a non-member is the guest of a member. You can delve into the particulars by visiting the TPC website at www. There are more than 30 golf courses in the TPC Network, most of them in the United States but with a few now at international locations.
The TPC courses that members of the public can play — these are either resort courses or daily fee courses — are:.
Occasionally a golf course loses the TPC designation. And the network expands from time to time with the creation or purchase of new golf courses. You can also investigate and book tee times through the TPC's site.
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