Big Cedar Lodge a big reason to watch PGA Tour Champions this week

The PGA Tour Champions is holding its first-ever Monday through Wednesday event this week, the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National.

The PGA Tour Champions is holding its first-ever Monday through Wednesday event this week, the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National at Big Cedar Lodge.

The event is getting a burst of attention because Phil Mickelson decided to make his Champions debut at the event.

But there’s another reason to pay attention this week: The golf course is simply spectacular.

Ozarks National in Hollister, Missouri, this week’s tournament site designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, is ranked No. 1 in the state on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for 2020.

The No. 2 course in Missouri is Big Cedar Lodge’s Buffalo Ridge, a Tom Fazio-designed track that hosted the first of consecutive Champions events on the property, which also includes a par-3 course called Top of the Rock, a 13-hole short course called Mountain Top and, coming soon, the first public-access course by Tiger Woods called Payne’s Valley, in honor of Payne Stewart.

Big Cedar Lodge is located near Branson, Missouri, in the southwest corner of the state.

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