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All the golf courses used on the 2024 PGA Tour Champions schedule, from longest to shortest

The shortest golf course sits along the Southern California coast. The longest is in the Middle East.

The 28-event PGA Tour Champions schedule draws to a close at the 2024 Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Phoenix Country Club, host venue once for the season finale, is among the shortest golf courses on the tour’s 2024 slate.

Measuring in at 6,860 yards this year, there are just five that were shorter.

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The shortest golf course on the 2024 calendar sits along the Southern California coast. The longest is in the Middle East. Fifteen of the 28 are longer than 7,000 yards.

Check out the full list of 28 golf courses from longest to shortest:

  1. Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Rabat, Morocco – 7,638 yards (Trophy Hassan II)
  2. Carnoustie Golf Links, Carnoustie, Scotland – 7,402 yards (Senior Open Championship)
  3. Greystone Golf & Country Club, Birmingham, Alabama – 7,249 yards (Regions Tradition)
  4. Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio – 7,248 yards (Kaulig Companies Championship)
  5. Prestonwood Country Club, Cary, North Carolina – 7,237 yards (SAS Championship)
  6. The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington – 7,217 yards (Boeing Classic)
  7. TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Georgia – 7,179 yards (Mitsubishi Electric Classic)
  8. Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California – 7,165 yards (The Galleri Classic)
  9. Hualalai Resort Golf Club, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – 7,107 yards (Mitsubishi Electric Championship)
  10. Pleasant Valley Country Club, Little Rock, Arkansas – 7,101 yards (Simmons Bank Championship)
  11. Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club, Calgary, Alberta, Canada – 7,086 yards (Rogers Charity Classic)
  12. Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club, Grand Blanc, Michigan – 7,085 yards (The Ally Challenge)
  13. University Ridge Golf Course, Madison, Wisconsin – 7,083 yards (American Family Insurance Championship)
  14. Timuquana Country Club, Jacksonville – 7,005 yards (Constellation Furyk & Friends)
  15. The Woodlands Country Club, The Woodlands, Texas – 7,002 yards (Insperity Invitational)
  16. Newport Country Club, Newport, Rhode Island – 7,024 yards (U.S. Senior Open Championship)
  17. The Country Club of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia – 7,025 yards (Dominion Energy Charity Classic)
  18. En-Joie Golf Course, Endicott, New York – 6,994 yards (Dick’s Sporting Goods Open)
  19. Norwood Hills Country Club, St. Louis – 6,992 yards (Ascension Charity Classic)
  20. Tiburon Golf Club, Naples, Florida – 6,909 yards (Chubb Classic)
  21. Phoenix Country Club, Phoenix – 6,860 yards (Charles Schwab Cup Championship)
  22. Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Pebble Beach, California – 6,858 yards (Pure Insurance Championship)
  23. La Paloma Country Club, Tucson, Arizona – 6,856 yards (Cologuard Classic)
  24. Harbor Shores Resort, Benton Harbor, Michigan – 6,852 yards (KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship)
  25. Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa – 6,835 yards (Principal Charity Classic)
  26. Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, California – 6,821 yards (Hoag Classic)
  27. Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, South Dakota – 6,747 yards (Sanford International)
  28. Las Colinas Country Club, Irving, Texas – 6,703 yards (Invited Celebrity Classic)

Ernie Els wins Hoag Classic; Bernhard Langer denied record PGA Tour Champions victory

Bernhard Langer falls short of winning for 46th time on senior circuit.

Thanks to a late-round putting-grip change, Ernie Els is a winner on the PGA Tour Champions for the first time in three years.

Meanwhile, Bernhard Langer’s record-setting victory is going to have to wait at least another week.

Els rode a 65-65 weekend to win the Hoag Classic at Newport Country Club in Newport Beach, California, on Sunday. He birdied Nos. 2, 3, and 4 to get things going, then birdied the seventh. After eight straight pars, he birdied the 16th to get to 12 under. He found himself in a bunker on 18 but got up-and-down, draining one final birdie to get to 13 under. Els went to a left-hand low grip on his last two birdie putts.

Steve Stricker and Doug Barron tied for second at 12 under. Barron started the day one shot back of the lead and needed a birdie at the last to get to 13 under. With Els hitting 7-irons on the range to stay loose, Barron stuffed his approach but then missed a four-footer for birdie that would have forced a playoff.

Els is the fifth different winner in five Champions tournaments in 2023.

Langer, who was at 12 under after 36 holes and held the solo lead after two days, built a two-shot lead Sunday but bogeys at Nos. 6, 9 and 14 did him in as he never really got anything going in the final round. A birdie on 11 was negated by his fourth bogey on 14. He then missed a short putt on 17 for his fifth bogey of the day before a closing par for a 73.

Langer won for a record-tying 45th time on the Champions tour a month ago. His next victory will break the record held by Hale Irwin since 2007. Langer’s first senior win came 10 months after Irwin’s last.

The PGA Tour Champions returns to action next week at the new Galleri Classic in Rancho Mirage, California, on the Mission Hills Country Club course that was home to an LPGA major for 51 years.

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