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Check the yardage book: Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes for the PNC Championship

Tiger Woods and 19 other pros will play with family members at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.

The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes – site of this week’s PNC Championship – was designed by Greg Norman and opened in 2003 less than 10 miles from Walt Disney World.

After pro-ams Thursday and Friday, 20 teams will compete in the tournament proper Saturday and Sunday. Originally named the Father-Son Challenge, the current format includes pro golfers partnered with either a parent or child. The main attraction will be the return of Tiger Woods to competitive golf as he pairs with son Charlie less than a year after a single-car crash in California left the 15-time major champion with significant injuries.

Grande Lakes will play at 7,122 yards with a par of 72 for the pros. Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: Albany for the Hero World Challenge

Ernie Els designed the course at Albany, which opened in 2010

Albany in New Providence, the Bahamas – site of this week’s Hero World Challenge – was designed by Ernie Els and opened in 2010. It is part of a 600-acre luxury resort community owned by a Tavistock group that includes Els, Tiger Woods, and Justin Timberlake.

Albany ties for No. 20 on the 2021 list of Golfweek’s Best Courses in Mexico, the Caribbean, the Atlantic islands, and Central America. It will play at 7,302 yards with a par of 72 for the Hero World Challenge.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: Sea Island’s Seaside Course for the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic

Puttview’s hole-by-hole maps of Sea Island’s Seaside Course provide a peek at the challenges PGA Tour players face this week in Georgia.

Sea Island’s Seaside Course, site of this week’s RSM Classic on the PGA Tour, originally was laid out by famed designers Harry S. Colt and Charles Alison in 1929 and was redesigned by Tom Fazio in 1999.

The event also will be played on the resort’s Plantation Course, which was renovated by Davis Love III in 2019. The first two rounds will be split between the courses, with the final two rounds after the cut being played on Seaside.

The Seaside ranks as the No. 1 public-access layout in Georgia on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for 2021, while the Plantation is No. 13 on that list. The Seaside also is No. 84 on Golfweek’s Best list of all modern courses built in or after 1960 in the U.S., with the Fazio renovation moving the layout from the ranks of classic courses built before 1960.

The Seaside will play to 7,005 yards with a par of 70 for the RSM Classic, while the Plantation will play to 7,060 yards with a par of 72.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week on the Seaside Course. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: Memorial Park for the PGA Tour’s Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open

See the hole maps for the site of the PGA Tour’s Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open, where Tom Doak recently completed a renovation.

Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, site of this week’s Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open on the PGA Tour, was recently renovated by architect Tom Doak. The municipal course ranks No. 20 on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list in Texas.

The original John Bredemus layout opened in 1936 and hosted the PGA Tour at various times in the 1940s through the 1960s, but it had become overgrown and shaggy while hosting 60,000 rounds a year. Doak in 2019 completed his $34-million renovation funded through a foundation headed by Houston Astros’ owner Jim Crane, and the Tour returned in 2020.

The course will be set up at 7,412 yards with a par of 70 for this week’s event. It normally tops out at 7,292 yards with a par of 72.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: El Camaleon for the PGA Tour’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba

Puttview provides our hole-by-hole maps for the host site of the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba on the PGA Tour.

El Camaleon Golf Club, site of this week’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba on the PGA Tour, was designed by Greg Norman and opened in 2004 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. In 2007 it became the first course in Mexico to host a PGA Tour event.

Located about an hour’s drive south of Cancun, the course plays through jungle, thick mangroves and alongside the oceanfront. The paspalum layout ranks No. 18 on Golfweek’s Best course-ranking list for Mexico, the Caribbean, the Atlantic islands and Central America. It will play to 7,039 yards with a par of 71 for this week’s Tour event.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: Port Royal for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Puttview offers hole-by-hole maps of the Robert Trent Jones Sr. course in Bermuda, site of this week’s PGA Tour event.

Port Royal Golf course in Southampton, Bermuda – site of this week’s Butterfield Bahamas Championship on the PGA Tour – was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and opened in 1970. Roger Rulewich completed a renovation of the course a little more than a decade ago.

With several holes alongside the Atlantic Ocean, the public-access layout will play to 6,828 yards with a par of 71.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: TPC Summerlin for the Shriners Children’s Open

Check out Puttview’s hole-by-hole maps of the Bobby Weed design in Las Vegas.

TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, site of this week’s Shriners Children’s Open on the PGA Tour, was designed by architect Bobby Weed with input from Fuzzy Zoeller and opened in 1991.

A desert course playing through arroyos and canyons, TPC Summerlin will play to 7,243 yards with a par of 72. The course ranks No. 4 on Golfweek’s Best list of private courses in Nevada.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: Country Club of Jackson for Sanderson Farms Championship

Puttview provides an insider view with hole-by-hole maps of the Mississippi layout that hosts the PGA Tour this week.

The Country Club of Jackson, site of this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship on the PGA Tour, originally was designed by Dick Wilson and opened in 1964. John Fought updated the layout in 2008.

The club has three nine-hole layouts in all, with the Dogwood (front) and Azalea (back) nines making up the championship course for the Tour players. The combined layout ranks No. 3 in Mississippi on Golfweek’s Best list of private courses. The course will play to 7,461 yards with a par of 72 for the Sanderson Farms Championship.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out each hole below.

Check the yardage book: Whistling Straits for the Ryder Cup

Pete Dye’s masterpiece on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin should provide a sturdy test in the Ryder Cup.

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You want options? Pete Dye gives a player plenty of them at Whistling Straits’ Straits Course in Wisconsin, and U.S. Captain Steve Stricker will be able to take advantage of them when it comes to hole length for this week’s Ryder Cup.

The Straits features multiple tee boxes on every hole, and the host captain has the right to choose from which box players will tee off for each round. It’s likely Stricker will adjust the holes based on wind direction off Lake Michigan and the status of the matches, as well as which players he might send out for any session.

In all, the Straits will be listed at 7,390 yards with a par of 71 for the Ryder Cup. The layout normally plays to a par of 72, but No. 11 will play as a par 4 this week instead of its normal par 5.

The Straits is ranked No. 1 among Wisconsin’s public-access layouts on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list and is No. 8 on Golfweek’s Best list for all modern courses built in or after 1960 in the U.S.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out each hole below.

Each hole includes a note on the listed yardage at which the hole will play for the Ryder Cup, plus a link to Golfweek’s exclusive drone photography with hole details provided by Mike O’Reilly, the golf operations manager at Whistling Straits.

Check the yardage book: Caves Valley for the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship

Check hole-by-hole maps for the Tom Fazio design that has been host of a U.S. Senior Open, the U.S. Mid-Amateur and two NCAA Championships.

Caves Valley Golf Club, site this week of the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship as the second FedEx Cup Playoffs event, was designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1991.

Just north of Baltimore in Owings Mills, Maryland, Caves Valley was recently updated – length was added, bunkers were renovated and the nines were flipped to promote better spectator views on the closing holes. It will play 7,542 yards at a par of 72 for the BMW.

Caves Valley ranks No. 4 in Maryland on Golfweek’s Best Private Courses list and is tied for No. 178 on Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses list for all layouts built in or after 1960 in the U.S.

The Baltimore area hasn’t been host to a PGA Tour event in decades, but Caves Valley does have a championship track record. Jerry Courville Jr. won the 1995 U.S. Mid-Amateur there, and in 2002 Don Pooley beat Tom Watson in a five-hole playoff there to win the U.S. Senior Open. Caves Valley also was host to the 2005 NCAA Men’s Championship won by Georgia and the 2009 NCAA Women’s Championship won by Arizona State.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out each hole below.