Take a gander at hole-by-hole maps provided by Puttview for the Northern Trust at Liberty National in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs.
Liberty National, site of this week’s Northern Trust as part of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, was designed by the team of Tom Kite and Bob Cupp and opened in 2006.
Liberty National has been home to the Northern Trust, formerly known as the Barclays, since 2009. Heath Slocum held off the group of Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker to win that first year.
After that first Tour event there, much of the course was reworked. Several greens were rebuilt, and many of the fairway landing areas were recontoured or widened to make them more playable. But one thing that hasn’t changed: the incredible views of New York and the Statue of Liberty.
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.
Study Puttview’s hole-by-hole guides to the Donald Ross layout in Greensboro, North Carolina, that was restored by Kris Spence in 2007.
Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the host site of the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship. Designed by legendary architect Donald Ross and opened in 1926, the layout was restored by Kris Spence Golf Design in 2007.
The layout features small, sharply contoured greens and rolling fairways. A creek meanders through the property and comes into play on several holes.
The private Sedgefield was one of the original host courses for the Greater Greensboro Open, won by Sam Snead eight times to set a PGA Tour record for most wins at one event – a record since tied twice by Tiger Woods (Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational). The tournament was renamed the Wyndham Championship in 2007 and moved back to Sedgefield in 2008.
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.
Kasumigaseki Country Club dates back nearly a century, but it was a Fazio renovation in 2016 that prepared the course for the Olympics.
Kasumigaseki Country Club and its East Course, host site for golf in this year’s Olympic Games, was founded in 1929 and renovated a few years later by British designer C.H. Alison before being closed during World War II. The U.S. Air Force took over the property following the war, and the East and a new West Course were re-established in the following years.
The East featured two greens on each hole for decades, with one green covered in a winter grass and the other in a grass that thrived during the warm summers.
All that changed with a 2016 renovation by American architect Tom Fazio and his son, Logan, who converted the private Kasumigaseki’s double greens into single greens. The Fazios also repositioned fairway bunkers to challenge modern professionals, and they reframed several holes in their existing corridors. The greens are now covered in bent grass, with zoysia in play on the rest of the course.
A 2017 aerial photo of Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, outside of Tokyo, Japan (Miyuki Saito/Kyodo News via AP)
The course will play 7,447 yards for the men July 29-August 1, and it will play 6,648 yards for the women August 4-7.
Kasumigaseki has been the host of several notable golf events, including several Japan Opens and various top amateur events. It hosted the 1957 Canada Cup, a precursor to the World Cup, and Hideki Matsuyama won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on Kasumigaseki’s West Course in 2010. Now the Masters champion, Matsuyama is a favorite in these Olympics.
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 will face this week and next. Check out each hole below (yardages will be adjusted for the women), and follow this link to the club’s website to see drone footage of each hole, with narration by Tom Fazio.
TPC Twin Cities should offer up plenty of birdies in this week’s PGA Tour event. Check out the hole-by-hole maps by Puttview.
TPC Twin Cities, site of this week’s 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota, was designed by Arnold Palmer in consultation with Tom Lehman and opened in 2000.
The private course was the site of the PGA Tour Champions’ 3M Championship from 2001 through 2018, at which time the course was renovated and the PGA Tour moved in for 2019. The course can be stretched to 7,513 yards and normally plays to a par of 72, but the pros play it as a par 71 for the 3M Open.
TPC Twin Cities should present a birdie fest this week. In the two years since the PGA Tour began playing the layout, the winning scores were 19 under (Michael Thompson in 2019) and 21 under (Matthew Wolff in 2020).
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 will face this week. Check out each hole below.
Large undulations and blind shots might drive players a bit mad at Royal St. George’s in the British Open. Check out the hole-by-hole maps.
Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, England, will host its 15th British Open this week, presenting the kind of wild, undulating and hopefully bouncy test that tends to drive some of the best players in the game a little crazy. That craziness is in part fueled by numerous blind shots as players must hoist balls into the sky over the dunes.
The club, on the coast of the English Channel about 80 miles southeast of London, has seen such varied and sometimes unexpected winners as Darren Clarke (2011), Ben Curtis (2003), Bill Rogers (1981) and Reg Whitcombe (1938), for example. But it hasn’t been all surprises, as Greg Norman won there in 1993 and Walter Haden triumphed there twice (1922 and ’28). The first Open held at Royal St. George’s was won by J.H. Taylor in 1894.
Royal St. George’s opened in 1887 with a Laidlaw Purves layout that has been renovated and restored several times, most recently by Martin Ebert, who has worked on several British Open layouts including Royal Portrush before the 2019 Open. Royal St. George’s ranks No. 9 on Golfweek’s Best list of top courses in Great Britain and Ireland.
The course will be set up at 7,189 yards with a par of 70 for this year’s Open.
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 will face this week. Check out each hole below.
Check out the hole-by-hole maps for TPC Deere Run, host of the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic.
TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, designed by longtime PGA Tour pro D.A. Weibring on rolling hills alongside Rock River and opened in 2000, is the annual host site of the Tour’s John Deere Classic.
The layout ranks No. 2 in Illinois on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for public-access layouts. The course was built on a 385-acre site that has been home to Native American settlements, farming, mining and most recently a horse and cattle breeding program.
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 will face this week. Check out each hole below.
The Detroit Golf Club hosts the PGA Tour this week with a combination of holes from its Donald Ross-designed North and South courses.
This week’s PGA Tour course is actually parts of two tracks, with the Detroit Golf Club’s North and South courses combining to form 18 holes for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
The tournament layout starts on No. 8 of the North Course, then plays No. 9 of the North. Players then tackle what is normally No. 1 of the South Course before teeing off on what is normally No. 2 of the North and playing the next five holes in order.
The back nine is the same as usual for the North, playing in order from No. 10 through 18. The combination course will play to a par of 72 at 7,334 yards for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
Both the North and the South were designed by legendary architect Donald Ross and opened in 1916. The North ranks as No. 14 in Michigan on Golfweek’s Best Private Courses list.
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 will face this week. Check out each hole below.
Several of the holes will play at different yardages than shown in the yardage maps. The tournament distance is noted in the captions below. The title for each hole first indicates its position in the order on the composite tournament course, and the front nine holes also indicate which hole and on which course it normally is played.
Take a detailed look at each hole for this year’s Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, courtesy of Puttview.
TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, site of this week’s Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour, has seen plenty of changes over the years.
The private club was born in 1928 as Middletown Golf Club, and it was renamed Edgewood Country Club in 1934. The PGA Tour took over the property in the 1980s, and Pete Dye redesigned a layout that reopened in 1984 renamed TPC of Connecticut.
Bobby Weed then took over, redesigning the course again for a 1989 reopening with another new name, TPC River Highlands. Weed again went to work in 2016, this time remodeling all the bunkers to update the strategic demands.
The site first hosted a PGA Tour event in 1952, a tournament won by Ted Kroll. Dustin Johnson won the 2020 event, holding off Kevin Streelman.
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 will face this week. Check out each hole below.
Puttview offers hole-by-hole details on the longtime site of the PGA Tour event in Texas.
Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, has been a regular stop on the PGA Tour since 1946, and this week the home course to Ben Hogan plays host to what has become the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Colonial opened in 1936 with a course designed by John Bredemus and Perry Maxwell. The layout is ranked No. 86 among Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses list for courses built before 1960 in the United States. It also ranks No. 4 among all private clubs in Texas.
Soon after this year’s tournament ends, the layout will receive a facelift by architect Gil Hanse, who plans to install new putting surfaces as well as work on most other major features of the layout.
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 will face this week. Check out each hole below.
Take a look at the hole-by-hole maps provided by Puttview for this week’s PGA Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort.
Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Ocean Course takes its second turn as host of the PGA Championship this week, welcoming players and fans back to the South Carolina seaside just southeast of Charleston.
The Ocean Course was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 1991 after a somewhat frantic effort to complete construction before that year’s Ryder Cup, which the Americans won over the European team and that has become known as the “War by the Shore.”
Unlike most linksy courses, which play beneath and around the dunes, the Ocean was built atop the dunes at the suggestion of Dye’s wife, Alice. This provides fantastic views of the Atlantic but subjects the players in this week’s major championship to the full force of the coastal winds. Individual holes will play very differently this week depending on the weather.
The Ocean Course is part of the large and charming Kiawah Island Golf Resort, which is home to four other courses: Osprey Point by Tom Fazio, Oak Point by Clyde Johnston, Turtle Point by Jack Nicklaus and Cougar Point by Gary Player. And beside miles and miles of beaches, the resort is home to a five-star oceanfront hotel and luxurious villa rentals, several fun pool complexes, a marina, hiking trails and more, making it a top Lowcountry destination.
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.
