Puttview offers a hole-by-hole study of TPC Craig Ranch near Dallas, host of the PGA Tour’s AT&T Byron Nelson for the first time this week.
TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, will be in the spotlight this week as the host of the AT&T Byron Nelson, the first time the Tom Weiskopf-designed course will host the PGA Tour event.
The tournament had been held at Trinity Forest since 2018, not counting last year’s cancelation because of COVID-19 precautions. Before that, the event was held at TPC Four Seasons for 35 years.
The private TPC Craig Ranch opened in 2004 in a large golf community just north of Dallas. The layout is 7,438 yards long and plays to a par of 72. The course hosted what is now the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in 2008 and 2012.
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Thanks to a yardage book 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.
The site of this week’s PGA Tour Valspar Championship tests players with tree-lined and tight fairways, tall rough and challenging greens.
There’s a lot more to the Copperhead at Innisbrook Resort near Tampa, Florida, than a clever marketing moniker. Holes 16, 17 and 18 might be known as the Snake Pit – and we’ll all hear that term plenty of times on televised coverage this week – but each of the holes on this 7,340-yard layout can be a killer.
Narrow, tree-lined fairways. Tall rough. Surprisingly rolling terrain for the Sunshine State. Challenging greens. Call the finishing trio what you want, but the whole course is a great test for the PGA Tour players in this week’s Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida. Built in 1974 by Larry Packard and Jerry Pate, the Copperhead can require patience and precision as much as power. The course ranks No. 9 in Florida on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for public-access tracks.
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.
Pete Dye designed Harbour Town Golf Links in South Carolina, and it presents a unique variety of strategic challenges for PGA Tour Players.
One thing is for sure on the shore of Calibogue Sound: Harbour Town Golf Links is a different kinds of golf course, designed by a different kind of course architect.
Pete Dye was still kicking off his design career in 1969 when he laid out Harbour Town at Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, soon before the course hosted the first of what has become the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage. Fans surely will recognize the iconic red-and-white lighthouse just beyond the 18th green – that view of water, golf course and lighthouse is one of the most recognizable shots in televised golf each year.
What the cameras can’t capture adequately are the strategic demands of the first 16 holes that amble through a neighborhood and wooded areas. Tall trees block many shots, and it’s entirely possible to smack a tee shot into a fairway but have almost no standard shot toward the green. Pine branches dangle out from all angles on several holes, forcing players to think their way around the course. The Tour players this week better be ready to hit a mix of cuts, draws, high shots and low screamers to the relatively small greens.
A view of the lighthouse behind the 18th green at Harbour Town Golf Links (Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports)
Simply put, Harbour Town presents all the strategic challenges a player might expect from Dye (with input from a then-fledgling designer named Jack Nicklaus), just in a tighter package than at some of the famed designer’s other courses.
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.
