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Check the yardage book: Champion Trace at Keene Trace GC for the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship

StrackaLine offers hole-by-hole maps of Champion Trace, host course for the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship in Kentucky.

The Champion Trace course at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky – site of this week’s Barbasol Championship on the PGA Tour – was designed by Arthur Hills and opened in 1987.

Not far from Lexington, the private layout meanders through rolling hills. It will play to 7,328 yards with a par of 72 for the Barbasol Championship. The event has been played on the Champion Trace layout since 2015.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: TPC River Highlands for the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship

StrackaLine provides hole-by-hole maps of the site of this week’s PGA Tour event.

TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut – site of this week’s Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour – has been reworked many times since its founding in 1928, most recently by architect Bobby Weed.

Founded as Middletown Golf Club in 1928, it became Edgewood Country Club in 1934. The PGA Tour took over the property in the 1980s, and Pete Dye redesigned a layout that reopened in 1982 as TPC of Connecticut.

Bobby Weed then redesigned it as TPC River Highlands in 1989, and he worked on the course again in 2016 to remodel the bunkers and update the strategic demands.

Short by modern Tour standards, TPC River Highlands will play to 6,841 yards with a par of 70 this week.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: The Country Club Composite Course for the 2022 U.S. Open

See StrackaLine’s maps of the classic layout near Boston with holes from two courses that create a stern test of tiny greens, deep rough.

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The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts – site of this week’s 122nd U.S. Open – opened in 1893 as a three-hole layout. Willie Campbell, a Scot and head professional at the club, extended the course to nine holes and then to 18 in 1899.

Several designers have worked on The Country Club over the decades, most recently Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner before the 2013 U.S. Amateur.

The layout used for the U.S. Open – which features small greens and thick rough among its considerable challenges – is actually a composite of two courses, the Main course and the club’s Primrose nine. Three holes of the Primrose (No. 9 Primrose playing as No. 9 of the Composite, a combo of Nos. 1 and 2 Primrose playing as No. 13 on the Composite, and No. 8 Primrose playing as No. 14 of the Composite) will be used for the national championship.

The Composite ranks No. 1 on Golfweek’s Best 2022 list of top private courses in the state, and it is No. 24 among all classic courses built in the U.S. before 1960. It will play to 7,264 yards with a par of 70 for the Open.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

Check the yardage book: St. George’s Golf & Country Club for 2022 RBC Canadian Open

Take a peek at the StrackaLine yardage book for this week’s PGA Tour stop.

St. George’s Golf & Country Club in Etobicoke, Canada – site of the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open – was designed by legendary Canadian golf architect Stanley Thompson and opened in 1930 not far from Toronto.

St. George’s ranks No. 2 on Golfweek’s Best ranking of classic courses built before 1960 in Canada. The club has worked with architect Ian Andrew since 2013 to restore the course. The course will play to 7,014 yards with a par of 70 for the 2022 RBC Canadian Open. 

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below. 

Check the yardage book: Colonial Country Club for the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge

Check out StrackaLine’s hole-by-hole maps of the longtime home course for Ben Hogan.

Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas – site of this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge on the PGA Tour ­– was designed by John Bredemus and Perry Maxwell and opened in 1936. The layout has been home to a PGA Tour event since 1946 and was Ben Hogan’s home course.

Colonial ties for No. 85 on the 2022 Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses list for layouts built before 1960 in the U.S. It also ranks No. 4 among the best private clubs in Texas.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of 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: Southern Hills for the 2022 PGA Championship

Take a closer look at this week’s major championship host thanks to StrackaLine’s hole-by-hole maps.

TULSA, Okla. – Southern Hills Country Club, site of this week’s PGA Championship for a fifth time, was designed by Perry Maxwell and opened in 1936.

The course has been renovated multiple times by the likes of Robert Trent Jones and Keith Foster, and in 2019 Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner wrapped up work on a restoration that put much of Maxwell’s original intent back into the layout.

Southern Hills has been host to a slew of championships ranging from the U.S. Women’s Open to the Senior PGA Championship and counts among its men’s majors four past PGA Championships (1970, ’82, ’94 and ’07) and three U.S. Opens (’58, ’77 and ’01).

The layout is No. 1 among private courses in Oklahoma in Golfweek’s Best rankings, and it is No. 38 on Golfweek’s Best list of classic courses built before 1960 in the U.S.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of 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: Austin Country Club for the PGA Tour’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play

See StrackaLine’s hole-by-hole maps of the layout designed by Pete Dye alongside the Colorado River in Texas.

Austin Country Club’s current course in Texas, host site of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 1984.

Built on the shores of the Colorado River, it has been the host site of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play since 2016. Austin Country Club was founded in 1899, but the club moved from one course to another before Dye built the club its third course.

The current course ties for No. 5 in Texas on Golfweek’s Best list of private clubs. It also ties for No. 88 on Golfweek’s Best list of modern courses built in or after 1960 in the U.S.

Austin Country Club will play to 7,108 yards with a par of 71 on the scorecard for the Match Play.

One of the most interesting holes on the course each year is the short, drivable par-4 13th. Listed at 317 yards from the back tees but playing shorter for players who take on the challenge, the hole gives Tour pros the chance to drive the green, which is all carry over water. Or players can lay up with a mid-iron to the fairway, leaving a wedge into the green. The risky option can be incredibly tempting to these players who have plenty of length to aim at the tiny target from the tee.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of 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: Innisbrook Copperhead for the Valspar Championship

Check out hole-by-hole maps of the Larry Packard layout that has been the site of the PGA Tour event since 2000.

Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Florida – site of the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship – was designed by Larry Packard and opened in 1970.

Host site of the Valspar Championship since 2000, Copperhead ranks No. 9 in Florida on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for public-access layouts. It also ties for No. 88 on Golfweek’s Best ranking of top resort courses in the United States.

Copperhead will play to 7,340 yards with a par of 71 for the Valspar Championship.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.

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Five things to know: No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass for the Players Championship

Did Pete Dye dream up this hole? How many players hit the water? Who made the last ace on No. 17?

How hard can it be? It’s just a wedge, maybe a 9-iron, for the best players in the world, right?

Factor in wind, water, nerves and a giant gallery, and No. 17 at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass is so much more than the yardage on the scorecard might indicate. With its green perched atop wooden bulkheads above a lake, No. 17 is one of – if not the – most famous holes in golf.

While PGA Tour pros normally would tear apart such a short hole, the scoring average on No. 17 during the 2021 Players Championship was 3.23, almost a quarter shot over par, to make it the third-toughest hole versus par on the course that year.

See the full StrackaLine yardage book for TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course here.

So what gives? If you’ve been fortunate enough to play the course – ranked No. 1 in Florida on Golfweek’s Best list of public-access courses – then you already know. If you haven’t played it, you owe it to yourself.

Here are five things to know about course architect Pete Dye’s most iconic hole – if you can give credit to that famous designer after all.

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Check the yardage book: TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course for the 2022 Players Championship

How long is the famed No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass? See that and all the rest of the holes for the Players Championship.

The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, site of this week’s Players Championship on the PGA Tour, was designed by Pete Dye – with help from his wife, Alice, most noticeably on the famed island-green, par-3 17th. It opened in 1980 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and has been home to the Tour’s flagship tournament since 1982.

The Players Stadium Course ranks No. 1 in Florida on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for public-access layouts. It also ties for No. 12 on Golfweek’s Best list for all public-access courses in the U.S., and it ties for No. 21 on Golfweek’s Best list of all modern courses opened in or after 1960 in the U.S.

The course will play to 7,256 yards with a par of 72 for the Players Championship.

Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.