TPC Sawgrass

Only familiar with the Stadium Course. I'll ask Pedersen if I see him the next few days about the other stuff.

Erial_Lion said:

Question for @MtNittany (or anyone else with input)...heading down to Ponta Vedra Beach in a few weeks. Playing Dye's Valley twice and the Stadium Course once. Assume you have experience with Dye's Valley...thoughts on it? I've read some that like it even better than the Stadium course, and others that think it's good but not great. Also, any bar/restaurant recommendations in that area? (staying at the Sawgrass Mariott, which gets mixed reviews)

Picked up my new clubs today, so need to get out a few times in the next few weeks before I fly down.

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Talked to Doug this AM about the Valley. He says top notch, don't pass up an opportunity to play it. I asked him about the name and whether it was sort of hilly, and he said "Flat as a pancake - No idea where the name came from."

He didn't have anything really to add on restaurants or nightlife.

Need a 4th?

Stadium course is very good. You will realize how precise you need to be with your irons on many of the holes to score well. The drive on 18 is very difficult. The 17th hole is so fun. You can guess which hole I played better.

Shep said:

Stadium course is very good. You will realize how precise you need to be with your irons on many of the holes to score well. The drive on 18 is very difficult. The 17th hole is so fun. You can guess which hole I played better.

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The drive on 18 is harder than the tee shot on 17. The way Alice...err Pete wanted it.

When I was a teacher, I had a student who was a very good golfer. His father owned a golf course and his uncle was a club pro down in Florida. As a sophomore in high school he went down to visit his uncle and they played TPC Sawgrass. He shot a -1.

A month or so later he played in a tournament at Toftrees. He was all excited because he knew I went to Penn State. Keep in mind that we lived near the coast in NC. He came back from the tournament and wouldn't tell me how he did, when usually it's the first thing he would talk about after a tournament. All he would say was that he wasn't prepared for all of the hills.