WILL PGA WEST BE ANOTHER CHAMBER’S BAY?

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By admin May 19, 2015 21:38

 

In this Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, the 16th hole of the Chambers Bay golf course is shown as a freight train passes at left in University Place, Wash. Next week the course, which opened in 2007, will become the youngest golf course to host the U.S. Open since Hazeltine in 1970. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

In this April 29, 2015, photo, pavilions that will be used during the U.S. Open Championship stand at the Chambers Bay golf course in University Place, Wash. Next week the course, which opened in 2007, will become the youngest golf course to host the U.S. Open since Hazeltine in 1970. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

CHAMBERS BAY

TPC Stadium Course Hole 17.1

PGA WEST

Will PGA Tour Pros Rebel Again?

FORMERLY THE BOB HOPE CLASSIC (NOW THE CAREERBUILDER CHALLENGE) ANNOUNCES TOURNAMENT COURSES FOR 2016

The TPC Stadium Course, annually recognized as one of the top golf courses in the United States, and its PGA WEST sister course – the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course – will serve as two of the three courses for the 2016 CareerBuilder Challenge.

The two PGA WEST courses will join long-time tournament mainstay La Quinta Country Club, continuing the event’s recent tradition of being played solely within the city of La Quinta. The 2016 tournament, the first with CareerBuilder as title sponsor, will be held during the week of Jan. 18 with official rounds scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 24.

What’s interesting is when the Stadium Course was a host course several years ago, a large number of PGA Tour pros rebelled feeling the course offered too many unfair bounces, twists and turns and vowed they wouldn’t play in next year’s tournament if the Stadium Course continued to be a host course. Sure enough, the following year, the Stadium Course was not a host course.

 

Will there be some kind of rebellion again? We’ll have to wait and see. What you can be sure of is course designer Pete Dye is laughing his ass off because he loves to make Tour pros squirm.

 

 

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By admin May 19, 2015 21:38