Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
TPC Sawgrass
Deane Beman wanted a tournament home owned by the PGA TOUR. After an unsuccessful effort to buy Sawgrass Country Club, the Fletcher family sold the TOUR 415 acres of wetlands for one dollar.1
- Location
- Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
- Courses
- 2 courses
- Club website
- Visit website
A permanent home for the players
TPC Sawgrass opened in 1980 and first hosted THE PLAYERS in 1982. Jerry Pate won that inaugural championship on the new course.1
Courses
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Championships
Results and dates 4 editions
Senior Players Championship
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Mazda Senior Tournament Players Championship
Billy Casper
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Mazda Senior Tournament Players Championship
Orville Moody
The Players Championship
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Jerry Pate
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U.S. Amateur
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Tiger Woods
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Sources and editorial notes7 references
Sources for this story
- History TPC Sawgrass
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Club mark source
- Pete Dye Society: Course Catalog
- TPC Sawgrass
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1994 result row. Tiger Woods d. Trip Kuehne, 2 up. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PDF page 247, printed 5-29, 1989 entry: Mazda Senior Tournament Players Championship. Exact competitive-day boundaries remain unverified.
- PGA TOUR: official 1991 Senior PGA TOUR media guide PGA TOUR 1991 guide PDF page 193 explicitly locates the 1988–1989 editions at TPC Sawgrass (Valley). The owner identifies this as Dye’s Valley: tpc.com