TPC Sawgrass - The Stadium Course

• 🏆America's 100 Greatest #41 — Golf Digest
• 🏆America's 100 Greatest Public Courses #8 — Golf Digest
• 🏆The Players Championship Host (since 1982) — PGA Tour

Pete and Alice Dye opened the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in 1980 as the first golf course built explicitly with on-site fan experience in mind — terraced spectator mounds, sight lines from corner to corner, and the design philosophy that 'every spectator should see at least three holes from any vantage.' Alice suggested the island-green concept on the par-3 17th; Pete went ahead with it. That hole alone is now the most recognizable single hole in American golf. Golf Digest currently ranks the Stadium #41 on the 100 Greatest (peak of #25 in 1985-86) and #8 on America's 100 Greatest Public for 2025-26. The Players Championship — the PGA Tour's flagship event with the largest non-major purse — has called the Stadium home every year since 1982. Premium peak pricing puts it in the $$$$ luxury tier; March pricing during Players week is the highest of the year, with $700+ rates not unusual.