It is consistently ranked as one of the toughest top ten finishing holes on the PGA Tour. The eighteenth hole replicates the eighteenth hole at Doral’s Blue Monster course in Florida. It is known for it’s fairway hazards and the third hole boasts the famous church pew bunkers. Seven US Men’s Opens, four US Amateurs, three PGA’s and one Women’s US Open have been played there. This course was established in 1903 and has played host to more major championships than any other course in America. The fourteenth hole replicates the third hole at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania. According to Nicklaus, the fourteenth hole is possibly the toughest par five ever played in the US Open. Jack Nicklaus was the last player to win both the Amateur and the Open on the same course. Pebble Beach has hosted four US Opens, four US Amateurs and one PGA Championship. The thirteenth hole replicated the fourteenth hole at Pebble Beach in California. No donating to the golf gods in the lake : ) We both hit great tee shots and made pars on this hole. TPC Sawgrass is in Florida and was designed by Pete Dye. The Players Championship is considered the fifth major. Golf Magazine’s international panel ranks TPC at Sawgrass among the 100 greatest courses in the world. John Mahaffey called it the easiest par five on the course. The stroke average for the day was 3.79, the highest over par ever recorded for a hole on the PGA tour.
In the opening round of the 1992 Players Championship, 64 balls were hit into the water. The ninth hole replicates the seventeenth hole at TPC Sawgrass – this is the short par three across the water to an island green. This includes the blooming azaleas, cobblestone bridges and a white Masters scoreboard with the latest-played Masters leaders updated on it. They have also replicated Amen Corner from Augusta on holes five to seven. We took the conservative approach and layed up : ) This Donald Ross designed hole will tempt the longer hitters but a more conservative player will lay up with a short iron. This hole is considered by many to be one of the greatest short par four’s in all of golf. The third hole replicated the third hole at Pinehurst Number 2. In the 1999 Bay Hill Invitational John Daly carded an 18 on this hole. During practice rounds for the Bay Hill Invitational, John daly and Greg Norman used to try and carry the lake and drive the green. From the tips it is a 543 yard or 480 metre carry across a lake. He considered the sixth hole to be the finest hole on the course “it lets you bite off as much as you care to chance” he said. The late Arnold Palmer loved this course so much he purchased it in 1976. The second hole replicated the sixth hole at Bay Hill Golf Club. Each hole has a sign with some information about the hole and a disclaimer at the bottom per the judge’s ruling : ) The original owners sold the course to Arnold Palmer Golf Management in 1999. A US district judge ruled Tour 18 could keep its replica holes as long as the course made it clear they were replicas and that the original courses were not associated with the new one. Three courses – Pebble Beach, Pinehurst and Harbour Town – sued Tour 18 for replicating their holes, but all the lawsuits brought more publicity for the innovative course. everyone wanted to play a round including celebrities like OJ Simpson, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Before the course even opened, tee times were booked for almost the entire first year. The course’s early years were filled with litigation and seemingly endless rounds of golf. The course opened in 1992 and along with the same concept in Dallas these were the first replica golf courses in America. Steve had found this golf course on the internet called Tour 18 where they have reproduced the most renowned holes in the history of golf.
Doris our GPS did well although we missed a couple of off ramps due to road works etc… Of course everyone knows where they are going and they all fly along at a swift pace.
This worked out really well in the end although it was incredibly daunting driving there – the freeways are huge with ramps going all over the place. Originally we weren’t going to hire a car but once we worked out that Houston is huge, the public transport was non existent and it was going to be expensive to get taxis we hired a car. We had only ever transited through the airport here so it was a good chance to check it out. This was where we were flying home to NZ from so we thought we would have a couple of days golfing and shopping before making our way home. After 9 nights in Mexico we flew back to Houston, Texas in the US.
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