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The golf course that Pete Dye built for the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra Beach in 1980 was a different animal than the course we see today. No good shot, it seemed, went unpunished. The professionals howled. After two years of exasperation, The Players succumbed to the players’ complaints and the TPC was modified, beginning a long journey to the much more predictable and pristinely presented Stadium Course.
It made us wonder what kind of course would be developed in 2026 if the entire experiment were run back, but with the contemporary professional game of 330-yard drives and 210-yard 7-irons in mind. That is, what would a modern championship course designed to thoroughly test today’s best players look like?
We asked leading course architects, revealing how the game has evolved in the last 46 years.
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