Wanna play the seventeenth at TPC Sawgras? Pony up!
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The Gamers Championship has the richest individual purse of any event in skilled golf and its host venue is inching towards having the richest tee time in golf, too.
Whereas trade chief Shadow Creek in Las Vegas lately upped its green fee to a staggering $1,250 from an already wallet-crushing $1,000, TPC Sawgrass, host website of the PGA Tour’s signature occasion and residential to its company headquarters, is following swimsuit.
After topping out final winter at $840 per golfer throughout its peak season, a examine of the Stadium Course’s reserving website reveals the height charge is now $900 for a morning tee time on the famed Pete Dye monitor.
Whereas the course lists beginning charges of $650 per individual throughout the September to Might peak season, a fast examine of the reserving device reveals scant availability, aside from just a few scattered tee occasions in November. In truth, as of this writing, one of many few respites from the $900 tee time is a beneficiant $112 low cost for 2 occasions (9:10 a.m. and 9:40 a.m.) on Thanksgiving morning at $788 for one to a few golfers.
These charges embrace your inexperienced payment, cart payment, forecaddie base charge and a bag of balls on the observe vary. Gratuity for the forecaddie is on you, and we suggest being beneficiant, as your looper can be tasked with guiding you thru one of many hardest and most treacherous assessments in golf. The course suggests a tip of $40.
For these wishing to hoof it, you may improve to a strolling caddie, which is a further $125 per individual for a single caddie or $85 per bag for a caddie to double bag. Once more these aren’t inclusive of gratuity, which the course recommends $50 per bag.
The most expensive tee time in golf is about to skyrocket in price
And if you wish to go all-out, you may splurge on the Tour Participant Expertise which features a two-night keep on the Sawgrass Marriott, one spherical every on the Stadium Course and Dye’s Valley Course, a strolling caddie, participant locker-room entry, meals and extra swag. That may run you $2,554 a head and is now not provided with out the in a single day keep and second spherical on the Valley course.
Low season charges from June to August begin at simply $450. All of those charges blow away these of Dye’s Valley course which begin at $300 throughout peak season and $175 throughout the summer season.
Not the whole lot on the course will price you an arm and a leg, nonetheless. The restaurant and golf store are each open to the general public and it’s also possible to get a complimentary tour of the clubhouse and seventeenth gap from considered one of TPC Sawgrass’ “Storytellers.” The excursions begin hourly from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This isn’t the largest value enhance for the Gamers Championship host, which options maybe the most famous hole in golf with the island inexperienced, par-3 seventeenth. For winter 2022, greens fees skyrocketed $120 from the earlier peak charge of $720.
If you happen to’re planning on visiting, take note the course is presently closed till November fifth and in addition closes for a few month within the lead as much as the Gamers. In 2024, the course shuts down on Feb, 19 and reopens March 19, after the event.
