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Indiana Section PGA Policies and Procedures

General rules and regulation.

• USGA Rules shall govern all play except where modified by local rules.

Specific tournament rules will vary from event to event. All contestants in Indiana PGA events will receive a rules of play sheet.

No tournament shall be held at any golf club or course unless the head golf professional is a PGA Member (Class A) or registered apprentice.

All decisions shall be made by the Tournament Committee, whose decision is final.

The Indiana Section PGA reserves the right to accept or reject entries at any time for any reason.

Policy on Refunds

A player is entitled to a refund of the entry fee less a $10 service charge when withdrawal from an event is made prior to the tournament deadline date. Anyone wishing a refund when withdrawing after the tournament deadline must make a written request to the Tournament Director.. Those requests will be reviewed on a case by case basis.

Same Purse/Separate Tee Policy

Although competing from separate tees, men and women professionals will compete for the same purse in The Professional Championship, Senior Professional Championship,Assistant’s Championship,Club Car Stroke Play Championships & all Team events.  The tees will be set at approx. 85% of Regular Tees.

There will also be Senior Tees for all Team Championships.  Those tees are set at approximately 92% of the Championship Tees.

Policy on Conduct

The following actions are regarded as violating the Player Code of Conduct and will not be tolerated. Any violation witnessed by or reported to the IGA-PGA staff will be brought to the attention of the PGA Tournament Committee and / or the PGA Board of Directors who will determine the penalty to be imposed. The penalty will be determined by the offense, but might include fines and / or suspensions..

• Consumption of alcoholic beverages during Championship Rounds excluding the following events: Las Vegas Pro Am, Indiana Section PGA Sanctioned Pro Ams, PGA Pro-Am, PGA Fall Pro-Am, Four Man Team Championship,Pro Lady Championship, Pro-Assistant, PGA Team, PGA Mixed Four Ball, PGA Junior/Senior, & PGA Father/Son.
• Club throwing / club breaking
• Damage to or littering the property of the course or the IGA-PGA.
• Blatant profanity or any profanity directed at the rules officials, other competitors, spectators, sponsors, staff, volunteers or others.
• Any other conduct deemed by the Tournament Director to be disrespectful to other competitors, the club or tournament staff.
• Practice round violation.  It is recommended that players not hit more than 1 ball to the green. Please be courteous to the property of the host club and do not use the fairway as a range.

No Show Policy

All competitors are required to notify the Tournament Director  of their withdrawal from a tournament prior to the event. If it is necessary to withdrawal after 5:00 PM of the day before the tournament, competitors are asked to notify the golf course as well. 

Pace of Play Policy

The Indiana PGA tournament staff will be utilizing a two/four checkpoint system to monitor and apply penalties for slow play. The complete details will be posted at each tournament.

Cell Phone Policy

Cell phones may be used to check inclement weather.  Cell phone applications used as distance measuring devices may also be used now as long as they measure distance only – not slope, gravity, wind speed etc.

Policy on Golf Carts/Caddies

The “one seat” policy will be in effect for all events.  Either the player OR the caddie will be allowed to ride in or move a golf cart, but not at the same time.  The player and the caddie are not allowed to ride in the same cart or separate carts at the same time.

Policy on Dress

All participants in Indiana PGA events may wear slacks or shorts that constitute appropriate golf apparel (Cut offs, sweat pants, and gym shorts are not acceptable). All male participants must wear slacks at the Professional Championship, Senior Professional Championship, and the Assitant’s Championship.  Female participants in Indiana PGA events may wear skorts, or golf shorts that constitute acceptable clothing worn by women in connection with participation in professional golf tournaments. All participants are required to present a neat appearance, appropriate to a professional golf tournament in clothing and grooming. Jeans and t-shirts are not acceptable . Anyone not conforming to this policy will not be allowed to play.

Amateurs participating in Indiana PGA events may wear slacks or shorts that constitute appropriate golf apparel (Cut offs, sweat pants, and gym shorts are not acceptable) . 

Caddies are expected to be neat in appearance with respect to clothing and personal grooming. Shirts with collars are recommended., Tank tops, tee shirts, cut-offs, gym clothes and jeans are examples of attire that does not meet this requirement. Shorts of an appropriate length are acceptable. The official in charge of the event shall decide whether this requirement has been met.

Policy on Card Playing

It is felt that card playing is a matter of individual responsibility and its propriety may vary from club to club. In general the Tournament Committee frowns on card playing at the site of any competition and feels that abusing a privilege such as this can injure the Association and cause embarrassment to the host golf professional. For this reason, card playing by groups of golf professionals on the premises of a tournament site shall only be allowed when authorized by the host golf professional. Warnings shall be given to those who abuse this policy and if the warning goes unheeded, violators shall be subject to disciplinary action.

Policy on Gambling

Amateurs participating in Indiana PGA events may wear slacks or shorts that constitute appropriate golf apparel (Cut offs, sweat pants, and gym shorts are not acceptable) .

Appeals for Policy Infractions

Sanction/conflicting events.

Championship events conducted by the Indiana Section PGA are sanctioned by the Section. During the play of an Indiana Section PGA event, at a given club or course, another tournament not scheduled or sanctioned by the Section, where prize money or compensation is awarded to the golf professional, may not be participated in nor hosted by Indiana PGA Members, Approved Players, or Associate Head Professionals unless such non-Indiana PGA Section event is being played outside the established boundaries of the Section.

Special permission permitting play in or hosting a conflicting event may be granted only at the discretion of the Indiana Section PGA Tournament Committee. Requests must be submitted in writing to the Tournament Chairman at least 30 days prior to the date of conflict.

PGA Tour, USGA, National PGA, Indiana Golf Association events played opposite Indiana Section PGA events are not considered to be in conflict.

A player who participates in or hosts a conflicting event, without prior consent, will automatically be disciplined as follows:

• First Offense $200.00 fine.
• Second Offense $200.00 fine and suspension of playing privileges for one year from the date of the offense.
• Additional offenses, failure to pay fine or abide by the terms of the suspension will constitute a violation of the PGA Code of Ethics and therefore subject the offender to suspension from the PGA.

The BMW Championship Returns to Carmel

Writer / Janelle Morrison

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In just a few weeks, golf spectators will soon be lined up along the Crooked Stick Golf Club to watch the world’s top 70 playerThe BMW Championship is the penultimate event in the PGA TOUR’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. Players like Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Robert Garrigus will return to Carmel’s premiere golf course September 6-11. The Crooked Stick Golf Club hosted the BMW Championship in 2012.s play in the 2016 BMW Championship in Carmel.

Built in 1964 by the famous course architects Pete and Alice Dye, it was host to the PGA Championship in 1991 won by John Dalyand and the U.S. Women’s Open in 1993 won by Lauri Merten. It also hosted the Solheim Cup matches in 2005.

The BMW Championship is the third oldest, active tournament on the PGA Tour after the British Open and U.S. Open. It has been recognized as the PGA Tour’s “Tournament of the Year” in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015. The Western Golf Association (WGA) conducts the tournament. All

Tuesday Sept 15, 2015. @Charles Cherney Photography

proceeds from the BMW Championship support the Evans Scholars Foundation that provides full tuition and housing grants to deserving caddies.

The BMW Championship’s total purse is $8.5 million in prize money and $1.53 million to the winner. The defending player is Jason Day who won the 2015 Championship at Whistling Straits.

“As the winner of the 2015 BMW Championship, I am proud to have my name inscribed on the J.K. Wadley Trophy alongside golf legends Walter Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. This event not only celebrates the history of our golf sport, but it also does so much good for young people through its relationship with the Evans Scholar Foundation. I look forward to joining all of you in September at Crooked Stick for the 2016 BMW Championship.”

Also returning to Crooked Stick is Robert Garrigus. Garrigus finished T4 alongside Tiger Woods at the 2012 BMW Championship at Crooked Stick, among a top 10 leaderboard that included Rory McIlroy (1), Phil Mickelson (T2), Lee Westwood (T2), Tiger Woods (T4), Dustin Johnson (T6), Adam Scott (T6), Vijay Singh (8) and Jim Furyk (9). With rounds of 67-69-66-69, including a bogey-free 66 in the third round, Garrigus easily advanced to the FedEx Cup Playoffs finale, the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola, finishing T10 in Atlanta and ending the season a career-high 23rd in the FedEx Cup.

Although he missed the Playoffs last season, Garrigus is on his way to the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings (the top 125 qualify for the Playoffs following the final event of the regular season, the Wyndham Championship). He has finished in the top 10 in two of his last three starts, most recently with a T8 finish at last week’s Quicken Loans National. Two weeks earlier, he finished a season-best T4 at the AT&T Byron Nelson.

“I played really well the last time that I was at Crooked Stick,” Garrigus said. “I enjoyed the feel of the sand, playing on a lush course in the summertime and how excited and knowledgeable the members were about golf. My family and I have always enjoyed the Indianapolis and Carmel areas. I feel the most important thing that we (professional golfers) can do is help the youth and people who otherwise couldn’t go to college or play golf. We can help pave the way for them to do things that some of us (players) didn’t get to do.

Robert Garrigus current official PGA TOUR headshot (Photo by Stan Badz/PGA TOUR)

“My mom worked four jobs to put me through a community college, so I know how important it is to have a college education and how much work and sacrifice it takes to do it. To be able to support a foundation that assists caddies who don’t otherwise have the means to go to college is pretty cool.”

David Robinson, WGA Evans Scholar Foundation Chairman of the Board, spoke on the championship’s sole beneficiary and the WGA’s relationship with BMW.

“The Evans Scholar Foundation is the sole beneficiary of the BMW Championship. It is the nation’s largest privately-funded scholarship program and certainly the largest scholarship program for caddies,” Robinson said. “We’ve enjoyed a great relationship with BMW over the years. Since becoming our partner in 2007, the BMW Championship has helped raise $21 million for the Evans Scholar program. The synergy that we enjoy with BMW is fantastic.”

The Crooked Stick Tournament Co-chair Kent Frandsen described the renovations that the course underwent after hosting the 2012 championship to make it even more inviting and yes, even more challenging than the course already was for even the most accomplished golfer.

“Crooked Sticks members are thrilled to again partner with the WGA and host this year’s championship,” Robinson enthused. “We have made some significant investments at our course since 2012, some of which will present new challenges to the top 70 players of the world. After the success of the 2012 event, we knew that we would be interested in hosting this again. When we received the inquiry a couple of years ago from the WGA, we jumped at the opportunity.

“This will be the 10th national or international championship conducted at Crooked Stick since 1982. Our members have been extremely supportive of all of these competitions. We are pleased that we have already exceeded the level of corporate support this year that we experienced and enjoyed in 2012.

BETHESDA, MD – JUNE 26: Robert Garrigus plays a shot from the third tee during the third round of the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club on June 26, 2016 in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Matt Hazlett/Getty Images)

“The course improvements were started in 2014 and completed last year. They include renovating 90 bunkers with a new drain system to better deal with the heavy rains that always seem to follow the PGA Tour at the most inopportune times. We’ve added seven new bunkers along the 7th and 10th holes. The tee boxes on the 3rd, 10th and 13th holes have been reconstructed or added. There was also a major reconstruction and improvement of our practice areas including an expanded range, tee, new short-game area and new putting green near the first tee.

“The elevated putting green in front of the clubhouse has also been expanded. Crooked Stick worked directly with Mr. Pete Dye to make these updates, and we are excited to unveil them as part of the 2016 Championship.”

Hosting the championship takes a great deal of the local community’s resources. The tournament relies on approximately 2,000 volunteers throughout the installation and teardown of the event. The teardown takes nearly 45 days after the event has concluded.

Crooked Stick’s members are incredibly supportive and volunteer throughout the event. They also willingly sacrifice 10 days of playing on their immaculate course while the tournament is underway. The members and community’s support does not go unappreciated by the players or the WGA leadership and associates.

WGA Senior Vice President Vince Pellegrino elaborated on the WGA’s appreciation for the city, county and club’s support and use of their resources, so that the WGA can conduct a world-class golf championship.

“Our spectators and our corporate partners get to come out and watch some incredible golf, but at the end of the day, we can all feel great that the proceeds benefit the Evans Scholars. As an Evans Scholar myself, I couldn’t be more proud of the work that the organization is doing to support hardworking caddies.

“The community itself is so supportive, whether with volunteerism, ticket buyers or corporate hospitality. Everybody steps up and, in return, gets to see some of the best players in the game. It was a natural for us to want to come back here to Carmel and to Crooked Stick, one of the premiere courses in the country and Pete Dye’s masterpiece.” 

Top Golfers from each state: Indiana Golf and Fuzzy Zoeller

By kasey kuhrts | may 29, 2020.

Our next entry in the top golfer series brings us to Indiana and determining the best golfer from The Hoosier State was rather simple, and the honor goes to Fuzzy Zoeller.

If Fuzzy Zoeller would have been born just four miles south, he would have made our list representing a different state. Born in New Albany, Indiana, only the Ohio River lays between New Albany and Louisville, Kentucky.

Zoeller was another easy choice for his state, just like Ed Oliver was for Delaware. But unlike Delaware, Indiana has produced other professional golfers and multiple PGA Tour winners.

Bo Van Pelt , Mike Sullivan , and most recently Tyler Duncan have all won on the PGA Tour, but none of their careers have come close to the one of Zoeller’s. The only slight argument that can be made against Fuzzy is for Chick Evans.

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Chick Evans is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, and most notably won the 1916 U.S. Open as well as the 1916 and 1920 U.S. Amateur. Evans won 22 career events, however most of those events were amateurs. Zoeller has more career professional wins and majors, and he did it in a more modern era, which is why we felt Zoeller was the right choice.

What may be Fuzzy Zoeller’s biggest claim to fame was the second professional win of his career. In his first ever start in the event, Zoeller won the 1979 Masters in a playoff over Ed Sneed and Tom Watson . Zoeller is one of only three players ever to win the Masters in their first start.

At the end of the 1979 season, Zoeller was a member of the victorious 1979 Ryder Cup team, although he was only able to earn one point for the team. Zoeller would go on to be a member of the 1983 and 1985 Ryder Cup teams as well.

In 1984 Zoeller won his sixth PGA Tour event, and second major when he won the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. And just like his first major, it took a playoff to get it done. Zoeller beat Hall of Famer Greg Norman in an 18-hole playoff the following Monday to secure the major victory.

Fuzzy Zoeller would go on to win four more PGA Tour events in the next two years, but never won another PGA Tour event after 1986.

In 1985 Zoeller won the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the USGA, and is given for outstanding sportsmanship in the game of golf. However, just over 10 years later, Zoeller found himself in hot water after making comments about Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters that some found to be racist.

In 2002, as a member of the Champions Tour, Zoeller won the Senior PGA Championship, for his first win on the tour. Fuzzy would add another Champions Tour win in 2004 and played his last official event in 2017.

At the end of the day, Fuzzy Zoeller represented the Hoosier State better than anyone else in the history of the PGA Tour. Winning two majors, finishing top three or better in the other two as well as the Players Championship, being a part of two victorious, three total Ryder Cup teams, and a Senior PGA Champion.

Next. Best Golfers from Each State: Illinois Golf and Bill Mehlhorn. dark

Although there could be little debate, Fuzzy Zoeller is our selection as the best golfer from the Hoosier State.

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Travelers Championship hosts media day

CROMWELL, CT (WFSB) – Monday’s weather was a perfect precursor to golf in June and the Travelers Championship.

It was media day and Channel 3′s Marc Robbins was an eager member of the field.

The Travelers is excited about being a Signature Event on the PGA Tour.

A Signature Event means a bigger purse and more prestige for a tournament that’s already one of the most popular on tour.

“It’s gonna be of the premiere events on tour with one of the largest purses. What that translates to is another record-breaking year for charity,” said Nathan Grube, Tournament Director.

Media day is the unofficial start of the stretch run to the actual tournament.

Last year’s champ Keegan Bradley made an in-person appearance, the first for a champ since 2019. He was there because of a long-standing love of this event.

“The Travelers, this event they always make the right choice. If you want to do a study on how to run a tournament from microphone year until now is really impressive,” Bradley said.

A bigger purse, no cut. A bigger spotlight, all positives that set the success bar a little higher than in years past.

“Having the focus from our volunteers is who we are here’s the Travelers Championship it’s been fun to tell the story here’s who we are and the path we are on and people really respond well to it,” Grube said.

The first round of the Travelers Championship tees off on June 20.

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The PGA Championship tees off at Louisville's Valhalla Golf Club in May.

We'll have all the action live on WLKY and CBS.

To get you ready, we're showing you all 18 holes at Valhalla.

Our tour of the course started Sunday, April 28 and Kent Taylor will feature a new hole on air during every 11 p.m. show until Wednesday, May 15.

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Rory McIlroy sang Journey in New Orleans. He also won the golf tournament

NEW ORLEANS — Rory McIlroy is on the TPC Louisiana 19th green stage with a beer in one hand and a microphone in the other. He’s got Mardi Gras beads around his neck standing next to one of his best friends, Shane Lowry, and the drunken New Orleans crowd keeps chanting.

“Rory! Rory! Rory!”

“Do you know any songs from the 80s?” the bandleader asks.

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And then Journey starts playing.

The four-time major champ belted out “Don’t Stop Believing” early Sunday evening, tossing his head back to put his chest into the notes. Lowry just laughed and drank his beer watching his buddy make a fool of himself. As he walked off moments later, Lowry answered why he didn’t join — “I would have sung much better.”

McIlroy just won a golf tournament. And he needed to win a golf tournament. But far, far more than he needed anything on a scorecard, he needed this week. McIlroy needed to have fun.

This is not a drill. Rory McIlroy singing Don't Stop Believing pic.twitter.com/y5PkEDoqo4 — Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller) April 28, 2024

This all began with a “really drunken lunch” after their Ryder Cup win last fall. McIlroy asked Lowry if they could team up for the Zurich Classic — the PGA Tour ’s only team event. Lowry has played this event before but, fearful of rejection, never asked McIlroy to team up. McIlroy sent Lowry a Christmastime text confirming. He was coming to New Orleans.

Fast forward to Saturday night, and just off Bourbon Street in the French Quarter at a classic white tablecloth Creole joint called Arnaud’s, McIlroy and Lowry received a standing ovation from the other diners. This isn’t even some casual weekend in Louisiana. It’s Jazz Fest. It’s NFL Draft week. The Pelicans are in the playoffs. Yet the people were so psyched to have the No. 2 player in the world they filled TPC Louisiana with the largest galleries anyone can recall and applauded them at restaurants. One TV reporter joked the last athlete to receive that was Reggie Bush nearly two decades ago.

“It was weird for me,” Lowry said. “That stuff doesn’t happen to me.”

“It doesn’t happen to me, either!” McIlroy joked.

“He’s getting old,” Lowry said with a cheeky grin. “But he can still move the needle a little bit.  Rory brings a crowd, and people love him.”

A little context. McIlroy isn’t having a very good season. It became a running gag last week that Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott, is outearning McIlroy in 2024. And McIlroy has been having a stressful few years. He was the face of the PGA Tour in its war with LIV and the most public-facing policy board member. Then, he got blindsided by the PGA Tour entering into a framework agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (LIV’s owners), calling himself a “sacrificial lamb” as they sent him to speak to the media the next day.

He then reportedly lost a power battle over the future of the tour to Patrick Cantlay and decided to leave the board, with Sports Illustrated reporting Cantlay and others like Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth focused more on catering to the tour’s elites. McIlroy then changed his tune and campaigned for unification with LIV. He rubbed people the wrong way, criticizing Spieth publicly for saying the PGA Tour didn’t “need” the Saudis. He consistently made comments about the desire for money ruining the sport. He got in an awkward incident at the Players Championship with playing partners Spieth and Viktor Hovland.

Oh, and the golf has suffered. It’s all relative. He’s still top 30 nearly every week, but has just one PGA Tour finish better than 19th all season. When he finished T22 at the Masters two weeks ago, he got questions about whether he needed to blow up his swing and do a full reset.

Then, he went to New Orleans.

McIlroy was not locked in this week, at least not for most of the week. This week was about having fun with his old buddy Shane. They didn’t even practice when they got in Tuesday because the course was too busy, so they messed around at the chipping green instead. During the Wednesday Pro-Am, they hardly even played every other shot. They seemed to hit when they felt like it while walking and talking the rest. They crushed chargrilled oysters from Drago’s on the 10th hole and teased each other.

Who knows how worried they even were as they entered the seventh hole Sunday five back of the leaders. Yes, they’re competitors and want to win, but they were just going with the flow.

Then, McIlroy got hot. Playing alternate shot, they birdied four of the next five holes to get one back. McIlroy dropped a saucy little club twirl that he hasn’t shown in years on a perfect iron shot on 14. And right around that time, he clearly started to want it a bit more. When he put his drive on 16 into a bunker, he bent over and held his head down for a full minute in frustration.

But no worries. Lowry hit a perfect wedge from the bunker to the center of the green, and McIlroy hit a wide-breaking putt to take a share of the lead.

On the par-3 17th, Lowry’s tee shot flew into the crowd and he later missed a tough par putt. He was visibly disappointed with himself, but McIlroy speedily chased him off the green to say, “Hey, Shane. That was a good putt.”

“Rory is there backing me up this week,” Lowry said, “and he was a great teammate, and he made me believe in myself. It was good to have him there to do that.”

They then birdied 18 to send it to a playoff, and thanks to a missed putt by Martin Trainer in the playoff, McIlroy won his 25th PGA Tour tournament and Lowry earned himself a spot in the remaining PGA Tour signature events. Teamwork.

Yeah, maybe McIlroy was the key to the win this week, but there’s a chance Lowry was the key to a much-needed week for McIlroy. Because he admitted this week was about getting away from the stress.

“Absolutely,” he said. “The reason that Shane and I both started to play golf is because we thought it was fun at some stage in our life.  I think sort of reinjecting a little bit of that fun back into it in a week like this week, it can always help.”

And as the event finished, tournament organizers could be seen celebrating the coup of one of the game’s biggest stars winning and possibly coming back next year to defend his title. This isn’t exactly one of the tour’s bigger events. They’d kill for McIlroy in the field again. So he was asked, “Has anyone started trying to sell you on returning?”

“I don’t think they need to try,” McIlroy said. “I think we’re coming back.”

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Changing again: Indian Wells Golf Resort to construct two new closing holes in redesign

When John Fought redesigned one of the two courses at the Indian Wells Golf Resort in 2007, he essentially built a new golf course on top of an existing one. But Fought still had one major problem.

“One thing I had to do was keep 17 and 18 because of the (Renaissance Esmeralda Resort) hotel,” Fought recalled. “I never wanted to keep those holes.”

Fought is getting a second chance at redesigning the Players Course at the golf resort, and this time that work will specifically get rid of the par-3 17th and the par-5 18th holes. It’s part of a project to re-route the golf course for the city of Indian Wells’ needs, give land back to the Renaissance hotel and maybe make the course more enticing for professional golf tournaments.

“That was part of the guidance. Troon (the golf resort’s management firm) thinks we would have a challenge getting a PGA Tour course here, but they are comfortable with an LPGA, a senior tournament,” said Chris Freeland, city manager for Indian Wells. “And we have had initial discussions with the LPGA as part of the Epson discussion about coming here.”

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The city voted last November to sponsor the Epson Tour Championship, the final event of the year for the LPGA’s developmental tour. The Players Course, host of that event the first week of October, should be radically different by the fall of 2025. Currently, 16 holes on the Players Course are on the north side of the Whitewater Wash, but golfers must drive down into the wash to reach the 17th and 18th holes on the south side of the wash.

“There is nothing wrong with those holes. They are just out there in the middle of nowhere,” Fought said.

Freeland said when the course was built originally in 1986 by architect Ted Robinson, the Renaissance wanted those golf holes near the hotel. Now the hotel would like the land back to add family friendly amenities to that resort.

That gave the city the chance to approve a project of nearly $9 million that will change the golf course but also allow the city to add what it feels are needed enhancements.

“Part of the rehab of the course included our desire to do a fire access road,” Freeland said, adding that the access road added $1.5 million to the project. “The city has been talking about that for years, because this bridge (from the clubhouse over the wash to the first tee) cannot handle a fire truck. There really is no access to the pavilion and the rest of the course. So let’s combine these projects together.”

While the prospect of more professional tournaments on the course is on the minds of the city and Fought, there are other changes needed in the redesign that are about everyday play at the golf resort. One is the idea of a ninth hole that comes back to the course's pavillion rather than leaving golfers out on the golf course, said Mayor Greg Sanders.

“Let’s go back to the returning nine. It is a food and beverage play for us,” Sanders said. “We have the Fairway Grill right out there. If you’ve got people finishing the front nine and stopping at the Fairway Grill, that’s good for revenue.”

The new ninth hole will be a par-3 and return to the pavilion area where the golf resort also hosts parties, weddings and city activities.

“It’s going to be a par-71. We are still going to have four par-5s. We are going to have an extra 3, which is good,” Fought said. “And then we look around and we connect the nines differently. What used to be No. 5 is going to become No. 14, for instance.”

While some holes will be re-numbered, construction crews will build new holes along the edge of the wash, creating a new set of closing holes and eliminating the old 17th and 18th holes entirely. But two new holes means fitting them into land already used for other holes.

“You can’t just throw two more holes out there. There isn’t blank space,” said Fought, whose courses have hosted four U.S. Women's Opens, PGA Tour events and U.S. Amateur championships. “We had to move all the holes around. So now what we have to do is change like seven holes to be able to make it work.  But even the remaining holes on the course will see renovation.

“There are things out there that are going to be 18 years old by the time we touch it,” Fought said. “Things like bunkers and the tees. So I try to keep everything that was good about the golf course but add more interest to it.”

That renovation will include bunkers on each hole, new teeing areas and renovating greens on remaining holes so they will play like the greens on the new holes.

Fought said work on the new course will begin probably in mid-March of 2025 with the hope to finish construction in July. That way the course can grow in the base Bermuda grass and still be able to overseed to cool-weather grass for a November opening. That also means that if the option for a second year is picked up on the Epson Tour Championship for 2025, that tournament might be switched to the Clive Clark-designed Celebrity Course at the golf resort for 2025.

Freeland, Sanders and Fought all said it is important for them to retain the award-winning status of the course, which is ranked on numerous national and regional lists of the best public golf courses or resort courses in Southern California.

“I don’t want the golf course to be downgraded in any way,” Fought said. “So I thought it was an opportunity to keep what is good and maybe massage it a little.”

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PGA ready to return to Valhalla for major tournament in May

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The PGA Championship is one of the four biggest tournaments of the year, and this year, the world’s best golfers are coming to Louisville.

It’s the fourth time Valhalla Golf Club will host the event, with the most recent coming in 2014. If you recall, it got a little muddy on Sunday that year but still made for some great golf.

Things look a little different this time around. The greens are updated, tee boxes have been moved around, and the fairway will likely play faster and therefore shorter, having switched to a zoysia grass.

PGA Chief Championships Officer Kerry Haigh is responsible for making sure each tournament course is ready for the event.

He couldn’t be happier with how Valhalla has shaped up.

“I can’t wait,” said Haigh, “for the best players to see it in this condition at this time of year.”

The first practice round is Monday May 13.

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• Open qualifier Griffin Wood cards 11-under 60 and ties the second-lowest 36-hole score (any consecutive rounds) in Korn Ferry Tour history at 18-under 124
• Frankie Capan III , who held a three-stroke lead after tying the Korn Ferry Tour record for lowest 18-hole score relative to par with a first-round 13-under 58, trails Wood by one stroke with two holes remaining in his second round (par-4 eighth, par-5 ninth)
• The current projected 36-hole cut line of 7-under 135 (19 players at T55) would tie the Korn Ferry Tour record for the lowest 36-hole cut score (5-under 135/2023 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open Benefitting KU Wichita Pediatrics; 7-under 135/2023 NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank; 6-under 135/2024 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard), in addition to tying the lowest 36-hole cut score relative to par (7-under/five times)
• The 36-hole cut will be made upon completion of the second round Saturday morning, while third-round tee times will run from 10:30 a.m. through 12:48 p.m. in groups of three off the first and 10th tees

Griffin Wood (1st/-18)

• Follows first-round 7-under 64 with 11-under 60 in second round to tie the second-lowest 36-hole score (any consecutive rounds) in Korn Ferry Tour history
• A 34-year-old open qualifier making Korn Ferry Tour debut and seventh PGA TOUR-sanctioned start (previous six all came in 2022 on PGA TOUR Canada)
• Earned spot in this week’s field with birdie on the first hole of a 5-for-2 playoff at the Waterchase Golf Club open qualifier site
• Best finish in six starts on PGA TOUR Canada in 2022 was T40/Quebec Open
• Does not currently have status on any PGA TOUR-sanctioned tour
• Played four seasons at Evansville University (2008-12), posting a 75.00 career scoring average, which ranked second in program history upon exhaustion of his eligibility
• Attended Boonville High School in his former hometown of Boonville, Indiana, where he grew up playing Quail Crossing Golf Club

Lowest 36-Hole Score (Consecutive Rounds) in Korn Ferry Tour History

Frankie Capan III (2nd/-17 thru 16*)

• Stands 17-under par and one stroke behind clubhouse leader Griffin Wood with two holes remaining in his second round
• In Thursday’s first round, carded 13-under 58 and tied the Korn Ferry Tour record for lowest 18-hole score relative to par, in addition to tying the second-lowest 18-hole score in Korn Ferry Tour history, and recording the 13th sub-60 round in Korn Ferry Tour history
• In line to establish a new career-high 36-hole position in what is his 31st career start on the Korn Ferry Tour (T3/2023 Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS/finished 4th)
• Finished T30 at 2023 Veritex Bank Championship, his only previous appearance at the event
• Finished No. 51 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie last season, earning fully exempt status for the 2024 season
• Finished T8 at Final Stage of 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (now PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry); he was one of eight players who advanced through each stage of Q-School, beginning with pre-qualifying, in 2022
• Played two seasons at University of Alabama (2018-20) and two seasons at Florida Gulf Coast University (2020-22), earning one victory and garnering All-Atlantic Sun Conference Second Team honors in 2021 and 2022 while at Florida Gulf Coast
• Won back-to-back individual state titles at the Arizona Interscholastic Association Division III Championships in 2017 and 2018, winning the latter by 10 strokes off the strength of a second-round 11-under 59 on the Sonoran Desert Course at Omni Tucson National Resort

Griffin Wood on where he’s played most of his professional golf to this point… “I've got a lot of mini tours in the U.S., played on the Dakotas Tour, I played everywhere, APT a little bit, the Asher Tour out in Phoenix and I played (PGA TOUR) Canada two years ago. I had conditional, so I played there half a season. Last year I had conditional, but I didn't get into anything. Yeah, so mostly in the U.S. I've been playing full time for about five years in total even though I'm a little older. I had to take some time off. A little later progression.”

Wood on what was behind his extended break from professional golf… “ I had a back injury where I couldn't play for a couple years. When I came back, I was not shooting 60s on courses. I had to work to support myself and try and get my game back and try and play as much as I could. I played one year out of college. So I graduated in 2012, played for a year. Played pretty well, like was ‑‑ so I kind of proved to myself I could do it in small mini tours. Then I got hurt right before Q‑School right out of college, it would have been 2013. Then I was off for a couple years and was kind of pedaling around for a while. I've been back for the last four, I'd say, playing pretty full time and trying to get back.”

Wood on the playoff at Monday’s open qualifier… “I was playing solid golf and I bogeyed my last hole in regulation. It was a pretty easy hole, and I was pretty devastated because I thought that would be the difference. But I rebounded really well, because after I made that bogey, you know, you can go south quick. Me and another guy, Matt Atkins, birdied the first hole in a 5‑for‑2 (playoff). I had my head on straight, that was the big thing, and I was able to play right after I finished. I went right to the playoff hole, which helped. We finished in the dark, we didn't have any more time to play another hole and it worked out perfectly.”

Additional Player Notes

• Trent Phillips (3rd/-16) follows career-low 10-under 61 with 6-under 65 and shatters his previous career-low 36-hole score of 132/2023 BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX
• Tim Widing (4th/-15), who won last week’s LECOM Suncoast Classic, has four holes remaining in his second round and is one of three Korn Ferry Tour winners in the top 10 of the leaderboard
• The only other Korn Ferry Tour winners in the current top 10 of the leaderboard are Kyle Jones (T5/-12) and Andrew Kozan (T5/-12)
• Amateur Preston Stout (T11/-11), who attended J.J. Pearce High School in nearby Richardson, Texas, follows 4-under 67 with 7-under 64; he is a freshman at Oklahoma State University who earned co-medalist honors Wednesday at the 2024 Big 12 Conference Championship, and is making his first PGA TOUR-sanctioned start
• Arlington, Texas native, University of Texas-Arlington alum and conditional member Caleb Hicks (T39/-8), competing as a sponsor exemption, is 5-under through 10 holes in his second round and seeking his first made cut in what is his second career Korn Ferry Tour start (MC/2024 Astara Chile Classic)
• Reigning champion Spencer Levin (T90/-5) finishes two strokes off the current projected 36-hole cut line of 7-under 135
• Miles Russell (T102/-4), a 15-year-old amateur who became the youngest player to make a cut in Korn Ferry Tour history at last week’s LECOM Suncoast Classic, makes a late run at the cut line with birdies at the par-4 seventh and eighth, but closes with bogey at par-5 ninth for second-round 1-under 70