The TOUR heads to North Carolina for the final week of the regular season -- an all-important week for players hoping to make it into the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. Here's all you need to know about the host course -- Sedgefield CC.
| Fast facts |
| Course Superintendent | Keith C. Wood |
| Original architect | Donald Ross (1926) |
| Course remodel | Kris Spence (2007) |
| Number of TOUR events as host venue | 31 (including 2012) |
| Course ranking | Ranked 39th (out of 51 courses) in difficulty on the PGA TOUR in 2011 |
| Yardage history | 6,680 (1938-1969) |
| | 7,034 (1970-1972) |
| | 7,012 (1973-1974) |
| | 6,643 (1975-1976) |
| | 7,117 (2008-2009) |
| | 7,130 (2010-present) |
| Grass | Bermudagrass (tees, fairways, rough); Champions Bermudagrass (greens) |
| Tournament Stimpmeter | 12 feet |
| Sand bunkers | 48 |
| Water hazards | 12 creeks, 1 pond |
| Course tour | Click here |
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| Course record |
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| Player
Carl Pettersson
Arjun Atwal
Kevin Na | Year
2008
2010
2010 | Round
2nd
1st
3rd | Finish
WON
WON
T18 |
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| Holes-in-one |
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| Steve Elkington | No. 3 | 2009 |
| Brendan Gielow | No. 3 | 2010 |
| Derek Lamely | No. 16 | 2011 |
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| Sedgefield | 2011 rankings | Last 3 years |
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| 1 | 4 | 418 | 4.013 | 9 | 4.017 | 7 |
| 2 | 4 | 442 | 4.015 | 8 | 3.965 | 9 |
| 3 | 3 | 174 | 2.921 | 12 | 2.895 | 13 |
| 4 | 4 | 428 | 4.055 | 6 | 3.992 | 8 |
| 5 | 5 | 529 | 4.341 | 18 | 4.379 | 18 |
| 6 | 4 | 423 | 3.978 | 10 | 3.953 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 223 | 3.066 | 5 | 3.040 | 6 |
| 8 | 4 | 374 | 3.836 | 16 | 3.806 | 16 |
| 9 | 4 | 416 | 3.952 | 11 | 3.914 | 11 |
| 10 | 4 | 440 | 4.039 | 7 | 4.072 | 4 |
| 11 | 4 | 486 | 4.214 | 2 | 4.133 | 3 |
| 12 | 3 | 235 | 3.109 | 3 | 3.070 | 5 |
| 13 | 4 | 405 | 3.873 | 15 | 3.898 | 12 |
| 14 | 4 | 501 | 4.081 | 4 | 4.142 | 2 |
| 15 | 5 | 545 | 4.435 | 17 | 4.416 | 17 |
| 16 | 3 | 165 | 2.893 | 13 | 2.885 | 14 |
| 17 | 4 | 406 | 3.877 | 14 | 3.877 | 15 |
| 18 | 4 | 507 | 4.274 | 1 | 4.239 | 1 |
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| Course origins |
On September 22, 2007, Sedgefield Country Club's famous Donald Ross golf course reopened following a major 10 month, $3 million restoration project, which transformed the golf course back to how Ross intended the course to play, while taking into consideration the changes in golf technology and turfgrass development over the last 50 years.
Sedgefield has played host to many major amateur events in the Carolinas, as well as hosting the Greater Greensboro Open for over 50 years. On May 8, 1953, the Atlantic Coast Conference was formed at Sedgefied Country Club.
The course does not play long off the tees, but must be played from the green back to the tee. Emphasis must be put on ball placement in the fairway in order to get the appropriate angle to the green. The greens at Sedgefield are very undulating and slope from back to front, with many falling off the edges into collection areas.
In February 2011 the Sedgefield membership voted to sell the club to McConnell Golf. Sedgefield became the seventh club and second Donald Ross course owned by the McConnell group. Since that time substantial improvements have been made to the clubhouse and the grounds surrounding the property. -- Source: Golf Course Superintendents Association of America |
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| Tournament course history |
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| Sedgefield Country Club | Greensboro, N.C. | 1938-1941*, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1961-1976, 2008-present |
| Starmount Forest Country Club | Greensboro, N.C. | 1938-1942**, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958-1960 |
| Forest Oaks CC | Greensboro, N.C. | 1977-2007 |
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