TPC Sawgrass: Home of an American PLAYERS Champion

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Published: May 20, 2012

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Golf Writer Andy Reistetter likes to hang out at TPC Sawgrass, especially on Friday for Happy Hour at Nineteen in the Clubhouse. In a musing mood a week after Matt Kuchar won THE PLAYERS Championship, Reistetter shares his thoughts of TPC Sawgrass, THE PLAYERS, and the TPC Network. Take a moment and savor it as it was five years in the making. The last American to win THE PLAYERS was Phil Mickelson in 2008. If you have ever heard Bill Hughes, the General Manager of TPC Sawgrass, speak you likely came away with a new dynamic acronym for the word "TEAM"- Together Everyone Activates Magic. THE PLAYERS 2012 was indeed a magical week. Hosted by Bill's TPC Sawgrass team, managed by Executive Director Matt Rapp's championship force field and staged by over 2,000 volunteers led by Red Coat Chairman Curtis Hazel, this was a week to remember. Perfect weather, an outstanding field (even Tiger Woods finished 72 holes for the first time in three years), with excellent golf course conditions (hats off to Superintendant Tom Vlach and his crew), record crowds and dramatic competition.

Whether or not an American won is not relevant when you look at the champions in between Mickelson and Kuchar- Spaniard Sergio Garcia, Swede Henrik Stenson, South African Tim Clark and South Korea's K.J. Choi. All have done a tremendous job as THE PLAYERS champion during their reign of supremacy over their peers on the best golf tour in the world. Choi, who came to the Jacksonville area to hone his golfing skills in the late 1990s, is a local favorite and someone you'd see shopping at the Publix grocery store. Kuchar at one time lived right in Ponte Vedra Beach and his parents still do. When a hometown boy wins in golf it is well received no matter what country it occurs in.

As the PR out of PGA TOUR headquarters at the other end of Championship Way from the Clubhouse states, there is "only one TPC Network." I count 33 TPC facilities that combined host 13 PGA TOUR, four Champio...
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