| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Sarasota, Florida, United States |
| Established | 1985 |
| Type | Private |
| Owned by | Heritage Golf Group |
| Operated by | Heritage Golf Group |
| Total holes | 36 |
| Tournaments hosted | Chrysler Cup (1987–94), American Express Invitational (1996–2000) |
| Website | www.tpcprestancia.com |
| Stadium Course | |
| Designed by | Ron Garl |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,941 yards |
| Club Course | |
| Designed by | Robert Von Hagge |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,593 yards |
TPC Prestancia is a private golf club located in Sarasota, Florida located in the Palmer Ranch community.
Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2013 Sarasota had a population of 53,326. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area, and is the seat of Sarasota County.
The club is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour, and features two golf courses over 565 acres. Created by the PGA TOUR in 1985, The Stadium Course was designed by Ron Garl in consultation with Mike Souchak, and the Players Course, designed by Robert Von Hagge in consultation with Bruce Devlin . In 2007, the facility was sold to the Heritage Golf Group, but retained its TPC branding under a licensing agreement. [1]
Tournament Players Club (TPC) is a chain of public and private golf courses operated by the PGA Tour. Most of the courses either are or have been hosts for PGA Tour events, with the remainder having frequently hosted events on the second-tier Web.com Tour or the over-50s PGA Tour Champions.
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main professional golf tours played primarily by men in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, as well as PGA Tour Champions and the Web.com Tour, as well as PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica, and PGA Tour China. The PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville.
A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played. It comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick ("pin") and hole ("cup"). A standard round of golf consists of 18 holes. Most courses contain 18 holes; some share fairways or greens, and a subset has nine holes, played twice per round. Par-3 courses consist of nine or 18 holes all of which have a par of three strokes.
TPC Prestancia hosted the Chrysler Cup from 1987 to 1994, and the American Express Invitational from 1996 to 2000, both tournaments on the Senior PGA Tour.
