TPC Southwind

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TPC Southwind
Club information
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Location in the United States
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Location in Tennessee
Coordinates 35°03′25″N89°46′44″W / 35.057°N 89.779°W / 35.057; -89.779 Coordinates: 35°03′25″N89°46′44″W / 35.057°N 89.779°W / 35.057; -89.779
Location Memphis, Tennessee U.S.
Elevation350 feet (110 m)
Established1988;34 years ago (1988)
TypePrivate
Operated by PGA Tour TPC Network
Total holes18
Tournaments hosted
GreensChampion Bermuda grass
FairwaysMeyer Zoysia grass [1]
Website tpc.com/southwind/
Designed by Ron Prichard
Par 70
Length7,244 yards (6,624 m) [2]
Course rating 75.6
Slope rating 149 [3]
Course record61 – Jay Delsing (1993)
         Bob Estes (2001) [4]
         Tom Lewis (2020)

TPC Southwind is a private golf club in Shelby County, Tennessee, southern United States, [5] located within the gated community of Southwind in Southeast Memphis.

Contents

East-southeast of central Memphis, the 18-hole championship golf course was designed by Ron Prichard, in consultation with tour pros Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller. TPC Southwind opened thirty-four years ago in 1988, and is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour. It is near the world headquarters of FedEx, adjacent to the west.

TPC Southwind has been the venue for the tour's annual FedEx St. Jude Classic, formerly the Memphis Open, since 1989. The event was previously played at Colonial Country Club in Cordova. TPC Southwind was renovated following the 2004 event. [4]

Course

The course length for the first PGA Tour event was 7,006 yards (6,406 m) in 1989, [6] and has played at 7,244 yards (6,624 m) since 2005, [7] except in 2007 and 2008, when it was five yards shorter. With 94 bunkers and ten water hazards, TPC Southwind was ranked ninth in difficulty out of 51 courses on the PGA Tour in 2011. [4] Hole #14 at 239 yards (219 m) consistently ranks as one of the toughest par 3's on the PGA Tour. [8]

The course grass is Bermuda for the greens and rough, with Zoysia on the tees and fairways. [1] Prior to 2005, the greens were bent grass. [4]

Course record

The course record is 61, achieved twice professionally in the St. Jude Classic. Jay Delsing carded his in the fourth round in 1993 and tied for eighth place. [9] Bob Estes shot his 61 in the first round in 2001, [10] and held on to win the event by a stroke. [11] Estes also has the only hole-in-one at the 14th hole in the tour event, aced in 2002. Amateur golfer Braden Thornberry also shot the score 61 in a local junior event in August 2012. [4]

Scorecard

TPC Southwind
Tee Rating/Slope 123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
PGA Tour75.6 / 149
Par 70		434401554196485445482178457363246516240647223939553049045336127244
Tournament73.3 / 146
Par 71		405385520170525425428164425344744114137042519535049645043833066753
Players71.0 / 133
Par 71		375351495158475393400159408321439612732939817634446040041330436257
Blended69.4 / 130
Par 71		337C351P495P146C475P365C360C159P373C3061382C127P329P398P142C305C460P400P378C29215982
ClubM: 68.5 / 123
L: 74.6 / 132
Par 71		337316438146451365360146373293238211729033714230544537237827685700
Par44534/5443435/364/53443454435/36
SI Men's315511139717161610188121424
SI Ladies'715111591317341814161210628
Forward71.3 / 131
Par 72		29929241610343333634013132926793749323429810527837637230024305109
Family167180242902301311221181551435139671221827121823517015113552790
Source: [2] [3] [12]

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  2. 1 2 "Interactive Course Tour". TPC Southwind. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Course Rating and Slope Database™: TPC at Southwind". USGA. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Inside the course: TPC Southwind". PGA Tour. June 4, 2012. Archived from the original on June 7, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ "TPC Southwind | United States | Weather | GolfWeather.com". www.golfweather.com. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  6. ↑ "Golf: St. Jude Classic results". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). August 7, 1989. p. 2B.
  7. ↑ "Golf: PGA Tour". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). May 30, 2005. p. B4.
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  9. ↑ "Price stays hottest item on tour". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). news services. August 2, 1993. p. 6B.
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