If you were to name bucket list courses, chances are TPC Sawgrass would be high-up on that list.
Not only have the best players in the world won around its layout, but The Players Championship venue possesses some of the best and iconic golf holes in our sport.
TPC Sawgrass poses one of the most famous closing stretches in golf
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Being a public course, it is open to us regular Joes, provided you can cough up the green fee, so you or I could go to the Ponte Vedra Beach course and put a handicap card in.
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Despite being an incredibly tough layout, the world’s best can make it look easy. Greg Norman, for example, holds the tournament record at 24-under-par, while a single-digit under-par score hasn’t won The Players Championship since Sergio Garcia in 2008.
The course has produced highs, and it’s produced lows, and all of this has led us to the question, what would an average golfer shoot at TPC Sawgrass? Well, after speaking to the USGA, the governing body for handicaps, we have come up with the answer.
Norman fired rounds of 63, 67, 67 and 67 to win by four strokes and set the tournament record in 1994
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Digging into their archives, the USGA were able to give us a breakdown for those who hold a handicap index of 0.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0 and 20.0, with each teeing block also included.
To begin with, the Course Handicap is worked out by the formula: Handicap Index x (Slope Rating / 113) + (Course Rating – par).
That’s not all, as players can determine their “Target Score” (the score they’d achieve if they play to their handicap) by adding together the Course Handicap + par of the tees being played.
A breakdown for each Course Handicap and teeing block at TPC Sawgrass is noted below.
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|
Handicap Index |
Slope Rating |
Standard Slope |
Course Rating |
Par |
Course Handicap |
|
0.0 |
155 |
113 |
76.8 |
72 |
5 |
|
5.0 |
155 |
113 |
76.8 |
72 |
12 |
|
10.0 |
155 |
113 |
76.8 |
72 |
19 |
|
15.0 |
155 |
113 |
76.8 |
72 |
25 |
|
20.0 |
155 |
113 |
76.8 |
72 |
32 |
|
Handicap Index |
Slope Rating |
Standard Slope |
Course Rating |
Par |
Course Handicap |
|
0.0 |
148 |
113 |
73.9 |
72 |
2 |
|
5.0 |
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