PGA West Stadium is in La Quinta, CA. It is located inside the massive PGA West residential complex. There are six golf courses that are all surrounded by homes. The Stadium course is designed by Pete Dye, and was designed with the mindset to make a course that would be extremely hard for tour pros. I don’t know the exact history, but I know the pros complained about how hard it was right off the bat, and then they stopped going there. There are humps, bumps, and moguls ALL OVER THE PLACE here. This place has to be a maintenance nightmare for the superintendent. You would have to use a flymow or weed wacker for pretty much all the rough. Just driving around in a golf cart you practically need a 4x4 vehicle. With all that being said there are a lot of very good designed golf holes out there. The distances are from the tournament tees at 7,300 yards.
Hole 1 Par 4 445 yards The first three holes are sort of right in front of you and pretty average, just hit it in the fairway and you are ok.
Hole 2 Par 4 371 yards
Hole 3 Par 4 471 yards
Hole 4 Par 3 192 yards
Hole 5 Par 5 535 yards Double Trouble is the name of the hole. Water left off the tee, and then water right on the approach.
Hole 6 Par 3 255 yards From the back tee many will need to hit driver just to clear the water. You can lay up to the left and leave yourself a pitch in if need be.
Hole 7 Par 4 346 yards Very good hole, hit it in the thin fairway with water right and trouble left, and then am left with a semi blind wedge shot into the green.
Hole 8 Par 5 559 yards
Hole 9 Par 4 452 yards The front nine has the typical railroad ties that are usually on Pete Dye tracks.
Hole 10 Par 4 416 yards Then all of a sudden once you get the back all the holes are with big rock boulders against the water.
Hole 11 Par 5 617 yards This is a wild par 5, the tee shot is right in front of you but then the VERY LONG lay up shot is important. It then becomes a split fairway with a really high up right side and then a really low left side. If you are on the left side you are so low that you cannot even see the green.
Hole 12 Par 4 363 yards The moat hole. This is my favorite of the course. You must position yourself perfectly on the right side of the fairway to have an angle into the hole, once there you must hit enough club to carry the 10 foot deep moat bunker that surrounds the green on 3 sides.
Hole 13 Par 3 214 yards Another tough par 3 that is all over water
Hole 14 Par 4 389 yards
Hole 15 Par 4 468 yards
Hole 16 Par 5 600 yards Ok here is the stretch of the famous 3 hole stretch. This is an awesome par 5. Once again the second shot is very crucial on where you should position yourself. Once at the green you are faced with at least a 20 foot deep bunker running along the whole left side of the green and behind.
Hole 17 Par 3 168 yards Here is the island green, much harder from the 168 range, and IMO more intimating with all the rocks around.
Hole 18 Par 4 439 yards The typical Pete Dye finishing hole with water left dogleg left par 4. Hit the fairway for any chance at an easy par.