TPC Sawgrass rates are on the rise (again). Here’s what it costs to play

The Players Championship has the richest particular person purse of any event in skilled golf and its host venue is inching towards having the richest tee time in golf, too.

While business chief Shadow Creek in Las Vegas just lately upped its inexperienced charge to a staggering $1,250 from an already wallet-crushing $1,000, TPC Sawgrass, host web site of the PGA Tour’s signature occasion and residential to its company headquarters, is following swimsuit.

After topping out final winter at $840 per golfer throughout its peak season, a test of the Stadium Course’s reserving web site reveals the peak fee is now $900 for a morning tee time at the famed Pete Dye monitor.

While the course lists beginning rates of $650 per particular person throughout the September to May peak season, a fast test of the reserving instrument reveals scant availability, aside from a number of scattered tee instances in November. In reality, as of this writing, certainly one of the few respites from the $900 tee time is a beneficiant $112 low cost for 2 instances (9:10 a.m. and 9:40 a.m.) on Thanksgiving morning at $788 for one to three golfers.

Those rates embrace your inexperienced charge, cart charge, forecaddie base fee and a bag of balls at the observe vary. Gratuity for the forecaddie is on you, and we advocate being beneficiant, as your looper will probably be tasked with guiding you thru certainly one of the hardest and most treacherous checks in golf. The course suggests a tip of $40.

For these wishing to hoof it, you may improve to a strolling caddie, which is a further $125 per particular person for a single caddie or $85 per bag for a caddie to double bag. Again these are not inclusive of gratuity, which the course recommends $50 per bag.

And if you would like to go all-out, you may splurge on the Tour Player Experience which features a two-night keep at the Sawgrass Marriott, one spherical every on the Stadium Course and Dye’s Valley Course, a strolling caddie, participant locker-room entry, meals and extra swag. That will run you $2,554 a head and is now not supplied with out the in a single day keep and second spherical at the Valley course.

Off-season rates from June to August begin at simply $450. All of those rates blow away these of Dye’s Valley course which begin at $300 throughout peak season and $175 throughout the summer time.

Not every little thing at the course will value you an arm and a leg, nevertheless. The restaurant and golf store are each open to the public and you can too get a complimentary tour of the clubhouse and seventeenth gap from certainly one of TPC Sawgrass’ “Storytellers.” The excursions begin hourly from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This isn’t the greatest value improve for the Players Championship host, which options maybe the most well-known gap in golf with the island inexperienced, par-3 seventeenth. For winter 2022, greens charges skyrocketed $120 from the earlier peak fee of $720.

If you’re planning on visiting, be mindful the course is at the moment closed till November fifth and likewise closes for a few month in the lead up to the Players. In 2024, the course shuts down on Feb, 19 and reopens March 19, after the event.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf staff and just lately returned to the program to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Before becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but additionally producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He could be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.