Inside the course: Sedgefield Country Club

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Aug. 15, 2011
By PGA TOUR Staff

The TOUR heads to North Carolina for the final week of the regular season -- an all-important week for players hoping to make it into the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. Here's all you need to know about the host course -- Sedgefield CC.

Fast facts

Course Superintendent	Keith C. Wood
Original architect	Donald Ross (1926)
Course remodel	Kris Spence (2007)
Number of TOUR events as host venue	30 (including 2011)
Course ranking	Ranked 45th (out of 52 courses) in difficulty on the PGA TOUR in 2010
Yardage history	6,680 (1938-1969)
	7,034 (1970-1972)
	7,012 (1973-1974)
	6,643 (1975-1976)
	7,117 (2008-2009)
	7,130 (2010-present)
Grass	Bermudagrass (tees, fairways, rough); Bentgrass (greens)
Tournament Stimpmeter	11 feet
Sand bunkers	48
Water hazards	12 creeks, 1 pond
Course tour	Click here

Course record

Player
Carl Pettersson
Arjun Atwal

Year
2008
2010

Round
2nd
1st

Finish
WON
WON

Holes-in-one

Player	Hole	Year
Steve Elkington	No. 3	2009

2010 Rankings

Most Difficult Hole

	A wide fairway awaits this long par 4. Two center line bunkers create a deceptive approach shot to the skyline green. A restored pot bunker challenges the approach shot from the right side. 2010: 0 eagles, 44 birdies, 311 pars, 94 bogeys, 13 double bogeys, 3 others.
Easiest Hole
	A new back tee restores the uphill and somewhat blind tee shot to the saddled fairway. Two new bunkers provide an interesting and straight lay-up to the plateau green. 2010: 22 eagles, 253 birdies, 175 pars, 11 bogeys, 4 double bogeys and 0 others.

Sedgefield Country Club			2010 rankings
Hole	Par	Yards	Avg. Score	Rank
1	4	418	3.918	9
2	4	442	3.912	10
3	3	174	2.824	14
4	4	428	3.933	8
5	5	529	4.402	18
6	4	423	3.972	7
7	3	223	3.022	6
8	4	374	3.729	16
9	4	416	3.869	12
10	4	440	4.084	4
11	4	486	4.133	3
12	3	235	3.067	5
13	4	405	3.871	11
14	4	501	4.183	1
15	5	545	4.445	17
16	3	165	2.83	13
17	4	406	3.822	15
18	4	507	4.168	2

Course origins

On September 22, 2007, Sedgefield Country Club's famous Donald Ross golf course reopened following a major 10 month, $3 million restoration project, which transformed the golf course back to how Ross intended the course to play, while taking into consideration the changes in golf technology and turfgrass development over the last 50 years.

Sedgefield has played host to many major amateur events in the Carolinas, as well as hosting the Greater Greensboro Open for over 50 years. On May 8, 1953, the Atlantic Coast Conference was formed at Sedgefied Country Club.

The course does not play long off the tees, but must be played from the green back to the tee. Emphasis must be put on ball placement in the fairway in order to get the appropriate angle to the green. The greens at Sedgefield are very undulating and slope from back to front, with many falling off the edges into collection areas.

In February 2011 the Sedgefield membership voted to sell the club to McConnell Golf. Sedgefield became the seventh club and second Donald Ross course owned by the McConnell group. Since that time substantial improvements have been made to the clubhouse and the grounds surrounding the property. -- Source: Golf Course Superintendents Association of America

Tournament course history

Course	Location	Years
Sedgefield Country Club	Greensboro, N.C.	1938-1941*, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1961-1976, 2008-present
Starmount Forest Country Club	Greensboro, N.C.	1938-1942**, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958-1960
Forest Oaks CC	Greensboro, N.C.	1977-2007

* The tournament was played at both Starmount Forest CC and Sedgefield CC from 1938-1941. ** There was not a tournament in 1943 and 1944.

This week's Kodak Challenge hole

HOLE: The par-5, 547-yard 15th at Sedgefield
LAST YEAR: The 15th played to a stroke average of 4.445, with players recording 25 eagles, 243 birdies, 165 pars, 29 bogeys, 3 double bogeys and 0 others.
DESCRIPTION: The downhill tee shot must avoid a small creek on the left and a large fairway bunker on the right. Going for the green in two will require a long carry over water and deep greenside bunkering to a severe back to front sloping green.(Click here for Sedgefield tour