Tournament Fact Sheet

AT&T Byron Nelson TPC Craig Ranch • McKinney, • May 13-16, 2021

Golf Course Superintendent Tournament Set-up James Osborne, GCSAA Par: 36-36--72 Phone: 469-416-9887 Yardage: 7,468 Email: [email protected] Stimpmeter: 11.5 Twitter: @turf_2_envy Course Statistics Years as GCSAA Member: 20 Average Green Size: 6,778 sq. ft. Years at TPC Craig Ranch: 2 Acres of Fairway: 35 Years as a Superintendent: 7 Acres of Rough: 150 Previous Courses: Las Colinas Country Club (super), Number of Sand Bunkers: 83 Bear’s Best (super), The Clubs at Cordillera Number of Water Hazards: 4 Ranch (asst), The Country Club of Birmingham (asst) Number of Holes Water is in Play: 13 Hometown: New London, Iowa Water Sources: Well / city Education: Iowa State University Turfgrass Other Key Personnel Greens: Bentgrass .100” Christian Canafax, Assistant Superintendent Tees: Bermudagrass .400” John Jordan, Assistant Superintendent Fairways: Zoysiagrass .425” Zach Barber, Assistant Superintendent Rough: Bermudagrass 2.5” Carlos DeJesus, Equipment Manager Eyal RItte, Horticulturist Additional Notes Number of Employees: 25 • The winter storm in mid-February caused Number of Tournament Volunteers: 40 significant damage. Nearly five acres of tees and collars were replaced to repair damage from the winter kill. Course Architect Architect (year): Tom Weiskopf (2004) • Rowlett Creek runs through the property and crosses 14 of the 18 holes.

• The maintenance crew has three student interns from Iowa Central College.

• The course hosted the 2008 Nationwide (won by Matt Tournament Fact Sheets for the PGA, LPGA, Champions Bettencourt) and the 2012 Web.com Tour Championship (won by Justin Bolli). and Korn Ferry Tours and USGA can be found all year at: https://www.gcsaa.org/media/tournament-fact-sheets

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