Tournament Fact Sheet
TOUR Championship East Lake Golf Club • Atlanta, Ga. • Sept. 4-7, 2020
Director of Agronomy Tournament Set-up Ralph Kepple, CGCS Par: 70 Phone: 404-687-2449 Yardage: 7,319 (unofficial) Email: [email protected] Stimpmeter: 12 Twitter: @eastlakegcagro Course Statistics Years as GCSAA Member: 38 Average Green Size: 6,090 sq. ft. Years at East Lake: 28 Average Tee Size: 6,600 sq. ft. Years as a Superintendent: 28 Acres of Fairway: 24 Previous Courses: Settindown Creek GC (asst), Acres of Rough: 110 Lancaster CC (asst) Number of Sand Bunkers: 74 Hometown: Mount Vernon, Ohio Number of Water Hazards: 5 Education: Ohio State University How many holes is water in play: 4 Soil Conditions: Red Georgia clay Number of Employees: 30 Water Sources: 24-acre pond Number of Tournament Volunteers: 70 Drainage Conditions: Good
Other Key Golf Personnel Turfgrass Charles Aubry, Superintendent Greens: MiniVerde Ultra Dwarf Dustin Bucher, Assistant Superintendent bermudagrass .100” Tees: Tifway bermudagrass /. Meyer and Davis Watts, Assistant Superintendent Zorro zoysiagrass .375” Anthony Herzog, Equipment Manager Fairways: Meyer zoysiagrass .400” Drew Dunn, PGA Professional Rough: Tifway bermudagrass 2.5” Chad Parker, Manager Additional Notes Course Architect • Since last year trees were removed on the Architect (year): Tom Bendelow (1906) 15th hole to combine the back two tees into Renovation Architects (year): Donald Ross (1914), one larger teeing area to give a wider range of yardage options. Rees Jones (1994, 2008, 2016)
• With the lack of structures and spectators the course is expected to play a bit different as the rough will not be matted down Tournament Fact Sheets for the PGA, LPGA, Champions outside the rope line as much, which may create more difficult recoveries from widely and Korn Ferry Tours can be found all year at: missed shots. https://www.gcsaa.org/media/tournament-fact-sheets
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