Tournament Fact Sheet

ANA Inspiration Mission Hills Country Club – Tournament Course • Rancho Mirage, Calif. • April 4-7, 2019

Golf Course Superintendent Tournament Set-up Jared Taylor : 72 Phone: 760-485-6257 Yardage: 6,780 Cell: 760-485-6257 Stimpmeter: 13.5 Email: [email protected] Course Statistics Years as GCSAA Member: 6 Average Green Size: 7,000 sq. ft. Years at Mission Hills: 3 Average Size: 2,500 sq. ft. Years as a Superintendent: 3 Acres of Fairway: 21 Previous Courses: Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands Acres of Rough: 100 (assistant), Brookhaven Country Club (assistant) Number of sand bunkers: 68 Hometown: Simi Valley, Calif. Number of water hazards: 3 Education: College of the Desert CC Soil conditions: Blow sand Water sources: Aquafier Number of full-time staff members: 16 Drainage conditions: Very good Number of tournament volunteers: 0 Turfgrass Other Key Personnel Greens: 328 bermudagrass overseeded with Poa trivialis David Hay, CGCS, Director of Agronomy .950” Rey Montano, Equipment Manager : Bermudagrass overseeded with perennial ryegrass Rodney Silvagni, PGA Professional .325” Steve Swiackey, Green Committee Chairman Fairways: Bermudagrass overseeded with perennial Brett Draper, General Manager ryegrass .350” Rough: Bermudagrass overseeded with perennial Course Architect ryegrass 4.0” Architect (year): Desmond Muirhead (1970) Course Owner: Club Corp Additional Notes • The 18th hole features an island green. In 2009 won the event with an eagle on the 72nd hole – the only time in history one of golf’s majors was won on the final hole with an eagle. • The Dinah Shore course is one of three courses on the property (Arnold Palmer Signature Course – 1978 and Pete Dye Challenge Course – 1988).

• The facility includes a 17-acre , 10,000

square foot chipping green, four putting greens and a

multitude of practice bunkers.

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