Valhalla Golf Club on the Left

Par 4 Par 4 Yards 446 Yards 435 A relatively benign Brush Run Creek opening hole that runs down the entire bends to the left, right side of the hole, though players and the landing should be careful not zone is framed by a to hit too close to the The PGA Championship returns to Valhalla small bunker to the left side of the fairway Golf Club, the first time it’s been played left and a larger and have trees affecting bunker to the right. the second shot. Two there since Tiger Woods’ epic three-hole The creek also bunkers have been playoff win in 2000. The $10 million is in play around added since 2000, purse for the 2014 tournament the green, one on the front which has right and one pushes the season’s final a bunker to toward the major ahead of the other the left. back left. three championships. AUG. 7-10 Par 4 Yards 500 Par 4 Slight dogleg to Yards 508 the left, with a finger of Floyds Fork ClubhouseClubhouse The creek again bordering the left guards the right side of the fairway side of the fairway and a bunker on this slight dogleg squeezing the right to the right, with a side. The slopes in tree-covered slope the green have and deep rough been softened to Valhalla Golf Club on the left. The accommodate Louisville, Kentucky 17th tee behind long irons, but the green has been the green is AUG. 7-10 lowered, allowing relatively small. Two bunkers guard for a large amphitheater. the left side, and anything too wild 7,458 yards • Par 35-36 – 71 Two bunkers have been added might find the creek. A new bunker around the green. has been added to the right. Par 3 Par 4 Par 4 Par 4 Yards 205 The green has been Yards 415 Yards 467 Yards 472 Floyds Fork winds moved back 80 yards Par 4 Three bunkers between the tee since 2000. The hole The tee The lowering of the 495 border the and the green, Yards is divided shot tee makes for a right side of then sweeps by Floyds must be long, uphill tee the fairway around to the Fork, and long and shot with bunkers and two bunkers right of the the first straight before squeezing both are on the left. The green. The challenge the hole drops off sides of the fairway. difficulty of this hole is green is is to find toward a green The hole is 50 the uphill approach protected by a the fairway. The that is elevated. The yards longer than toward the clubhouse. large bunker to second shot will be green has one of the it was for the 2000 One of the largest the left and a a long iron to a deepest bunkers PGA Championship. and deepest bunkers smaller bunker to green guarded on the course to A collection area on the course is just the right. A small portion by a bunker on the right and thick and two staggered right of the green. has been added to the back the left side and a bluegrass rough bunkers guard right for possible hole locations, collection area on to the left. the green. which likely will be the toughest. the right. Par 5 Par 5 The signature hole Par 4 Yards 597 Yards 590 Par 5 Yards 372 at Valhalla is the This can be reached shortest par 4 and Yards 542 in two, but it requires Par 4 A deep bunker protects Players might be the most a well-shaped tee Yards 350 the left side and a will have the exciting. The landing shot on this double smaller bunker option of going area with an iron is dogleg. A right-to- is on the right. left or right on a surrounded by six The second left shot is ideal off Big hitters might hole that offers a split bunkers to straight major the tee, provided it want to challenge fairway. Going to the the left. The ends with a par avoids a fairway the left bunker to left will shorten the green is built 5. A large bunker bunker on the right leave a flip wedge to hole by 50 yards, up nearly 20 protects the left side and rough on the the green. Anything but the landing feet on large of the fairway, with a left. A left-to-right over the back area is only 26 boulders and pond down the right shot is needed to could dribble yards wide and surrounded by side. A decent shot reach the green, into Floyds is surrounded water. With tees will allow most which is protected Fork. by rough and slightly forward, players to go for by a deep a water hazard. some might be tempted the green. The bunker and has The safer route is to reach the green with a second shot needs two tiers. right, although the fairway is tight long, flawless tee shot. to come in high to an elevated and lined by bunkers. green with a bunker guarding the entire front portion. The green has severe sloping that runs from the A good drive Par 3 Par 3 upper portion to the lower left and should set up a Yards 174 right levels. birdie opportunity, Yards 210 Par 3 although the approach The shortest hole is Yards 217 is into the prevailing guarded by a deep This is an uphill par 3 Illustrations are schematic wind. A dogleg that bunker in front of that is guarded by The longest bends sharply to the green and a two bunkers in the par 3 features a the left with gorse slippery collection front that stretch two-tiered green Previous bushes to the area behind it. around to with a large bunker PGA Championships left and fairway Another bunker the left, and guarding the bunkers on the is to the left, another that front. There at Valhalla right side, along with a with Floyds Fork guards the are two large 2000 Tiger Woods bunker on the inside of beyond it, and the back. Anything bunkers behind the dogleg. The green green has multiple long will tumble the green, one for 66-67-70-67-270 • -18 is heavily contoured tiers to make every down a hill and the lower tier and one for the upper Par 4 and protected by a new hole location require make par a tier, and either will be a tough spot 1996 Mark Brooks Yards 463 bunker to the right. precision off the tee. difficult chore. from which to save par. 68-70-69-70-277 • -11 SOURCE: Valhalla Golf Club AP PGA CHAMP HOLES 080414: Graphic illustrates holes at Valhalla Golf Club; with BC-GLF--PGA Championship or related stories; 6c x 14 inches; staff; ETA 1 p.m. Editor’s Note: It is mandatory to include all sources that accompany this graphic when repurposing or editing it for publication.

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