Ginn sur Mer Course

[countjyro]

Dear All,

I have a question about the tournaments the pros play, and way they use the courses (The mention in today's post about being able to play a pro course reminded me of this).

For the Ginn sur Mer PGA Tour event, they played at the Tesoro club in Florida. My Uncle owns a lot there and I have been fortunate enough to play the course twice, the thing is, when the pros played it, they skipped around on the two 18 hole courses that were built. Is this a common practice for the tour? I believe my Uncle said they played holes 1-8 on one course, then the rest on a separate course, that just seems odd to me so I thought I would ask. Thanks for the time.

Sincerely,
Countjyro

[mybloodinvt]

this practice is very common when a club or resort has more than one course. they will choose to play some holes from one course and some from another course. sometimes they switch the nines for a pga tour tournament, play the back as the front and vice versa.i think they did this at congressional the last time the open was staged there. it probably has to do with logistics, cameras, crews, crowds, and which holes will be better for the competition and considerations such as those. but the holes have to link together in some logical way, they are not going to be skipping all over the place.