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    Inside the course: Crooked Stick Golf Club

    By PGA TOUR Staff | PGA Tour – Tue, 4 Sep, 2012 4:43 PM EDT

    The TOUR moves to the Indianapolis area for the third week of the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup -- the BMW Championship. Learn more about this week's venue, Crooked Stick Golf Club.

    Fast facts
    Original architect Pete Dye (1964)
    Number of TOUR events as host venue 2 (including 2012)
    Yardage history 7,516 (2012)
    Par value: 72
    Course tour Click here
    Course record
    		 Player
    Ian Woosnam
    John Daly
    Jim Gallagher
    Kenny Knox
    Bob Gilder
    Hal Sutton
    Fred Couples    		 Year
    1991*
    1991
    1991
    1991
    1991
    1991
    1991    		 Round
    1st
    2nd
    4th
    1st
    3rd
    2nd
    2nd    		 Finish
    T48
    WON
    3rd
    4th
    T5
    T7
    T27
    *The 1991 PGA Championship was held at Crooked Stick Golf Club.
    Course origins
    Crooked Stick was Pete Dye's first great golf course design, built in the mid-1960s on flat Indiana farmland that Dye transformed into a links blend pattered after the designs of Alister Mackenzie, Donald Ross and C.B. MacDonald. The course features wide fairways with fair landing areas and demanding approach shots.
    Construction of the frist nine was completed in 1965, with the back nine completed two years later. No consecutive holes are laid out in the same direction and golfers must constantly adjust to wind from a different tack. Long holes are followed by short holes, anhd shots calling for right-to-left flight are followed by shots requiring a left-to-right path. The course is designed to test a player's "poise, courage and intelligence" as well as his or her skill.
    As for where the course gets its unique name, the story goes that Dye was walking the course and picked up a crooked, gnarled stick and swung it at some stones. This inspired the name "Crooked Stick." --www.crookedstick.org
    Tournament course history
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    CourseLocationYears
    Bellerive CC St. Louis, Mo. 1953, 2008
    Beverly CC Chicago, Ill. 1910, 1963, 1967, 1970
    Blue Mound CC Milwaukee, Wisc. 1916
    Blythefield CC Belmont, Mich. 1961
    Brentwood CC Brentwood, Calif. 1950
    Brookfield CC Buffalo, N.Y. 1948
    Butler National GC Oak Brook, Ill. 1974-1990
    Calumet CC Homewood, Ill. 1924
    Canterbury GC Beechwood, Ohio 1932,1937
    CC of Peoria Peoria, Ill. 1934
    Cincinnati GC Cincinnati, Ohio 1905
    Cog Hill G&CC (Dubsdread) Lemont, Ill. 1991-2007, 2009
    Colonial CC Memphis, Tenn. 1923
    Crooked Stick GC Carmel, Ind. 2012
    Davenport CC Davenport, Iowa 1936, 1951
    Euclid Club Euclid, Ohio 1902
    Glen Oak CC Glen Ellyn, Ill. 1915
    Glen View GC Chicago, Ill. 1899
    Highland G&CC Indianapolis, Ind. 1926
    Hinsdale GC Hinsdale, Ill. 1907
    Homewood CC Homewood, Ill. 1906
    Idlewild CC Flossmoor, Ill. 1912
    Indianwood G&CC Lake Orion, Mich. 1930
    Interlachen CC Edina, Minn. 1914
    Keller GC St. Paul, Minn. 1949
    Kent CC Grand Rapids, Mich. 1904, 1911
    Kenwood CC Cincinnati, Ohio 1954
    Mayfield CC Cleveland, Ohio 1919
    Medinah CC Medinah, Ill. 1939, 1962, 1966
    Memphis CC Memphis, Tenn. 1913
    Miami Valley GC Dayton, Ohio 1931
    Midlothian CC Midlothian, Ill. 1901, 1969, 1973
    Milwaukee CC Milwaukee, Wisc. 1903
    Normandie GC St. Louis, Mo. 1908
    North Shore GC Chicago, Ill. 1928
    Oakland Hills CC Birmingham, Mich. 1922
    Oakwood Club Cleveland Heights, Ohio 1921
    Olympia Fields CC Olympia Fields, Ill. 1920, 1927, 1933, 1968, 1971
    Ozaukee CC Mequon, Wisc. 1929
    Phoenix GC Phoenix, Ariz. 1941, 1942
    Pittsburgh Field Club Aspinwall, Pa. 1959
    Plum Hollow GC Southfield, Mich. 1957
    Portland GC Portland, Ore. 1955
    Presidio CC San Francisco, Calif. 1956
    Red Run GC Royal Oak, Mich. 1958
    River Oaks CC Houston, Texas 1940
    Salt Lake City CC Salt Lake City, Utah 1947
    Skokie CC Glencoe, Ill. 1909
    South Bend CC South Bend, Ind. 1935
    Sunset CC St. Louis, Mo. 1946
    Sunset Ridge Winnetka, Ill. 1972
    Tam OShanter CC Niles, Ill. 1964, 1965
    Western G&CC Redford, Mich. 1960
    Westmoreland CC Wilmette, Ill. 1917
    Westwood CC St. Louis, Mo. 1938, 1952
    Youngstown CC Youngstown, Ohio 1925
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