TPC Sawgrass, Championship golf course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

TPC Sawgrass is a golf course in Ponte Vedra Beach in northeastern Florida with two championship courses on about 415 acres of swampland. The main course is the Stadium Course with 18 holes, narrow fairways and fast greens between natural marshes and sand bunkers.

Paul and Jerome Fletcher negotiated the deal that gave 415 acres of northeastern Florida swampland to the PGA Tour for $1; the original check is displayed in the clubhouse. The course opened in autumn 1980 as the first Tournament Players Club, and the Stadium Course, designed by Pete and Alice Dye, hosted The Players Championship from 1982. Heavy rain delayed its debut by a year, and after player complaints Dye softened the greens and replaced bunkers.

The par-3 17th hole with its water-surrounded green draws spectators from around the world who gather on elevated grass mounds. These built-up viewing areas offer stadium-like sightlines and turn the tournament into an experience for thousands at once.

The course lies about a mile west of the Atlantic in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. The 17th is a par-3 of 137 yards (125 m) with a 78-foot (24 m) green and a small bunker in front; wind swirls over it because of the surrounding trees, so club choice matters. A small path is the only land link to the green.

The 17th was meant to be an ordinary par 3 partly beside a lake, but sand dug from the area for course construction left a large crater. Alice Dye proposed surrounding the green with water, and Pete Dye, though unenthusiastic, built it. A small path still links the green to land, so it is technically a peninsula. Golf Channel stations eleven cameras on it during the tournament.