This week, the PGA TOUR is in sunny San Diego for the 2017 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. It also marks the first start of Tiger Woods in 2017, who officially announced his joining of TaylorMade Golf today. He returns to a very familiar venue, where he won eight times, including his last Major title at the 2008 US Open Championship. The course has gone through some changes since his last victory here though. See below for more from the PGA TOUR:
For 51 weeks out of the year, Torrey Pines belongs to the golfing public that regularly logs over 170,000 rounds annually between the North and South courses. The other week out of the year, the course is home to the Farmers Insurance Open — a PGA TOUR event it has hosted annually since 1968. From a course design standpoint, the North and South remained relatively unchanged until 2001 when Rees Jones redesigned the South prior to it being selected to host the 2008 U.S. Open.
The North, on the other hand, remained frozen in time until last year when the City of San Diego hired course architect and 1973 Open Championship winner, Tom Weiskopf, to oversee a $12.6 million redesign of William F. Bell’s original 1957 layout. Weiskopf’s work included a complete rebuild of the greens and nearly every bunker on the course.
In the video above, hear from the Weiskopf about the changes he’s made and see the spectacular views and setting that the players will get to face this week.
Source: PGA TOUR
