TPC Sawgrass - Dye's Valley Course

Nothing special greens were beat up and course layout didn't excite me

After playing the "icon" last year in the Stadium Course on my return to the area this year I made it a point to go back and see what the Valley course had to offer. Yes it does not get the hoopla that it's big brother gets but as for a golf course design, difficulty is there ,scenery is everywhere, greens are great, and overall conditions were fine for winter months. I would love to play this place in full season for grasses. Anyways think about your handicap before you start and don't think this is a push because it has no bleachers or island. The design offers many challenges based on placement of water, bunkers both fairways and greenside. Fairways are fair and have many pot type bunkers of grass and moguls for challenging your stance. Greens were rolling just fine and my est. would be about 11 on the meter. This part of TPC offers much more serenity, plenty of world class treatment and golf that you will enjoy and remember. I highly recommend that if you play Stadium you should also play the Valley to take in everything Pete Dye and the PGA has to offer you.

Hardest course that I've ever played. Pete dye punishes you when you hit a bad shot. Forecaddie helped because of the cart path only rule. They take very good care of the course and the conditions are perfect. Also the staff are very helpful and kind

Nice course - great greens and difficult. Requires a solid tee ball put in play each hole -otherwise the 3rd cut rough will eat the ball alive. I played 3.5 weeks before the Web.com championship and after a week of 13+ inches of rain - there was no roll and the rough was already tall being grown out and lack of mowing due the rain.

Overall all I like the course but didn't expect to see so many houses.

This course has a great layout, however the course was so wet, the "cart paths only" rule was in effect. It was so wet that balls were plugging in the fairways and roughs. The course was almost unplayable. However, the greens fee was not discounted to compensate for the poor playing conditions.

You are paying for the TPC name at this one. While everything about the course is nice, and there will be memories as you roll up to the famed clubhouse and snap pictures around the grounds, the golf is simply not worth the price.

The Dye Valley course is a nice challenge that is more forgiving than the Stadium course. The greens weren't as consistent as the Stadium course. The grain wasn't as defined and made putt reading less obvious. Not easy to determine which way grain was heading. That actually took the grain out of many of the putts. The fairways leave room for error. You can play away from trouble if you have reasonable control of you shots. Its a nice compliment to the Stadium course and I would play it anytime I am down there to play the Stadium course.

I don't get a chance to play high end courses very often, so I was really excited about playing the Valley course. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. To start with, there was heavy equipment operating and construction going on virtually every hole, cart paths were blocked with no clear indication of where to drive your carts or move about the course. The course conditions themselves were only fair with the grass cut right down to the dirt, and as slick of greens as I have ever played on. I probably drove by 5 or 6 courses on the way that were less than half as expensive, and in better shape. I really expected a lot more, and I think the staff should have been up front about course conditions and all of the construction going on.

Very disappointed that the staff at the clubhouse or the starter didn't bother to mention that there was ongoing construction on almost every hole. Machinery running everywhere, workers around several greens. Cart paths blocked and no signage or even a clue about which way to go in some places. Greens and fairways were not in the best of condition, even allowing for it being mid-February. Definitely a challenging layout and it could have been fun to play on some other day but I'll spend my dollars elsewhere next time.

So disappointing! Our public county course is in better condition...and 1/3 the price! The Valley course will be undergoing renovations in March. Not true. The course is already under renovation with construction on 4 holes. At least 6 other greens were extremely thin. The only green color on the course was the tee boxes and greens.... probably not watering. They clearly are not keeping up the course in preparation for the major repairs. Too make it worse they are still charging full rates! We stayed at the resort and spent a lot of money for our special golf trip. Guess the surprise was on us! NOT WORTH IT!

Each of the three times I came off the Stadium course at the TPC Sawgrass, I swore I might quit the game. Every time I played the Valley, I vowed I'll play more often. That's the difference between the two TPC courses at Sawgrass. The Stadium is a modern monster; the Valley course a fun and enjoyable experience. All of the troubles lurks to one side, right or left, giving average players like me a chance to bail out if necessary. The Valley doesn't have the epic finish of the Stadium course, but that's probably a good thing. The Valley is good enough to host pro tournaments without all the dirty tricks of Pete and Alice Dye.

Most people know about the Stadium Course, but the Valley Course isn't too shabby either. Also designed by Pete Dye, there's lots of water hazards, lush turf and tour level challenge, since it does host a Web.com event. The difference is that it's not nearly as hard as the Stadium Course. It also costs a lot less to play. If you're making the trip to the resort, you owe it to yourself to play both courses.

This course is the best course I have played in Jax, and I've played every one (except stadium course). Tee boxes are taken very good care of. Fairways are beautiful, narrow, and have a lot of hills making it very difficult, but fun! The rough is unpredictable, you can either be buried or on top, which makes for a great challenge. Bunkers are very well taken care of, nice soft sand, not hard and compact. Last, but not least, the greens are amazing, soft enough to stick the ball or spin it and firm enough to get a good roll when needed. I wish players took care of the greens though, they left a lot of divots, I fixed about 4 every hole, not the ground keepers fault at all. And customer service was awesome, very friendly staff!

course was in great shape even though it had just been overseeded. greens were a little slow but rolled fairly true. rest of course in great shape.

Sawgrass Dye's Valley course, definitely treated like the second class course, staff were cordial, no course information given by starter! No GPS or course planners, so played it blind!! Greens recently dressed, absolutely no chance of putting and greensmen watering greens whilst teeing off (par 3s) and whilst playing second shots into greens, very dangerous and off putting !

What a great day of golf! The staff was so friendly and pleasant. We say "unforgiving" in that if you go off the fairway, you may never find your ball. If you do, it won't be easy to get it back on track.

First time playing Dye's Valley, after having played Stadium Course numerous times. Have often heard that Dye's Valley is slightly more difficult, but would not quite agree with that assessment. On its own merit, a fine golf course with sufficient challenge and excellent condition, although green speed was a bit slower than expected. I would recommend Dye's Valley Course without hesitation, but consider Stadium Course to be superior in all respects. Overall rating would be 4.5 if possible, but round down to "4" since fractions are not possible.

I played in the Pro-Am for the Winn-Dixie Open at Dye's Valley in 2012 and expected the conditions to be similar. I couldn't have been more dissappointed.

The tee boxes, fairways, and greens were recently aerated and there was sand everywhere. I don't qutie undertand why TPC would even allow people to play when the course is in this type of condition. $89 was much too high for what I experienced.

We played the Stadium course the day before and Dye's Valley Course is just as incredible. It has all the normal Pete Dye touches you would expect. The layout was challenging and visually impressive. The staff treated us as if we were 30 year members to the course. Play here if you get the chance.

This is the first big name course ive played and definitely one of the more challenging and impressive layouts. That being said, for all the tout given to these two courses (Dye Valley and the Stadium) this one was not as well maintained as i would have expected.. Fairways were in good condition but not pristine, greens were good but mediocre when compared to other courses and maybe its just me but on a course like this i wouldnt expect to have to walk around the fairways searching for distance markers on sprinkler heads.. (No visual markers. i thought every course had at least a 150 yrd marker visible..) Overall i give it 31/2 - 4 stars because the layout is that good and i still think it was a great deal for $59.