From the 50th state, we travel across the Pacific to our 48th state, Arizona, for this stop on the Pléiades 1 Golf Course of the Month. Stepping back on to the US PGA Tour, this month we feature The Golf Club at Dove Mountain, Marana, Arizona, which is the site of the 16th World Golf Championship Accenture Match Play Championship. Dove Mountain has been the event’s home since 2009 and is the third venue to host the Match Play Championship. Held from February 17th to the 23rd, the event features the top 64 golfers in the world (according to the Official World Golf Rankings) with a $1.5 million pay out to the winner.
Dove Mountain is a relatively new Jack Nicklaus designed golf course featuring 27-holes situated along the picturesque foothills of the Tortolita Mountain Range. The course’s greens are Bentgrass with Bermuda and perennial rye over-seeded tees, fairways and roughs. Dove Mountain is divided into three Par 36 nine hole courses: Saguaro, Tortolita and Wild Burro. For the Accenture Match Play Championship, Saguaro serves as the front nine with Tortolita as the back nine. In all, the tournament course plays 7,833 yards with the Par 5 11th hole the longest at 601 yards and the Par 3 6th Hole the shortest at 185 yards.
In the fifteen years of the event, there have been two repeat winners, Paul Casey (2009, 2010) and Davis Love III (2004, 2006). Other notable winners include Tiger Woods (2000), Rory McIlroy (2012) and last year’s winner, Hunter Mahan.
Who will it be this year to get their early PGA Tour season off to a good start?
While you ponder this question, sit back and enjoy the high-resolution Pléiades 1 views of this course!
A 50-cm color image of The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona collected on October 9, 2012 by Pléiades 1A. To see this course in 1.5-meter resolution, check out this month’s feature on SPOTMaps. Image photo enhanced by Apollo Mapping. © CNES 2012, Distribution Astrium Services / Spot Image S.A., France, all rights reserved.The Pléiades 1 High-Resolution Satellite Constellation
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