We’ve always been a high-end resort but now there’s even more accountability because we’re a TPC
in 1958, the resort and its original four courses hosted For all of its history, TPC Dorado Beach’s future is PGA TOUR tournaments and entertained the likes of even more exciting, especially for TPC members. John F. Kennedy, Ava Gardner, and Elizabeth Taylor, “We’ve always been a high-end resort, but now there’s to name just a few. In the process it established itself even more accountability because we’re a TPC property,” as the region’s finest resort and a Caribbean home says Jeff Willenberg, Director of Golf at TPC Dorado Beach. for world leaders, VIPs, and serious golfers. One of “While we haven’t made many changes to our philosophies— those, Puerto Rican golf legend Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, providing excellent services at the hotel and golf course—I got an early start here, first as a caddie and later as think that in the eyes of the guests, the TPC logo means a the club’s longtime pro. Flamboyant and charitable, the lot, and they’ve made that known to us. World Golf Hall of Fame member earned eight wins It’s a higher standard and so you have to ask every day, on the PGA TOUR and 22 more on what is now the ‘Is this TPC-worthy or is it not?’ We’re considered a very Champions Tour. In 1964, he battled Doug Sanders here in high-level course and hotel, so people that are coming in are Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf, which Chi Chi won with already expecting high-end facilities, but even more so now.” a score of three under. Sam Snead made a mark here as well, For many, those facilities begin and end with the golf, teaming up with Jimmy Demaret in the 1961 Canada Cup which is in great shape and only getting better. In 2011, after (World Cup of Golf), which the duo won over Australians years of relative quiet, the property was returned to form Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson. when another Trent Jones restored the club’s crown jewel,
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