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Resort Palm Beach County

PGA National Resort — The Champion Course

Aerial imagery: Esri World Imagery, centered on this course's mapped coordinates.

Address

400 Avenue of the Champions, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418

Phone

855-440-2876

Website

www.pgaresort.com/golf/courses/champion

Holes

18

Par

72

Yardage

Approximately 7,050–7,080 yards from the back tees (the resort’s own site and other references differ slightly on the exact figure).

Difficulty

Consistently ranked among the toughest courses on the PGA Tour, built around the 15–16–17 stretch known as "the Bear Trap."

Green fees

Resort/package pricing, not a fixed daily rate — call the resort for current rates.

History

Opened November 17, 1981, designed by George and Tom Fazio.

Later redesigned by Jack Nicklaus, whose work produced the Bear Trap stretch (holes 15–17) widely cited as one of the toughest three-hole runs in professional golf. Sources do not agree on the exact year of the Nicklaus redesign, so no year is stated here.

Hosted the 1983 Ryder Cup and the 1987 PGA Championship (won by Larry Nelson), plus the Senior PGA Championship every year from 1982 to 2000.

Has hosted a PGA Tour event every year since 2007 — branded the Honda Classic through 2022, and the Cognizant Classic from 2023 onward.