TPC Potomac at Avenel Farms, site of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour, opened in 1986 with a design by Ed Ault, Tom Clark and Ed Sneed. The course was dramatically renovated in 2007 by Steve Wenzloff and Jim Hardy.
TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm is hosting this week’s Tour event that normally is played at Quail Hollow in North Carolina, which later this year will be the site of the Presidents Cup. Near Washington D.C., TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm is the former site of the PGA Tour’s Kemper Open (also branded the Booz Allen Classic for a time) and the Quicken Loans National. It also hosted the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship (2010) and the Korn Ferry Tour’s Mid-Atlantic Championship (2012-13).
TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm ranks No. 9 on Golfweek’s Best list of private courses in Maryland.
Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week. Check out the maps of each hole below.