SCOTTSDALE, AZ -- For 51 weeks out of the year, life as a PGA Tour professional is simple enough. They arrive in a city on Monday or Tuesday, get in a couple of practice rounds, and then attempt to play golf better than 130 other guys from Thursday through Sunday.
Sometimes they take a week off. Sometimes they take two. But for the most part, the calendar of a professional golfer is filled with tournaments all across the country - different in name, but all the same in nature.
Except one.
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The Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale is about a 30 minute drive from Sky Harbor International airport in downtown Phoenix.