Private · 18 holes
Firestone Country Club - South Course
Akron, OH
About this course
Firestone Country Club's South Course is a private club in Akron, Ohio, built for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company employees. Bert Way designed the original course in 1929, and Robert Trent Jones Sr. reworked it in 1960 ahead of its rise as a regular PGA Tour stop. It plays through a parkland setting of mature trees, narrow fairways, and deep bunkering that rewards precise shotmaking over length off the tee.
The South Course has hosted more than 70 professional tournaments, including three PGA Championships and 18 years of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, and it now hosts the PGA Tour Champions' Kaulig Companies Championship. Its par-5 16th, nicknamed The Monster by Arnold Palmer after a triple bogey there in the 1960 PGA Championship, remains one of the most recognized closing holes in the game. Tiger Woods closed out the 2000 WGC-NEC Invitational with an 8-iron approach on the 18th that has become one of his signature shots.
Firestone is a private club, and the South Course is one of three 18-hole courses on the property along with the North Course and the Fazio Course. Access runs through club membership or a stay-and-play package at the resort; there is no public daily-fee access.
Type
Parkland
Region
Midwest
Holes
18
Par
70
Yardage
7,400
Established
1929
Course rating
76.2
Slope
141
LooperScore
91.3
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Design & architects
- Bert Way, architect
- Robert Trent Jones Sr, architect
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