The Yards: Home to the 'world's largest skins game'
Friday skins games at the 15-hole course just down the road from the TPC Sawgrass' Stadium Course are no less pressure packed than at this week's Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida — One can only imagine the pressure staring at the island green with a one-shot lead in the final round of the Players Championship. Contrast that with the nerves an amateur feels right down the road with a $3,000 skin on the line.
One of golf’s upstart alternative experiences is virtually in the shadows of the famed Stadium Course championship venue, where the self-proclaimed "largest skins game in the world" takes place every Friday, with as many as 120 golfers from the region gathering for some dynamic par-3 fun at a place simply called The Yards.
Golfers travel up to 50 miles across the Jacksonville area to try their luck at golf’s biggest lottery. The Yards' largest skins payout has been $3,200 in the game’s brief history, and most of the time there is a waiting list now to participate…