TPC Stonebrae, formerly TPC San Francisco Bay, is an American links style golf course and private

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located at Stonebrae Country Club in the hills above

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on the eastern side of the

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. TPC Stonebrae Country Club is currently the newest Country Club in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a top 10 course rating in Northern California. Stonebrae Country Club opened in 2007. The following year, the David McLay Kidd designed championship

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became part of the

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network operated by the

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and was rebranded as the TPC San Francisco Bay and then the TPC Stonebrae. It is owned and operated by YCS Investments, an investment company of the family behind

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. Upon opening in 2007, TPC Stonebrae has received the following awards: "Northern California’s Best New Course" (''LINKS Magazine, 2007), "''One of the Best New Golf Courses" (''Travel + Leisure Golf, 2007), "6th Best New Private Course in America" (Golf Digest, 2008),'' 2015 National Private Course Winner for Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards (ELGA) presented by Golf Digest, Merit Winner for Private Facility – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards (ELGA)). From 2008 until 2019, TPC Stonebrae was the host venue for the variously named Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae, a tournament on the

Korn Ferry Tour The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. Th ...

. The event was not held in 2013 due to the construction of a new clubhouse. In 2014 the club opened a new 32,000 sq. foot Clubhouse that was named as 2014's "2nd Best New Clubhouse in the World" by Golf INC Magazine. In 2016 at the

Ellie Mae Classic The Ellie Mae Classic was a golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. It was first played in 2009 at TPC Stonebrae (previously known as Stonebrae Country Club), in Hayward, California. The inaugural event had a prize fund of $600,000 with $108,000 ...

at TPC Stonebrae, Stephan Jaeger set the 18 hole scoring record of 58 at a

sanctioned event in the first round of the Ellie Mae Classic and the lowest 72 Hole Tournament aggregate score in history at a PGA Tour sanctioned event. in 2017 at the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae, Stephen Curry of the

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, received a Sponsors Exemption into the Tournament. During his professional golf debut, Stephen Curry recorded first and second round scores of 74. Curry returned to play in the 2018 event, again missing the cut with scores of 71-86.

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