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CLUBHOUSE:

77,000 square foot clubhouse is:
• 40 percent larger than the White House at 55,000 square feet

The new clubhouse at the TPC Sawgrass is bigger than the White House. (Stan Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)

11,000 square foot event lawn over looking Nos. 9 and 18 is large enough to hold:
• 4 tennis courts

63,000 square feet of Spanish tile were used on the roof -- totaling 612,000 pounds, which is equivalent to:
• 2 Boeing 747s
• Over 300 African elephants

460 tons of steel was used in the clubhouse (330 tons of structural steel and 130 tons of rebar, steel in concrete) is enough to:
• Build 100 armored trucks

Over 2600 cubic yards of concrete laid to date would be almost enough to:
• Fill an Olympic-size swimming pool

GOLF COURSE:

26,600 tons of sand were used in reconstructing the Pete Dye Stadium Course (tees and fairways), which is:
• Enough to fill 10,000 sand boxes

2,600,000 square feet of new grass areas on the Stadium course would cover:
• 60 acres
• 40 city blocks

116,600 linear feet of underground pipe was laid on the Stadium Course, which is equivalent to:
• 22 miles
• Enough to stretch from TPC Sawgrass to the World Golf Hall of Fame

5,000 linear feet of new bulk head surrounding the lakes is equivalent to:
• 1 mile

19 acres of sod were used across the property, which is equivalent to:
• 12 city blocks

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