Architecture Aficionados: The PGA Tour Wants You!

Do you love golf course architecture? Are you a course designer wannabe? Do you have fantastic ideas on how to lay out a golf hole floating around inside that noggin of yours?

The PGA Tour wants to hear from you. The Tour will even let you design a golf hole for one its of new TPC courses - and if your design impresses Pete Dye, he'll build your golf hole right into his course.

The golf course in question is the AT&T Canyons Course at TPC San Antonio, a 36-hole complex scheduled to open in 2010. Greg Norman is designing one course, which will become the host site of the PGA Tour Texas Open. Dye is designing the other course, which will likely become the host of the Champions Tour stop in San Antonio.

Ground has been broken on both layouts, but the PGA Tour is giving amateur architects the opportunity to submit designs for the 13th hole of Dye's course. Dye and Steve Wenzloff, Vice President of PGA Tour Design Services, Inc., will judge the entries. And the winning entry will become the No. 13 hole. The person whose design is chosen will also get to spend a day on site with Dye.

Want to enter? Visit pgatour.com/tpcdesign and download the entry form, which includes contest rules and submission instructions. Entries must be postmarked by Sept. 12, 2008.

Note that you can't just sketch out something on the back of a napkin. You'll have to put in quite a bit of effort to win: Entries must, the Tour says, "illustrate yardages, tee box, fairway, green and other elements, with a clear scale and topography of the hole. The various elevation levels and angles of the hole should be noted, along with a description of landscaping and other design/environmental factors."