The tournament is played on the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West, the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West and La Quinta Country Club. Golfers play one round at each of the three for the first three rounds, then after the 54-hole cut the final round is on the Stadium Course.

“It is tough. It’s not, obviously it isn’t something we’re used to,” Justin Thomas said during his Wednesday pre-tournament media session. “Although the courses are different. La Quinta is very different than, I would say, the courses here, but they all have the same general idea, that you need to make a lot of birdies, and you need to be aggressive. They’re very scorable, so I take the same mindset into all of the courses, it’s just, you’re standing on the tee thinking, ‘How am I going to make birdie, and what’s the best way for me to do that.'”

Here’s a closer look at the three venues.

La Quinta Country Club

Opened in 1959 with a course designed by Lawrence Hughes, La Quinta Country Club tends to offer the best scoring opportunities in the American Express, with a 67.905 scoring average last year. Four holes at La Quinta were among the 25 easiest holes on the PGA Tour in 2024. It’s the only private course in the rotation. It measures 7,060 yards with a par of 72.