The Players Championship boasts the strongest field in all of golf and is also home to one of, if not the, most iconic holes in all of golf. A great combination, right? Well, let’s just see about that!
Here’s a statistical breakdown of TPC Sawgrass’ par-3 17th for the 2016 Players Championship:
Final round:
- Actual yardage: 130 yards
- Scoring average: 3.05 (13th hardest hole on the course)
- 13 birdies, 50 pars, 9 bogeys and 4 doubles
- Green in regulation: 64/76
- Average distance to the pin: 24 ft
- Closest to the pin: 2 ft 3 in by Adam Scott
- Water balls: 4
- Longest putt: 51 ft by Jamie Lovemark
- One putts: 20
- Three putts: 7
Third round:
- Actual yardage: 129 yards
- Scoring average: 3.316 (6th hardest hole on the course)
- 16 birdies, 37 pars, 13 bogeys, 7 doubles and 3 others
- Green in regulation: 61/76
- Average distance to the pin: 22 ft, 7 in
- Closest to the pin: 6 in by Gary Woodland
- Water balls: 17 (3 by Russell Knox)
- Longest putt: 44 ft, 6 in by Kyle Reifers
- One putts: 20
- Three putts: 9
Second round:
- Actual yardage: 147 yards
- Scoring average: 3.00 (T7 hardest hole on the course)
- 1 hole-in-one, 24 birdies, 99 pars, 12 bogeys and 7 doubles
- Green in regulation: 115/141 (three players withdrew)
- Average distance to the pin: 27 ft, 10 in
- Closest to the pin: Hole-in-one by Will Wilcox
- Water balls: 9
- Longest putt: 36 ft, 3 in by Brooks Koepka
- One putts: 30
- Three putts: 6
Opening round:
- Actual yardage: 123 yards
- Scoring average: 2.861 (14th hardest hole on the course)
- 37 birdies, 96 pars, 5 bogeys and 6 doubles
- Green in regulation: 129/144
- Average distance to the pin: 18 ft, 4 in
- Closest to the pin: 2 ft, 4 in by Byeong-Hun An
- Water balls: 6
- Longest putt: 28 ft, 4 in by Retief Goosen
- One putts: 46
- Three putts: 4