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Every golf fan has heard the raucous crowds on TV at TPC Scottsdale’s 16th hole, where thousands of over-served spectators sit or stand for hours waiting for their favorite players at the biggest party in golf, the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
The short par 3 is enclosed by a temporary grandstand that seats 20,000 fans, and the pros generally love it or hate it.
“I love it, but it’s as annoying as hell. I think of playing the 16th the whole tournament,” says Emiliano Grillo.
If the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale is on a golf fans’ bucket list for must-see-in-person tournament golf, what are some of the others? The Road Hole at St. Andrews? The Island Green at TPC Sawgrass?
Here’s a few of our choices for bucket-list holes you should get to in person if you ever get the chance:
17th hole, Old Course, St. Andrews
Par 4, 495 yards
There’s a blind tee shot over the old faux coal sheds outlined by the boundary fence for the Old Course Hotel. Too often the road becomes a resting place for wayward approach shots. The perched green wraps around the Road Hole Bunker, the one must-avoid spot on the course.