The 10 highest single-hole scores on No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass

It’s in the unique category of golf conversations, where one only needs to mutter “Island Green,” and the person or persons will immediately understand where they’re headed-No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass. Few holes in golf are as famous, a mistake (it …

Zac Blair, 2017: 9

(Golfweek)

Blair rounds out the crowed list of quintuple-bogies on the 17th, but he added a little…um…flare…to his nine. After hitting his first shot into the water during the second round of the 2017 Players, Blair refused to hit from the drop area, instead choosing to tee it up again from the tee box. Again: water-bound. Then, he did it again. (I’d like to think Kevin Costner saw this and smiled.) Unlike Russell Knox the previous year, however, Blair kept going at it from the tee. On his fourth attempt from the tee (laying seven), Blair, with his new fan base behind him, landed his shot on the green. He would two-putt for a crowd-pleasing nine. The group he was paired with—Blayne Barber and Tyrone Van Aswegan—also hit balls in the water, totaling five for the trio.