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 …

 Phil Blackmar, 1990: 10

(Golfweek)

During the same round of the 1990 Players Championship that saw Roger Maltbie card a nine on the 17th, Phil Blackmar one-upped his colleague and carded a 10. As Blackmar tells it, his 9-iron skipped over the back of the green (the pin was in the back that day), and it landed in the water. Frustrated, he hit a wedge on his second shot, which also found the water. Sans tee, Blackmar then cranked a ball into the 16th fairway—a safe, but crazy play—and eventually got on the green. A few lackadaisical putts later, and Blackmar had rewritten the Island Green History Book.