What’s Better? The 16th at TPC Scottsdale or the 17th at TPC Sawgrass?

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Published: February 27, 2010

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By Kathy Bissell

 

Ask any PGA Tour player about the finishing hole par threes at the TPC Scottsdsale and the TPC Sawgrass and you’ll get an earful.  Are they hard?  Are they fair? Are they fun?  Are they frightening?  

 

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“You’ve going to hear everything from the Bible to the dictionary at the 16th hole.” Ricky Barnes said about what has become one of the most infamous par threes on the PGA Tour, the 16th at the TPC Scottsdale. 

 

“If there's 50,000 people, you can't focus on anything so it doesn't bother you, “ Charley Hoffman explained. “It's just like if everybody's talking, it doesn't bother you.  Obviously I think it would probably be easier on 16 if everybody kept talking instead of the Thunderbirds trying to get everybody quiet. You know what you're walking into when you go into the stadium on 16. It's fun, and you just hope you hit the green so you don't get booed.”

 

At this point in time, players expect that hole to be raucous.  

 

“It's always fun to show up somewhere where you know people are going to be cheering for you,” Camilo Villegas added. “You know it's going to be loud, you know they're going to be -- you're going to get great comments, you're going to get bad comments, and it's like, okay, enjoy the great comments and block the bad ones.”

 

Most players agree that when the noise is a solid roar, it doesn’t bother them as much as that one loud voice.   But according to Kenny Perry, the 16th does take some getting used to.

 

“It was pretty intimidating at first,” Kenny Perry admitted about the 16th.  “You listen to the young kids in the locker room, and a lot...
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