He walked up the fairway and off into the distance, leaving Paul Broadhurst and Richard Bland to debate the tee shot. Quite a few other golfers might like to avoid the hole at this British Open. A 499-yard par 4 this year, the left-to-right dog-leg has played the hardest hole on the course in each of the last two Opens at Birkdale — in 1998 and 2008. In '08, the scoring average was 4.77, making it the second most difficult hole at an Open Championship from 1982-2016 after the 17th at St. Andrews in 1984. Possibly the most famous incident on the hole came in 1998, when Mark O'Meara spent four minutes looking for his ball after his second shot drifted right into knee-high grass.

Source: Fox News July 20, 2017 06:11 UTC