The Players Championship returns this week and I return to an eye-catching graphic that was shared by Garrett Morrison last year, displaying a dispersion of where tee shots had landed on the infamous island green, No. 17, for the day’s pin position, at the front-left. Six golfers, yes, had splashed down. More noticeable were the number of balls that “miraculously” came to rest on the edge of oblivion.
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