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The Golf Channel's Smylie Kaufman recreated Scottie Scheffler's 2024 shot on no. 4 at TPC Sawgrass, when he holed out en route to a Players Championship victory.
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The Champion Course at PGA National is known for challenging even the game’s most elite players. The 3-hole stretch from 15-16-17, better know as the “Bear Trap,” has changed the fate of tournaments over the years but where does it rank on Tour as the hardest run of consecutive holes? And is it even the most challenging 3-hole stretch on the course or does that honor belong to holes 5, 6 and 7? Golf Channel’s Paige Mackenzie shares her insights.
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Tom D’Angelo, who has been covering sports in Florida since 1981 for The Palm Beach Post, talks with Golf Channel’s Steve Burkowski and Ryan Lavner about the history of the Cognizant Classic, what it has meant to generations of fans, and its current place in the hierarchy of professional golf.