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The most infamous opening at TPC Sawgrass is the island green, standard 3 seventeenth. It has been a long time since it appeared at the Players Championship.

In 1982, North Carolina was still school ball's prevailing proficient establishment; baseball legend Cal Ripken was ready to play his first full 162-game season for the Baltimore Orioles; and The Players Championship moved to a wild and emotional new course emerged from swampland, TPC Sawgrass. 안전놀이터

We have seen numerous important completions at The Players throughout the most recent 40 years. Tiger Woods, pick one; Hal Sutton and "Be the raht club tew-day!"; Craig (We Barely Knew Ya) Perks and his thrilling chip-ins; Rickie Fowler's season finisher stones; Fred Couples, two times; Paul Goydos losing a season finisher to Sergio Garcia; Len Mattiace's unfortunate misfortune at the standard 3 seventeenth opening; Fuzzy Zoeller's white towel that emblematically chilled Greg Norman after a sizzling 24-under standard execution. And that's just the beginning.

None could top that first version of The Players in 1982. It had everything, beginning with an incredible victor - Jerry Pate, as gifted as anybody in golf for a couple of years. It was brilliant with shading - Pate won The Players with an orange Wilson ball. (Wayne Levi beat Pate to the set of experiences books by being quick to win a PGA Tour occasion with an orange ball prior in 1982 when he caught the Hawaiian Open.)

It had a stunning finale. In an extraordinary, not-completely arranged trick, Pate pushed the PGA Tour chief and the course architect into the lake at 18 and made a plunge himself. Who could want more, sir, not including that eager Oliver kid from the Broadway melodic? The Sawgrass debut was incredible theater and, surprisingly, better TV.

As we head for one more visit to Sawgrass, here are a few notes from the 1982 Players, or as it was known then, at that point, the Tournament Players Championship:

Ground Control to Major Deane
Dan Jenkins, the twentieth century's best sportswriter and furthermore one of its incredible conservatives behind that humorously sarcastic front, announced The Players Championship a significant after its absolute first release at Sawgrass. Here's important for his lead passage from Sports Illustrated then, at that point:

"Assuming Pete Dye is the Leonardo of green draftsmen, Jerry Pate is doubtlessly the Esther Williams of visiting professionals, and both of them pooled their gifts last week to raise the Tournament Players Championship into one of golf's significant occasions. Call it the game's fifth major assuming that you like… however the truth of the matter is, the player with the best swing and the most potential in the game today, Jerome K. Pate, went out and Ben Hoganed the tar out of the most requesting new design in this present reality, winning the TPC against the hardest field you might have collected today. Also, on the off chance that this doesn't make the TPC a significant title, then, at that point, Jerry Pate, Tour Commissioner Deane Beman and Dye can't swim a stroke."

The scorecard: It's difficult to accept the late Jenkins' excitement since, in such a case that another person composed that, I can hear him (in my mind) offering something like, "On the off chance that Hogan didn't win it, it's anything but a significant."