The bridge on the signature 16th hole dedicated to Payne Stewart’s comeback victory at the 1991 Open will now be encountered on the seventh. Jim Furyk got up and down from the bunker next to the 18th green to win the title in 2010. “I thought it was unique, an iconic hole, in the fact that it’s a par 3,” he said. This past summer, though, the United States Women’s Open was held there, and organizers opted to keep the nines in their normal place but then turned the fourth hole into the first hole for that week only. For those who find the whole thing a bit confusing, there is at least one course in the United States that tries to make the issue moot.

Source: New York Times September 23, 2016 19:39 UTC