Toughest Drive

18th hole (par 4, 484 yards)

Fear factor: OB on the right, deep bunkers on both sides pinching the landing area and dense rough. The good news for Phil Mickelson: no trees left!

How the pros should play it: "It's a classic U.S. Open tee shot, looking at the clubhouse, hitting down to a fairway that climbs back up. Everything pitches to the right. Drawing it is the best way to hold the fairway, and it's critical to finish in the short stuff because there's a quasicross-bunker up ahead."
— Brad Faxon, eight-time PGA Tour winner and low amateur at the 1983 U.S. Open at Oakmont

Average Joe: "Feeling pressure to break 100, I slotted a drive between the bunkers, then scooted a skinny 3-wood to the front apron, 30 feet below the hole. I three-jacked for bogey, just as Larry Nelson did at the 72nd hole in the 1983 U.S. Open. Nelson shot 67; I shot 96."