The Archive
Moments in golf history, on the hole where each one happened.
26 of the shots and finishes golf still talks about, each drawn from the survey like every ISOLINE plate, with the story told on the plate itself. Order one as it is, in the size you want, or open the same hole in the Builder and put your own round on it.
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The Masters
Augusta National, every April since 1934.

1987 · Masters
Larry MizeThe chip at eleven
Augusta National Golf Club · hole 11
Augusta National, the 1987 Masters. The story
Larry Mize, Greg Norman and Seve Ballesteros tied at 285, and Ballesteros dropped out of the playoff at the 10th. At the 11th Mize's approach finished about 140 feet from the hole, and Norman was on the green. Mize chipped, the ball ran along the green and into the hole, and Norman missed his putt to tie. Mize is the only Masters champion born in Augusta.

2005 · Masters
Tiger WoodsThe chip at sixteen
Augusta National Golf Club · hole 16
Augusta National, the final round of the 2005 Masters. The story
Tiger Woods led Chris DiMarco by one when his tee shot at the par-three 16th finished beyond the green. He chipped well up the slope, and the ball curled down toward the hole, stopped on the lip for a long moment and dropped. It was voted in 2019 the greatest shot in Masters history. DiMarco caught him again, and Woods won on the first hole of the playoff with a birdie at the 18th.

2010 · Masters
Phil MickelsonOff the pine straw
Augusta National Golf Club · hole 13
Augusta National, the final round of the 2010 Masters. The story
At the par-five 13th Phil Mickelson's drive finished on pine straw, with two trees in his way and Rae's Creek in front of the green. The safe play was to lay up. He hit a 6-iron through the gap, more than 200 yards, onto the green four feet from the hole. He missed the eagle putt, made birdie, and won his third Masters by three strokes over Lee Westwood.

2012 · Masters
Bubba WatsonThe hook from the trees
Augusta National Golf Club · hole 10
Augusta National, the 2012 Masters. The story
Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen tied, and both parred the 18th to begin the playoff. At the 10th, Watson's drive went right into the woods, with the green hidden behind the trees. Playing from the pine straw he hooked a wedge nearly ninety degrees around them and onto the green, about ten feet away. Oosthuizen made bogey, and Watson, who never had a formal lesson, won with a par.

2019 · Masters
Tiger WoodsThe middle of the green
Augusta National Golf Club · hole 12
Augusta National, the final round of the 2019 Masters. The story
Francesco Molinari led by two at the 12th tee, the short par three over Rae's Creek. His tee shot came up short and rolled back into the water, and Tony Finau's followed. Tiger Woods ignored the flag, hit to the middle of the green and made par. He went on to win by one, his fifth Masters and fifteenth major, eleven years after his last and fourteen after his last green jacket.
The U.S. Open
The national championship, on the hardest courses in the country.

1950 · U.S. Open
Ben HoganThe 1-iron
Merion Golf Club, East · hole 18
Merion, the last hole of the 1950 U.S. The story
Open. In February 1949 Ben Hogan's car was hit head-on by a bus in West Texas, and he was not expected to play again. Sixteen months later he came to the 18th needing a par to tie. He hit a 1-iron to forty feet and two-putted, and Hy Peskin's photograph of that swing became one of the best known pictures in sport. The next day Hogan shot 69 in an 18-hole playoff and beat Lloyd Mangrum by four and George Fazio by six.

1972 · U.S. Open
Jack NicklausThe 1-iron
Pebble Beach Golf Links · hole 17
Pebble Beach, the final round of the 1972 U.S. The story
Open. Into a wind off the ocean, Jack Nicklaus hit a 1-iron at the 17th. It landed on the front of the green, took one bounce, hit the flagstick and stopped inches from the hole. He tapped in for birdie and won by three.

1982 · U.S. Open
Tom WatsonThe chip at seventeen
Pebble Beach Golf Links · hole 17
Pebble Beach, the final round of the 1982 U.S. The story
Open. Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were tied when Watson's 2-iron ran long and left into deep rough beside the 17th green. His caddie, Bruce Edwards, told him to get it close. Watson told him he was going to make it. The sand wedge ran about sixteen feet, hit the flagstick and dropped. He birdied the 18th as well and won by two.

1999 · U.S. Open
Payne StewartFifteen feet for par
Pinehurst No. 2 · hole 18
Pinehurst No. The story
2, the last hole of the 1999 U.S. Open. Payne Stewart drove into the right rough, pitched out and wedged to about fifteen feet. Phil Mickelson had just missed his birdie putt. Stewart's putt for par went in, and he won by one, right arm out and right leg kicked high. He died four months later, on October 25, 1999. His statue stands behind this green.

2000 · U.S. Open
Tiger WoodsBy fifteen
Pebble Beach Golf Links · hole 18
Pebble Beach, the 2000 U.S. The story
Open. Tiger Woods finished at twelve under par, the only player in the field under par, and won by fifteen strokes, then the widest margin in the history of the major championships. His last round was a 67 without a bogey, closed with a par at the 18th.

2002 · U.S. Open
Tiger WoodsThe People's Open
Bethpage Black · hole 18
Bethpage Black, the 2002 U.S. The story
Open, the first played on a publicly owned course. Tiger Woods led after every round and finished at three under, the only player under par. The New York crowd sang happy birthday to Phil Mickelson on his 32nd, and Mickelson finished second. Woods three-putted the 18th as the light went and won by three.

2006 · U.S. Open
Phil MickelsonOne par away
Winged Foot Golf Club, West · hole 18
Winged Foot, the last hole of the 2006 U.S. The story
Open. Phil Mickelson had won the 2005 PGA Championship and the 2006 Masters, and a par at the 18th would have won him this. He hit driver, far left, off a hospitality tent; his second struck a tree; his third plugged in a bunker. He made a double bogey six and finished one behind Geoff Ogilvy. Jim Furyk and Colin Montgomerie also failed to par the hole that would have won it for them.

2008 · U.S. Open
Tiger WoodsTwelve feet
Torrey Pines South · hole 18
Torrey Pines, the 72nd hole of the 2008 U.S. The story
Open. Tiger Woods needed a birdie to tie Rocco Mediate. From a fairway bunker he laid up, wedged to twelve feet, and the putt bumped along and fell in on the side of the cup. They played eighteen more holes on Monday and tied again, and Woods won on the 91st hole. Two days later he disclosed a double stress fracture in his left leg.

2015 · U.S. Open
Jordan SpiethBy one
Chambers Bay · hole 18
Chambers Bay, the 2015 U.S. The story
Open, the 18th played as a par five on Sunday. Jordan Spieth's 3-wood used the slope behind the green, and two putts made his birdie and five under. Dustin Johnson then hit a 5-iron to twelve feet for eagle and the title. The putt ran four feet by, the one back missed, and Spieth won by one.

2017 · U.S. Open
Brooks KoepkaSixteen under
Erin Hills · hole 18
Erin Hills, the 2017 U.S. The story
Open, the first played in Wisconsin. Brooks Koepka birdied 14, 15 and 16 on Sunday, tapped in for par at the 18th, and finished at sixteen under to tie the U.S. Open record to par. He won by four. It was his first major, at 27.
The Open
The oldest championship in golf, played on the links of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.

1953 · The Open
Ben HoganHogan's Alley
Carnoustie, the Championship Course · hole 6
Carnoustie, the 1953 Open Championship, the only Open Ben Hogan ever played. The story
The 6th is a long par five with bunkers in the middle of the fairway and out of bounds down the left. In every round Hogan drove into the thin strip of fairway between them, the shortest way to the green, and the hole has been called Hogan's Alley since. He won by four strokes, and remains the only player to win the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Open in the same year.

1977 · The Open
Tom Watson and Jack NicklausThe Duel in the Sun
Turnberry, Ailsa · hole 18
Turnberry, the final round of the 1977 Open Championship. The story
Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus played the last two days together and finished ten strokes clear of everyone else. At the 18th Watson hit a 7-iron to about two feet. Nicklaus drove into the right rough beside a gorse bush, reached the green, and holed a birdie putt of about thirty-five feet. Watson holed his: 65 to 66, by one.

1984 · The Open
Seve BallesterosOn the lip
The Old Course, St Andrews · hole 18
St Andrews, the final round of the 1984 Open Championship. The story
Seve Ballesteros pitched over the Valley of Sin to about twelve feet. The putt broke from right to left, hung on the lip and dropped, and he turned to the crowd and punched the air, again and again. He won by two over Tom Watson and Bernhard Langer.

1984 · The Open
Tom WatsonAgainst the wall
The Old Course, St Andrews · hole 17
St Andrews, the final round of the 1984 Open Championship. The story
Level with Ballesteros, Tom Watson hit a 2-iron into the Road Hole. It went right and long, across the road, and stopped about two feet from the stone wall. With no room to swing freely he punched a 7-iron to thirty feet and made five. Ballesteros birdied the last and won by two.

1995 · The Open
Costantino RoccaFrom the Valley of Sin
The Old Course, St Andrews · hole 18
St Andrews, the last hole of the 1995 Open. The story
Costantino Rocca needed a birdie to tie John Daly. His chip from the front of the green barely moved, and stayed in the hollow called the Valley of Sin. From sixty-five feet, uphill and across the slope, he holed the putt and fell to the ground with his face in his hands. Daly won the four-hole playoff, but the putt is the one St Andrews remembers.

1999 · The Open
Jean van de VeldeShoes and socks
Carnoustie · hole 18
Carnoustie, the 72nd hole of the 1999 Open Championship. The story
Jean van de Velde stood on the last tee three strokes clear; a six would win. His 2-iron hit the grandstand and kicked back into deep rough. His pitch found the Barry Burn, and he took off his shoes and socks and stood in it before taking a drop. He splashed out of the bunker and holed a putt of about six feet for seven. Paul Lawrie won the playoff.

2016 · The Open
Henrik StensonSixty-three
Royal Troon, the Old Course · hole 18
Royal Troon, the final round of the 2016 Open. The story
Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson started a shot apart, played together, and pulled away from everyone else. Mickelson shot 65 and lost. Stenson shot 63, holed a long putt for birdie at the 15th, and birdied the 18th to finish at 264, twenty under par, an Open record. He was the first Swedish man to win a major.
The PGA, the Ryder Cup and the amateurs
The rest of golf's great days.

1930 · U.S. Amateur
Bobby JonesThe Grand Slam
Merion Golf Club, East · hole 11
Merion, the final of the 1930 U.S. The story
Amateur. Bobby Jones had already won the British Amateur, the Open and the U.S. Open that summer. Against Eugene Homans he went eight up with seven holes to play, and when both players parred the 11th the match was over and the Grand Slam was complete. Jones was 28, and an amateur all his life. He retired from championship golf that year, and later founded Augusta National and the Masters.

1991 · Ryder Cup
Bernhard LangerSix feet
Kiawah Island, the Ocean Course · hole 18
Kiawah Island, the last day of the 1991 Ryder Cup, the edition remembered as the War on the Shore. The story
Everything came down to the final singles match, Bernhard Langer against Hale Irwin, on the 18th green. Langer had a six-foot putt for par to win the hole, tie the overall match at 14 points each and keep the cup for Europe. It slid by the right edge, and the United States won 14½ to 13½.

2010 · PGA Championship
Dustin JohnsonThe bunker
Whistling Straits, the Straits Course · hole 18
Whistling Straits, the last hole of the 2010 PGA Championship. The story
Dustin Johnson led by one on the 18th tee and drove right, into a patch of sand among the spectators. He grounded his club there, not realizing it was one of the hundreds of bunkers on the course, where the rules forbid it. He made what he thought was a bogey to join a playoff; the two-stroke penalty dropped him to a tie for fifth, and Martin Kaymer beat Bubba Watson.

2021 · PGA Championship
Phil MickelsonAt fifty
Kiawah Island, the Ocean Course · hole 18
Kiawah Island, the last hole of the 2021 PGA Championship. The story
Phil Mickelson came to the 18th two strokes clear. His 9-iron from 174 yards finished about fifteen feet right of the flag, and the crowd broke through the ropes and filled the fairway around him. Two putts later he was the oldest major champion, at fifty years and eleven months.
Championship ground
Every championship course we can draw.
221 courses that have held a major, a Ryder Cup, a U.S. Open of any kind or a USGA amateur championship. Open any one of them in the Builder and draw the hole you played, or the one you watched.
England
- Prince'sThe Open 1932
- Royal BirkdaleThe Open 1954, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1983, 1991, 1998, 2008, 2017, 2026
- Royal Cinque PortsThe Open 1909, 1920
- Royal LiverpoolThe Open 1897, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1924, 1930, 1936, 1947, 1956, 1967, 2006, 2014, 2023
- Royal Lytham & St AnnesThe Open 1926, 1952, 1958, 1963, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1988, 1996, 2001, 2012
- Royal St George'sThe Open 1894, 1899, 1904, 1911, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1938, 1949, 1981, 1985, 1993, 2003, 2011, 2021
Scotland
- CarnoustieThe Open 1931, 1937, 1953, 1968, 1975, 1999, 2007, 2018
- MuirfieldThe Open 1892, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1912, 1929, 1935, 1948, 1959, 1966, 1972, 1980, 1987, 1992, 2002, 2013
- MusselburghThe Open 1874, 1877, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889
- PrestwickThe Open 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1872, 1875, 1878, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1890, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1914, 1925
- Royal TroonThe Open 1923, 1950, 1962, 1973, 1982, 1989, 1997, 2004, 2016, 2024
- The Old Course, St AndrewsThe Open 1873, 1876, 1879, 1882, 1885, 1888, 1891, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1921, 1927, 1933, 1939, 1946, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1970, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2022
- TurnberryThe Open 1977, 1986, 1994, 2009
Alabama
- Shoal CreekPGA Championship 1984, 1990; U.S. Women's Open 2018
California
- Los Angeles Country ClubU.S. Open 2023
- Olympic ClubU.S. Open 1955, 1966, 1987, 1998, 2012; U.S. Women's Open 2021
- Pebble Beach Golf LinksU.S. Open 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2010, 2019; PGA Championship 1977; U.S. Women's Open 2023; U.S. Amateur 1961, 1999, 2018
- Riviera Country ClubU.S. Open 1948; PGA Championship 1983, 1995; U.S. Women's Open 2026
- Torrey Pines SouthU.S. Open 2008, 2021; U.S. Amateur Public Links 1998
- Hillcrest Country ClubPGA Championship 1929
- TPC Harding ParkPGA Championship 2020; Presidents Cup 2009; U.S. Amateur Public Links 1937, 1956
- Eldorado Country ClubRyder Cup 1959
- Thunderbird Country ClubRyder Cup 1955
- CordeValleU.S. Women's Open 2016
- Del Paso Country ClubU.S. Women's Open 1982
- San Diego Country ClubU.S. Women's Open 1964
- Edgewood Tahoe Golf CourseU.S. Senior Open 1985; U.S. Amateur Public Links 1980
- Pasatiempo Golf ClubU.S. Women's Amateur 1986; U.S. Senior Women's Amateur 2004
- Singing Hills Golf Club at SycuanU.S. Junior Amateur 1973, 1989
- Rancho Park Golf CourseU.S. Amateur Public Links 1949
New Jersey
- Baltusrol Golf ClubU.S. Open 1903, 1915, 1936, 1954, 1967, 1980, 1993; PGA Championship 2005, 2016; U.S. Women's Open 1961, 1985
- Seaview, the Bay CoursePGA Championship 1942
- Ridgewood Country ClubRyder Cup 1935
- Atlantic City Country ClubU.S. Women's Open 1948, 1965, 1975
- Plainfield Country ClubU.S. Women's Open 1987
- Trump National BedminsterU.S. Women's Open 2017
- Blue Heron Pines Golf ClubU.S. Amateur Public Links 2003
- Flanders Valley Golf CourseU.S. Amateur Public Links 1973; U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links 1985
- Hominy Hill Golf CourseU.S. Amateur Public Links 1983; U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links 1995
New York
- Bethpage BlackU.S. Open 2002, 2009; PGA Championship 2019; Ryder Cup 2025
- Country Club of BuffaloU.S. Open 1912
- Inwood Country ClubU.S. Open 1923; PGA Championship 1921
- Oak Hill Country ClubU.S. Open 1956, 1968, 1989; PGA Championship 1980, 2003, 2013, 2023; Ryder Cup 1995
- Shinnecock Hills Golf ClubU.S. Open 1896, 1986, 1995, 2004, 2018, 2026
- Winged Foot Golf ClubU.S. Open 1929, 1959, 1974, 1984, 2006, 2020; PGA Championship 1997; U.S. Women's Open 1957, 1972
- Engineers Country ClubPGA Championship 1919
- Pelham Country ClubPGA Championship 1923
- Siwanoy Country ClubPGA Championship 1916
- Country Club of RochesterU.S. Women's Open 1953, 1973
- Sebonack Golf ClubU.S. Women's Open 2013
- Bethpage BlueU.S. Amateur Public Links 1936
- Grover Cleveland Golf CourseU.S. Amateur Public Links 1926
Pennsylvania
- Merion Golf ClubU.S. Open 1934, 1950, 1971, 1981, 2013
- Oakmont Country ClubU.S. Open 1927, 1935, 1953, 1962, 1973, 1983, 1994, 2007, 2016, 2025; PGA Championship 1922, 1951, 1978; U.S. Women's Open 1992, 2010
- Philadelphia Country ClubU.S. Open 1939
- Philadelphia Cricket Club, St. MartinsU.S. Open 1907, 1910
- Aronimink Golf ClubPGA Championship 1962, 2026
- Hershey Country ClubPGA Championship 1940
- Laurel Valley Golf ClubPGA Championship 1965; Ryder Cup 1975
- Llanerch Country ClubPGA Championship 1958
- Pittsburgh Field ClubPGA Championship 1937
- Shawnee InnPGA Championship 1938
- Bala Golf ClubU.S. Women's Open 1952
- Kahkwa ClubU.S. Women's Open 1971
- Lancaster Country ClubU.S. Women's Open 2015, 2024
- Moselem Springs Golf ClubU.S. Women's Open 1968
- Rolling Green Golf ClubU.S. Women's Open 1976
- Saucon Valley Country ClubU.S. Women's Open 2009
- North Park Golf CourseU.S. Amateur Public Links 1965