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The 20-foot deep bunker to the left of the green on the par-5 16th hole at the Pete Dye Stadium Course is best known for perplexing Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill during the 1987 American Express tournament.
O’Neill was so exasperated trying to get out of the bunker, he eventually grabbed his ball and threw it up the hill – twice.
PGA Tour rookie William Mouw had his own moment of frustration on the hole Friday.
Mouw, 24 and a Korn Ferry Tour graduate from 2024, was 6 under in his first American Express tournament when he came to the hole, known as San Andreas Fault. He left 2-over par after recording a 13 on the hole.
Worse still, Mouw managed to get out of the dreaded bunker twice only to put the ball back into the bunker.
Mouw started by hitting his second shot on the par-5 into the greenside bunker. His next shot cleared the wall of dormant grass, but also cleared the entire green. His fourth shot rolled beyond the green and back into the deep bunker. He failed to get his fifth or sixth shot out of the bunker, but his seventh shot did make it over the hill. But again, Mouw was over the green, and his eighth shot down to the firm and fast green again rolled past the pin, off the green and into the bunker.
This time, Moux changed the angle of his shot to go out toward the front of the green in 9. His 10th shot rolled over the green into a grass swale, from where he chipped down well past the pin again, leaving a 65-foot, 5-inch putt. Mouw two-putted, the last from just over two feet, for the score of 13.
Mouw followed that octuple bogey with a triple bogey on the par-3 17th that itself has an island green, hitting two shots into the water. He finished with a round of 9-over 81, putting him 5-over 149 for 36 holes. He had opened with a 68 on the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West.
This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: PGA Tour rookie William Mouw makes a 13 on one hole at American Express
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