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A look at the par-3 17th hole at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass Stadium Course, site of THE PLAYERS Championship, March 20-26:

The crowds that enjoy the 17th hole at Sawgrass number in the thousands. (Stan Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)

1: The number of holes-in-one for par made here in 20 years of THE PLAYERS. Fred Couples hit his first shot in the water in the first round of the 1999 tournament, then re-teed and flew a 9-iron into the hole for a par.

2: Of the 25 winners of THE PLAYERS here, only two winners have made a bogey on the 17th hole on Sunday, Steve Elkington in 1991 and Fred Funk in 2005. Of these winners, 13 have made par, nine have made birdie and two made bogeys.

2: The number of unique manned cameras placed by NBC on the 17th hole. A cameraman is lifted by a crane120 feet into the air above the trees from right of the 16th fairway where his camera has a clear view of 16, 17 and 18. Another cameraman is ferried to the island right of the 17th green where he is marooned for approximately eight hours to get reactions from the 17th tee and operate the super-slow-motion camera.

4: Depth, in feet, of water around the island green.

4: The number of times per year divers enter the pond to extract golf balls. Divers are hired to enter the water hazards on the course in January, April, July and October, taking two days each time. The TPC Sawgrass pays 7 cents per ball, and the balls are resold.

6: The number of holes-in-one made here in 25 years of THE PLAYERS. They include: Brad Fabel, 1986, first round; Brian Claar, 1991, third round; Fred Couples, 1997, fourth round; Joey Sindelar, 1999, first round; Paul Azinger, 2000, third round; and Miguel Angel Jimenez, 2002, first round.

8: Including 2007, the number of consecutive years where PGATOUR.com has broadcast LIVE@17 during the first two rounds. In 2007, all four rounds are scheduled to be shown. Every shot by every player is captured, with commentary by a rotating group of broadcasters and former TOUR players. "Everybody on the Internet is watching and they have always got a camera there," Chris DiMarco said. "Whoever does make the big number on that hole is just overplayed on every sports channel all over the world. There's so much that goes with that hole."

10: The number of cameras that NBC utilizes on the hole during its telecast, including a microscopic lens imbedded in the lip of the tiny front. NBC uses 42 cameras for the entire tournament.

12: The score posted by Bob Tway in the third round of the 2005 PLAYERS, with winds blowing 25-30 mph. Tway's tee shot flew the green, as did his second shot. His third and fourth shots hit on the front of the green and spun back in the water. His fifth attempt found the green, he three-putted and totaled a 12. He went from four strokes out of the lead at 7-under par to 13 behind. Robert Gamez held the record previously, an 11 (four balls in the water) in the third round of the 1990 PLAYERS

55: Square footage of the front bunker, the smallest of 92 bunkers on the course.

66: The score posted by Angelo Spagnolo, a 31-year-old grocery store manager from Fayette City, Pa., on June 19, 1985, in "America's Worst Avid Golfer" contest. Spagnolo hit 27 balls in the water from the tee box and drop area. Rules officials finally directed him to putt around the hazard and down the narrow path that leads to the green. Former PGA TOUR Commissioner Deane Beman dubbed the path "Angelo's Alley." Spagnolo shot 257 to "win" the title in the Golf Digest-sponsored event.

75: Yardage to the center of the green from the drop area.

101: The number of tee shots, among 1,650 attempts (6 percent), that found the green during the Super Bowl XXXIX media party here in February 2005. The closest shot, to a pin set back right, was 2 feet, 2 inches.

121: Yardage from the middle of the championship tee to the front of green.

146: Yardage from the middle of the championship tee to the back of green.

3,912: Square footage of the green. The course average is 4,500 square feet.

50,000: Amount of dirt, in cubic yards, that was removed to create the island green during construction of the course in the early 1980s.

120,000: Number of balls hit in the water during the course of a year, an average of more than three balls per player based on the average of 40,000 rounds played per year on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course. TPC Sawgrass superintendent Fred Klauk says that number is skewed because some players hit as many as a dozen balls into the water.

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