How it played: Harder than a diamond, that’s how. Always a stout finish, No. 18 was made even tougher by late-afternoon winds that shredded the field. The hole played a total of 55-over par compared to +29 for the second-hardest hole, the par-3 fourth. More bogeys and higher numbers (47) than pars (46) tell the story of Friday’s carnage.
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