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Bear Trap wounds: Inside the numbers on PGA National's toughest stretch

It's annually one of the toughest stretches on the PGA Tour outside the majors, and this week it's back in the headlines.

The PGA Tour returns to Florida with the Honda Classic, and the famed "Bear Trap" will take center stage at PGA National. Comprising the 179-yard 15th, 434-yard 16th and 175-yard 17th holes, it's a disaster-laden trio where water lurks around every shot. As Jack Nicklaus described on a plaque that greets players walking off the 14th green, "It should be won or lost right here."

And often that has been the case. Time and again players' title aspirations have disappeared into the lakes that line the critical stretch, while Adam Scott famously won the Honda in 2016 despite making a quadruple bogey on the 15th hole during the third round.