It’s home of the PGA Championship and boasts a par-72, 7,215-yard layout designed by the renowned Pete Dye.

The course’s infamous “island hole” on No. 17 is probably the most treacherous par 3 in all of golf. Miss the green by a fraction and your ball is headed into the drink. It’s such a signature hole that NBC devotes 11 cameras to it during the PGA Championship.

The greens undulate like a sidewinder and bite like one too. Misread a putt, put too much oomph on it and you can find your ball rolling off.

The course is TPC Sawgrass in Pointe Vedra, Fla. and a couple of local junior golfers on Monday and Tuesday got the chance to test the formidable Stadium course in the Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour’s TPC Sawgrass Junior Classic.

Warren Central’s Parker Rutherford finished tied for fourth with a two-day total of 160, while St. Aloysius standout Chris Ingram finished 16th out of 32 entrants with a two-day total of 171.

The toughest part came for Rutherford on No. 16 on the final day, when he hit a nice, straight drive, but was unable to locate his ball. He was forced to take a penalty and finished with a triple-bogey and that kept him from mounting a serious charge for the title.

“It was the first time I’d ever played in a tournament when I didn’t have any birdies,” Rutherford said. “But everyone there was so nice and you could really sense the aura of that course on every hole.”

Despite the tough experience, both relished it.

“It was amazing,” Rutherford said. “There’s water on every hole. There’s trees on every hole. When you hit bad shots there, you just have to take your medicine. But it was a great expereince.”

Ingram, who has figured in St. Al’s near four-peat in the Class 1A state championships, was not prepared for the challenge that awaited him on the Stadium course, named because of the grass berms that form seats for fans for the course’s biggest event, the PGA Championship.

“I didn’t hit the ball well, at all,” Ingram said. “I definitely brought my D-game and that was the worst place I could think of to go without your A-game. The fairways were extra long, there was water everywhere and the greens have extreme undulation and were very difficult to read. But I feel so blessed. It was the most fun experience I’ve had playing golf.”

One aspect helping or harming their efforts were the greens, which the grounds crew were aerating and sanding during the tournament. The maintenance efforts slowed down the normally fast greens.

“Normally, the greens there are rated around 13s or 14s (stimp or speed rating),” Rutherford said. “With the aeration, they were more like 10s or 11s, which made it a little easier.”

As for the No. 17, it played as advertised. Ingram loved playing one of the most iconic holes in golf and will never forget the experience.

“My dad (Paul Ingram) kept joking with me I was destined to put one in the water,” Ingram said. “But I put it on the middle of the green, nice and dry, and that was all that mattered. Our caddy told us that they fish about 120,000 balls out of that lake a year. Glad I wasn’t one of them.”