A few years ago, Blackhawk Golf Club (Edmonton, AB) hosted a friendly event featuring Peter Jacobsen, Craig Stadler, Fred Couples and Stephen Ames.
Blackhawk was my first job working with Rod Whitman.
Whitman and I were inside the ropes following the foursome. When we got up to the first fairway, Rod noticed the flag cut at a very difficult spot back-right -- atop a small plateau, on the heavily contoured green, with a rise in front and a steep fall-off behind.
He says to me, something like: "This is suppose to be a fun day, to showcase the golf course to prospective members... why would they put the hole there?!"
Just then, Stadler stands over about an 80-yarder to the flag. He plays one of the coolest shots I've ever seen -- a head-high screamer that pitches just short of the rise, skips up the slope, then puts the brakes on about 5-6 inches from the cup!
Whitman and I could only look at each other and laugh