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Twenty-four of our top bucket-list holes in all of tournament golf

3rd hole, Oakmont

Par 4, 426 yards

Henrik Stenson plays out of the Church Pews on the third hole during the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club on June 14, 2016. (Photo: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Oakmont’s famous church-pew bunkers come into play on Nos. 3 and 4. The bunkers are aptly named because 12 grassy berms inside a massive sand hazard look like pews in a church. According to the USGA, special rakes were once used for the church pew bunkers at Oakmont, making deep furrows in the sand, but that practice stopped with the 1962 U.S. Open.

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