A par 5 always has a touring pro giddy with anticipation. It's a chance for a birdie, a chance for a move up the leaderboard.

In the 1996 PGA Championship at Valhalla, the par-5 seventh hole rewarded some players and punished others, just as any good par 5 should do. The hole played at 605 yards in 1996, and you had to take the long way around to the right. The island fairway to the left was used for galleries, but this time it will be in play.

In the third round, Phil Mickelson used the seventh to move up the leaderboard with a birdie, though he made it the hard way. His second shot came to rest on an embankment, from where he used the magic of his windmill wedge shot to get the ball to within a foot of the hole.

In the final round, the seventh became the undoing of Kentucky left-hander Ross Cochran, who had a two-shot lead after a brilliant 65 in the third round. Cochran was shaky starting the fourth round and lost his grip on the leader board altogether when he came to the seventh. His third shot came to rest in a difficult lie in a green-side bunker and he needed two attempts to get the ball out. His final round of 77 pushed him down into a tie for 17th, and the seventh, which promised a birdie, instead produced the fatal double-bogey.

But winner Mark Brooks found seven to be a lucky number when his second shot bounced off a gravel path into a position from where he could get up and down for a birdie.