Copper Creek Golf Club, 11th green
The wind through Copper Creek’s valley holes finishes at the 11th, and it’s a bumpy ride. The 209-yard tee shot plays across a shaggy ravine to a big surface surrounded by four deep pits of sand. And if that’s not enough, the green slopes hard from back to front. If the superintendent is in a cranky mood, he’ll stick the pin at the front, right where there’s a chance of hitting a steep slope and finishing in the bunker.

Glen Abbey Golf Club, 17th green
Since he first started designing courses in the early 1970s, Jack Nicklaus has laid out thousands of greens around the globe, but none have created as much buzz as the 17th at Glen Abbey. The 436-yard par four, which is lined with bunkers on both sides of the fairway, dips to a horseshoe-shaped green that’s nearly cut in half by sand. If players land on the front left side of the green, the sand makes it impossible to putt to a pin on the back half; during the Canadian Open, this has forced more than one pro to use his wedge on the green.

Rocky Crest Golf Club, eighth green
One of the prettiest holes in cottage country, the eighth is a 190-yard blast across a granite crevice to a green that seems to float on the edge of the forest. The beauty tends to blind golfers to the beastly nature of the green, which features a speedy roll from back to front, toward a grouping of deep bunkers atop a stony embankment.

Wooden Sticks, 17th green
The 17th is the spitting image of the devastating island green at the TPC at Sawgrass. Every two weeks, a few thousand balls are pulled out of the ponds. Not only do players have to clear the water, but they also cozy up to a pin tucked behind a small bunker, biting into a three-tiered green lined with railroad ties.