WATCH: Mark Hubbard gets a bad break at Pinehurst No 2

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The greens at Pinehurst No 2 were unforgiving and provided some incredibly bad breaks.

Mark Hubbard must have thought he was going to be in good shape with his shot throwing a yard or so from the hole and going through it.

Inches from the putt, the ball caught and swung on the third bounce and back right off the front of the green.

Disbelief is written on his face.

Donald Ross had no prior experience designing golf courses when founder James Walker Tufts invited him to Pinehurst.

He intended to become the first professional golfer in the county, but Tufts quickly hired him to play Pinehurst's first four courses.

That was a turning point in golf history.

Drawing inspiration from his childhood days spent playing links in Dornoch, Scotland, Ross developed his signature green.

He was a meticulous person who took great care to ensure that every curve and hill was to his satisfaction. All his huts look like they were created by nature rather than built at all.

“If you use a line and a square to create a basement, the result is sure to be artificial and annoying. It is easy to break all the lines and avoid such a sad result. “Man cannot do in a few days what nature took years to accomplish,” said Ross.

“Pinehurst was a pioneer in American golf,” Ross emphasized. “Although golf was played in a few places before the founding of Pinehurst, it was here in these mountains that the first major national golf movement was started. Men come here, take a few golf lessons, buy a few clubs and go and set up clubs.”