This week's Players' Championship at Pete Dye's inimitable Sawgrass is unofficially known on the PGA Tour as "the fifth major." But for some tour players the event has become known for something else: as a place where they can score a trophy bass. A few years ago, as he approached the Par 5, 16th hole at Sawgrass during the tournament's first practice day, Briny Baird gazed at the three-acre pond that runs down its right-hand side. The sight proved irresistible. As other tour players worked out the kinks in their swings, Baird decided to take a few casts into the pond with a rod he stowed away in his bag for that purpose. "I moved off the green because I saw a ...