The Players Championship and TPC Sawgrass are synonymous with one another as an exciting, challenging test for the world's best golfers.

The Stadium Course underwent some renovations this year. The bunkers and greens had work done, and the par-4 12th hole was morphed into a driveable hole with water just left of the green.

While the course itself is thrilling to watch the game's elite maneuver around, there are a few spots pros would like to see refined.

"I think 12 is a fun hole," Sergio Garcia said after carding a final-round 6-over 78. "If they don't want to level off a little bit that left side, I don't know, it needs like maybe a couple yards of semi-rough. So if you hit a good shot — for example, today I hit a great drive, and if my ball goes — my ball was — it landed probably three, four yards right of the pin with a cut, and it finished probably about two yards left of it. If it goes two more yards farther left, it probably goes in the water, and I hit a great shot.

"So that's probably something they can tweak a little bit. I guess it's the first year, and they're probably going to wait to see how everything reacted and stuff. But overall I think it's a fun option."

Adam Scott, who finished tied for sixth at 5 under while watching Si Woo Kim break his record as the youngest winner in tournament history, enjoys the course, but he also said the course presents a "hell of a test".

"Sometimes there's no bail-out area, there's no safe place, so it can certainly make you feel uncomfortable," Scott said. "I don't know what the best way to describe the golf course is. It's a hell of a test. It was kind of —  when it was built, it was his first stadium-style golf course; it was like a created golf course.

"I think that we're just going to have to figure out the best way to balance the green complexes with this kind of grass and run-offs and stuff. I think it was much more playable and user friendly with an overseed and bent greens with this kind of created mounding and severity of slope. They have tried to soften a lot of the slope, or they have had to soften a lot of slope on the greens and they have done a nice job at that, but I think they have to look at the areas around the greens to see how best to have a good challenge out there."

Phil Mickelson, who made the cut despite opting against playing a practice round, enjoyed the new-look 12th hole for the most part. But like Garcia, he thought the sharp runoff towards the water was a bit extreme.

"I think that there's always a fine line between great and awful and as a designer you're always trying to find that and it comes out to the nuances and subtleties and I think that, I thought 95 percent of the new hole on 12 was really good, I really liked a lot of it," Mickelson said after his final round. "But the one thing that will keep me from going for it a lot is the area of the bunker and the front edge of the green, the way takes off into the water.

"What's uncomfortable about that is that you always like a hard edge, you always like as a player knowing that if you are right of this tree line or left of this tree or whatever, you know the ball's okay."

It will be interesting to see if TPC Sawgrass will adjust to the players, or if the players will have to find away to figure out the sharp edge left of No. 12's green by experience. 

The 12th hole was certainly more appealing this year than the blind second shot it used to present. But the players have a point, if a mark is missed by a yard or two the penalty shouldn't be a ball in the water. Course officials may have to figure out a way to make going for the green off the tee more enticing.