Over the past quarter-century, the 16th has cemented its reputation as "the greatest party on grass." This is golf at its Happiest Gilmore.īefore players enter the Coliseum through a tunnel from the 15th green, they're greeted by a cheerful sign on the facade that reads "Welcome to the Loudest Hole on Earth," but it feels more like a warning. It's a total anomaly on the PGA Tour, the one place where golf's whispered tones and dignified applause get flushed right down the port-a-potty, replaced by undignified trolling and ambitious cosplay. THE 16TH HOLE at the Waste Management, which really is what locals call this tournament, that or the WM, is like an oasis of Coors Light in the Desert Southwest. But here at the 16th hole at the Waste Management - and maybe only here at 16 - it'd feel wrong if someone didn't streak. So yes, streaking is wrong, let's be clear about that. All the way down the 17th fairway, halfway down 18, then jumped into the pond and enjoyed a brief refreshing swim, danced on the giant WM logo in the water and then finally, when he was good and ready, he surrendered to the authorities. Finally one security guard snapped out of his stupor, but the streaker juked past him and into the players' tunnel to the 17th hole, where we all assumed he got pancaked by the Scottsdale Police.Įxcept, of course, no one outside the Coliseum knew what he'd just done, and the fact is that a dude in a Speedo kind of blends in around this particular golf hole. He dropped it low, brought it back, dropped it low, brought it back. Already he'd defied the odds, but then he grabbed the pin from the hole and performed a kind of lap dance with no lap. He emerged Friday from somewhere near the tee box, nude except for a Speedo, with "19TH HOLE" painted on his back and an arrow pointing downward, and then he made a beeline straight down the middle of the fairway like he'd been smacked with a 9 iron through the manicured cactus garden, 180 yards to the cup. That being said, sometimes a legend comes along who pulls off a marathon streak so improbable, so filled with performative flourishes and so in keeping with the whole sloshy drunken gestalt of its place - the 16th hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the only fully enclosed hole on the PGA Tour, aka the Coliseum - that we are reminded why rules are meant to be broken. It's boorish, infantile, and it always ends badly. STREAKING IS WRONG - let's be clear about that up front. bananas - at the most outrageous hole in golf You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĪ wild weekend - including Minions vs.
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