What is the famous hole at the Waste Management Open?

The 16th Hole
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What is the loudest golf tournament?

Waste Management Phoenix Open
The Waste Management Phoenix Open is known for its raucous atmosphere and is the best attended golf event in the world. The tournament routinely draws crowds over 150,000-200,000 on any given day.

Which hole is the stadium hole at TPC Scottsdale?

par-3 16th hole
The par-3 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale is the most iconic hole on the Stadium Course at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

How many Hole in One does Tiger Woods have?

20 holes-in-one
Woods has 20 holes-in-one, although, perhaps surprisingly, only three of those came on the PGA Tour. Even more strangely, those came in three successive years, way back in the 1990s. The first of Woods’ PGA Tour aces came in the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open in his debut appearance as a professional.

What do they call the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open?

The Coliseum
The most popular location for spectators is the par-3 16th hole, nicknamed “The Coliseum.” (33.64°N 111.91°W) One of the shortest holes on tour at 162 yards (148 m), it is enclosed by a temporary 20,000-seat grandstand.

What is the 16th hole at Phoenix Open?

The 16th hole, which is the beginning of a unique set of final three holes, is like no other. On the third-to-last-hole, grandstands are set up not one, not two, but three levels high around most of the hole, with one-level grandstands on the back side of the green to the right.

Why is the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale so famous?

16 is, of course, much more than a golf hole during tournament week. Think of it as a medium-length par 3, a corporate outing, the loudest spectacle in golf and a raging kegger all in one. The party atmosphere is legendary.

Why is the WM open so loud?

This is where eardrums take a pounding even on the first day of tournament week — 18,154 came through the gates on Monday — and Richter scales are triggered by the mass of humanity that descends on the 7,266-yard course that rambles through the 240-acre property.

What’s so special about hole 16?

It is also known as “The Loudest Hole in Golf”. The 16th hole is the shortest hole on the Stadium Course at only 163 yards from the Black Championship tees. The tee is slightly elevated and the green is guarded by three bunkers. Hal Sutton scored the first hole in one in 1988.