I've been watching all day and absolutely love the scene. I think if every tournament had just one hole that's similar then more people would tune into golf.

I could understand golf purists disliking it but just curious what others thought.

Watching Rahm on the 16th now in his Pat Tillman tribute shoes and Justin Thomas wearing a Lower Merion jersey is pretty cool to see.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/jon-rahm-is-paying-homage-to-pat-tillman-and-kobe-bryant-with-shoes-and-ball

Love it

Its grown on me TBH. used to hate it but now think it's fine for this one tourney. Players seem to like it too so whatever.

I think it's great on TV. I'll let you know how it is in person after tomorrow.

I'll be the old man yelling at a cloud, but I hate it. It's my least favorite tournament of the year, which is a shame because the course is great.

I get it's their thing, and lots of people like it. It's just not for me and I'm glad it's only one tournament a year.

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Bobby Petrino`s Neckbrace said:

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For me, one tournament with grandstands full of boorish behavior is enough.

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Concur. It's their thing. Let them keep it unique.

That it's the Waste Management Open and all the trash has been contained on the 16th seems apropos.

LOL

I like it for what it is, too much would get old.

The anticipation and lead up to that one hole makes it great if every course had a stadium style par 3 with crazies it would just be lost in the every week shuffle.

I did like the byron and hole 17 kinda had a similar feel just not as crazy obviously

It works there. Trying to force something like that into other tournaments would be lame. It would also inevitably lead to excessive regulations on behavior at these type of holes.

I can say I went. Never went in 16. We got out there about 9am yesterday and followed Woodland's group for the entire front 9. Didn't see a whole lot of golf after that, other than standing behind the 12th tee and watching Webb's HOI.

Once the crowd got there, it turned into a total **** show. I bet 90% of the people out there don't even like golf. We saw college guys having chugging contests with $13 beers and reloading. Insanity is the only way to describe it.

I'm glad I went, but probably won't ever go again.

I'd like to see the hole shortened to add to the excitement.

For those that have gone, is the level of decorum inside 16 ok for a 10 year old? My son really wants to go next year but I wonder what the language is like, etc with a gallery full of drunk golf fans....?

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BoDog said:

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For those that have gone, is the level of decorum inside 16 ok for a 10 year old? My son really wants to go next year but I wonder what the language is like, etc with a gallery full of drunk golf fans....?

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The entire golf course if full of drunk people, not drunk golf fans. The golf fans are the ones that aren't drunk laughing at the drunks.

The level of talent, however, is worth going once. I'm not sure I've ever seen that many hot women in one place at one time.

I feel awful for Tony

Good for Simpson. Birdied 17 and 18 twice to win. He seems to be putting better than he ever did with the belly putter.

Mr.Bond said:

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I feel awful for Tony

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Seems like a great dude and even better story for coming from nothing, but man, is there any other professional athlete out there right now struggling to break thru (in the W column) more than him? He has to figure it out.

He will win a major this year, and if I had to guess it'll be Augusta

I watched Tony's approach on 18 and declared him the winner on the way out the door for a super bowl party. I had no idea he didn't win until I just opened this thread.

Rewatching the end now to see what the hell happened!

As well as he played all week, he could not find a way to birdie the short 18th in 5 tries and it cost him the tournament

17 truly cost him the tournament. A par is essentially a bogey

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BoDog said:

For those that have gone, is the level of decorum inside 16 ok for a 10 year old? My son really wants to go next year but I wonder what the language is like, etc with a gallery full of drunk golf fans....?

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I would take the kid on Sunday, plenty of families walking around. I was there yesterday at 16, plenty to see still but you don't feel like you are at Spring Break. I also did 17 on Friday, which was probably a better experience IMO, more room to walk but just with older crowd (30y-50y). Saturday is the big day for partying and such, so we stayed away that day.