Adoring fans call the Waste Management Phoenix Open the “Greatest Show on Grass.” We’re willing to bet it has something to do with the party-like atmosphere on the 16th hole. Surrounded on all sides by stadium seating, the 16th hole draws spectators who are there for a good time as much as they are there to see pros like Phil Mickelson and J.B. Holmes duke it out. In honor of the 2016 WM Phoenix Open golf tournament, we’re counting down the top five most memorable moments on the 16th hole:
5. 1988: Two years after winning the entire tournament, PGA TOUR professional Hal Sutton made the first hole-in-one on the 16th during the third round of the event. At that time, the tournament was known simply as the Phoenix Open.
4. 1995: A major step toward amplifying the Waste Management Phoenix Open’s party atmosphere, this is the year that the tournament’s first corporate skyboxes made their appearance along the 16th hole’s southern embankment. Skybox tickets on the 16th hole are the most in-demand of the entire golf event.
3. 2009: The “coliseum” takes shape as the 16th hole is completely surrounded by stands, making it the first golf hole of its kind on the PGA TOUR. The grandstands seat between 15,000 and 20,0000 spectators, and that’s not counting the corporate skyboxes!
2. 2000: Arizona State University students and golf fans officially tag the 16th hole as “The House that Phil Built” after former Sun Devil and two-time Phoenix Open Champion Phil Mickelson. Mickelson won the tournament in 1996, 2005 and 2013.
1. 1997: Tiger Woods hits the “shot heard ‘round the world” on the 16th hole when he sinks an ace. The event exposes the world to the fun and rowdy atmosphere of the Phoenix Open as its replayed on television over and over (and over – still, to this day!).
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