SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If you’ve been watching the WM Phoenix Open, you’ve in all probability seen the Beer Snake. You may not have recognized that’s what you have been it, nevertheless it’s actual.
And it’s spectacular.
As you may think, beer is consumed in giant portions on the well-known sixteenth gap at TPC Scottsdale, and the Beer Snake is one lengthy stack of the empty plastic beer cups.
When followers end off a cup of liquid refreshment, they begin stacking. The plastic cups are literally cool souvenirs with the WM Phoenix Open’s sixteenth gap emblem on them, however when the Beer Snake will get going, there’s no stopping the enjoyable.
In 2023, safety truly did break up the Beer Snake.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper removes a beer-snake from followers on the sixteenth gap in the course of the 2023 WM Phoenix Open. (Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic)
This yr, the Beer Snake is again. Golf Channel confirmed it in all its inexperienced glory a number of occasions Friday throughout second-round protection. Expect extra of the identical Saturday, at all times the loudest, wildest and most extremely attended day of the week.
Early within the week, it appeared event officers have been greater than OK with the Beer Snake in 2024, as there’s a can koozie on the market within the Fan Shop with the “Make the Snake” slogan on it.
Merchandise on the 2024 WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale. (Photo: Todd Kelly/Golfweek)
On Saturday, an officer with the Scottsdale Police Department was seen confiscating an extended stack of the inexperienced cups.
A Scottsdale police officer confiscates a Beer Snake from followers on the sixteenth gap in the course of the 2024 Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale. (Photo: Joe Rondone/The Arizona Republic)
You would possibly partially credit score Sam Ryder for this phenomenon.
After he made a hole-in-one on the sixteenth gap in 2022, lots of of followers chucked their beer cans and aluminum bottles down, lots of them half-full or extra, onto the par-3 gap.
The subsequent yr, event organizers, citing security issues, began serving beer in these plastic cups as an alternative. Now, as an alternative of throwing, they’re stacking on the Phoenix Open.
