SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If you’ve been watching the WM Phoenix Open, you’ve in all probability observed the Beer Snake. You won’t have recognized that’s what you had been it, however 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 really did break up the Beer Snake.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper removes a beer-snake from followers on the sixteenth gap through 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 instances 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.
Tournament officers appear to be 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)
You may partially credit score Sam Ryder for this phenomenon.
After he made a hole-in-one on the sixteenth gap in 2022, a whole bunch of followers chucked their beer cans and aluminum bottles down, a lot 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 a substitute. Now, as a substitute of throwing, they’re stacking on the Phoenix Open.
Story initially appeared on GolfWeek