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The organizers of the waste management of this week Phoenix Open have introduced measures that they pray will help avoid any rehearsal of shameful scenes that shocked the game last year. However, there are fears that the reaction is not strict enough.
The judgment of the PGA Tour, which broke its own record for the greatest attendance of golf, has set a brand in sport for bad driving, with 54 remarkable fans arrested and nearly 300 expelled while TPC Scottsdale went down to almost anarchy. Saturday disorder has passed beyond debauchery, which led to the closure of the doors, the holders of tickets waiting outside and the sales of alcohol, while security had trouble containing the Chaotic anarchy.
Social media videos of extreme intoxication and at least two fights that break out quickly have become viral. A woman who fell from a platform on the infamous “Hole du stadium” 16th was transported to hospital overnight. Another participant spent the night in the cells after jumping the naked torso strings and jumped in a Greenside bunker before making “snow angels” in the sand.
But the organizers of Scottsdale are now ready to repress these obscenities. Members of the galleries were represented by urinating outdoors and others were transported in ambulances after having passed into intoxication.
Through this, all the players were heckled and mistreated, with Zach Johnson, the captain of the Ryder Cup 2023, declaring that the promoters “should be embarrassed”.
Even the Canadian Nick Taylor, the possible champion, said that “bad behavior must be cut”, but after the decades of the atmosphere, it was not sure that it would be possible. “I think the cat is probably out of the bag,” he said. “I don’t know how much they can change and I don’t know how they would do it again to be honest.”
Without a doubt, the Thunderbirds – The body responsible for the general management of what was called the Phoenix Open – want to keep the title of the event as the best followed tournament of the game and they could still obtain 700,000 through the turnstiles for the week. The third round should peak above 200,000.
The charitable foundation, which underlines that it has collected more than $ 200 million since its creation 88 years ago, is proud of its reputation for being the most refined tournament in the circuit and has been so long Vailling in the credit to be a refreshing change for the traditionally stifled golf golf the atmospheres.
Scheffler: “It’s fun to live”
However, even when he was admired, the “open waste” was less like the old course and more like the new den, and there were players who warned that what was once good humor rejoicing would end up doing boil in ugly. “It was inevitable that it turns into a show —“, said a Byeong-Hun, the clever South Korean.
This was undoubtedly the case 12 months ago, with Billy out of pearl, who told a group of spectators to “close hell”, establishing an urgent contact with the organizers shortly after the last lap.
“I love a little joke from front to back, and I have no problem with that, but there is a point where he crossed a line, and he has crossed the line in recent years,” said outside . “People were getting out and thought they can just say what they want [to the players]And they think this is the subject of the golf tournament.
“As players, we finally said enough, and we expressed our frustration a little more. Our message was to brake it. Large names, like Scottie Scheffler World n ° 1, clearly believe that the organizers have managed to respond to the Ultimatum – the event of 7.5 million pounds Sterling which begins Thursday has a good distribution.
“It is a unique test because not only do you fight against the course, but there can be a fairly hectic crowd,” said Scheffler on Wednesday. “This is something that we do not see throughout the year, but it’s really fun to come here and experience it.”
In all honesty, the weather did not help last year, while the showers transform the bridges into mudslides, whose yobs have duly enjoyed it. And the problems at the doors have led supporters to flow, uncontrolled. The favorite of the crowd, Rickie Fowler, labeled him “the perfect storm” and expressed his hope that the officials would not pass over their reaction. It seems that they realized the wish of the 2019 champion.
2025: “You launch, you go”
Although there have been calls to limit alcohol sales at least, Thunderbirds resisted this option and rather focused on improving the flow of spectators. A new entry has been created and the arteries have expanded. A only digital policy on general admission tickets which obliges fans to sign “driving codes” has also been implemented. Anyone who breaks down the rules has been promised from a “zero tolerance” response.
“We always have a heavy pd [police department] Presence, they will be very visible this year, and if the fans cross this line, they will be deleted, “said Matt Mooney, director of the tournament.
Panels have been displayed in the big stands, indicating “not to launch items on the course”, as well as the slogan “you launch, you go”, in response to the 16th beer shower in any case in a .
“Our general admission fans will have to click on a code of conduct of the code and we will have a zero tolerance policy for people who cross these procedures,” added Mooney.
“Unfortunately, there is a small segment of our society which wants to create these viral moments and it is at the expense of the event, to the detriment of other fans and especially the athletes themselves.”
Mooney is aware that the PGA Tour will look closely and could implement its own draconian overhaul if it does not believe that the inconvenient feast has been sufficiently cleaned.
With increasing concerns that the Ryder Cup in New York could also be unleashed by unruly behavior, Luke Donald, the captain of Europe, is not in this week. The former world n ° 1 played last year and commented jokingly, but with a laudable forecast: “It will give me a taste of what it could be at Bethpage.”
